How to Connect Microsoft Outlook 2003 to Exchange Server?

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    October 29th, 2013
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Summary:-Microsoft Exchange Server is a cloud email service designed to centralize your emails into a single database in the Microsoft cloud; its main benefit is to give you a sustainable business email. Once you add your Outlook account with Exchange, you can access the cloud database simultaneously. As a result, it reduces your maintenance cost and ensures your data is always: In this article, you will learn how to connect Outlook 2003 to Exchange Server. Before moving further, you should know the reasons behind connecting Outlook to the Exchange server. So, let’s start.

Reasons to Connect Microsoft Outlook with Exchange

Data is crucial for all, whether they are professionals or businesses. It’s important to have the right email security with top-notch features. These are a few reasons Microsoft Exchange Online is a frontrunner for a secure email to better protect your business’s data.

Benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server

  • Makes Your Life Easier
  • Accessible From Anywhere
  • User-Friendly
  • Shared Calendar
  • Cost Saving
  • Compliance
  • Protect Your Sensitive Data (Data Loss Prevention)
  • Keep Your Data in One Place
  • Active Email Protection
  • Cloud- on your terms

By seeing, the core reason is to manage all the Outlook items in one place as we know that Outlook is the most preferred email client used by the organizations. So, to avoid the chaos of managing thousands of mailbox items, we generally prefer to connect MS Outlook to the Exchange server.

Configure Exchange Account in MS Outlook 2003

Follow the steps given below to connect your Outlook 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server:

  1. Launch MS Outlook on your system. It will ask you to choose a Profile. Click on New, or create a new profile from Mail settings.
  2. Enter the profile name and click on OK.
  3. The “Email Accounts” window will appear on your screen. Select “Add a new email account” and click the Next button.
  4. Now select “Microsoft Exchange Server” and click on Next.
  5. Enter your Exchange Server Settings. For example: enter your “exchange server name” and “username (full email address).” Check Use Cached Exchange Mode box.
  6. Now click on the More Settings The “Microsoft Exchange Server” window will appear. Click on the Connection tab.
  7. Check the “Connect to my Exchange mailbox using HTTP” box and click on Exchange Proxy Settings.
  8. The “Exchange Proxy Settings” window will appear. Enter your Exchange Proxy server and check “Connect using SSL only.”
  9. Also, check “On fast networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP” and “On slow networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP.”
  10. Now choose Proxy authentication settings. Select Basic Authentication and click OK.
  11. Click on Apply > OK > Next > Finish.

For MS Outlook 2007

  1. First, click Account Settings from the Tools, select the Exchange account, and click Change.
  2. Now, click More Settings, and then click the Connection.
  3. After that, under Outlook Anywhere, select the Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP

4. Then, to specify a proxy server, click Exchange Proxy Settings.

  • Now you have to type the URL provided by your Exchange administrator.
  • If the Exchange administrator indicates you to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection, select the Connect using SSL only
  • If the Exchange administrator instructs you to do so, select the Only connect to proxy servers that have this principal name in their certificate check box, and then type must: followed by the URL provided by the administrator.

5. Below Proxy authentication settings, click Basic Authentication or NTLM Authentication as           instructed by your Exchange administrator.

6. Finally, click OK.

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Conclusion

The blog describes how to connect MS Outlook 2003 or 2007 to Microsoft Exchange Server. I have provided some techniques to set up Outlook for your Microsoft Exchange account manually. In addition, I have mentioned the reasons too. Hope it helps to resolve your query.

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