How To Create a New Profile in Outlook 2007
with Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP)

The following steps will help you setup an Outlook 2007 profile that uses https to connect with your mailbox at Exchange Hosting Service. The purpose of this configuration is to enable a full-featured Outlook 2007 connection to an Exchange server over the Internet, using an Internet service which includes a firewall.

Availability of Outlook 2007

If you don't already have Outlook 2007, download it using the same username and password that you use to access your email in OWA, from ftp://ftp.webville.net or www.webville.net/ftp/  

Setup

Use the following steps to add a new Outlook profile to your computer.

1. Right-click the Outlook icon in your start menu - or - In Windows XP, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. If the option to "Switch to Classic View" appears at the left, choose it. Double-click either the Mail or the Mail and Fax icon. The following dialog will appear.  

   

   

2. Do not click the E-mail Accounts button. Click the Show Profiles button. The following dialog will appear. If you have more than one profile, they will show up in a list here. 

    

   

3. Do not click the Properties button. Click the Add button. The following dialog will appear. Type a name for the new profile and press Enter or click Ok.

   

4. Click the check box next to Manually configure server settings and click Next.
   Auto Account Setup will work only if you're using Outlook 2007, your mailbox is on our Exchange 2007 mailbox server, and the DNS for your domain name is properly configured with the Autodiscover host name.

 



5. Do not choose Internet E-mail, choose Microsoft Exchange and click Next. 

    

   

6. This page is the heart of the matter. See illustration below. Enter the Exchange server name and your username. Your username (or a demo account username) will be provided to you by email.

   The Microsoft Exchange Server name to type is SHELLEY3.WEBVILLE.NET  

   Type the short version of your username, usually the first part of your email address, prior to the @ symbol.

    

   

7. Do not click the Check Name button. Click the More Settings button.

   Most Internet providers have firewalls, and that may become apparent at this step. If you are behind a firewall, your window may hang for a minute or so, while Outlook tries to connect to the server. It may return an error message to the effect that it could not connect to the server, as in the illustration. This is expected. Click OK. If you don't get this message, that's ok too, see step 9 below.

   

   

8. After clicking OK to the error message, the following dialog may appear.

   

   

9. If you get a dialog similar to the one shown above, click Cancel. An Exchange Server dialog like the one below will appear. Click the Connection tab page. 

    

   

10. Place a check next to Connect to my Exchange mailbox using HTTP. Click the Exchange Proxy Settings button. The following dialog will appear.

     

11. In the box labeled "Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange," type the following:
    
    shelley5.webville.net
     
    Both options, On fast networks... and On slow networks... should be checked. 
    
    Under Proxy authentication settings, click the drop down list and choose Basic Authentication. Click OK on the Exchange proxy settings dialog.

    

12. That should bring you back to the Email accounts window. If the server name and user name are not yet underlined, press the Check Name button. When the server name and mailbox name are underlined, they have passed the check name test and your configuration is good.

13. Make sure the option to Use Cached Exchange Mode is selected and click Next.

14. Click Finish to dismiss the congratulations page of the Wizard. You should see the dialog listing all your Outlook profiles, and the new one you just created should be listed there. Just below that list, don't neglect to select your new profile in the drop down list, so Outlook will use it when starting.

15. When starting Outlook with your new profile, it is important that your user name is entered correctly, as well as your password.

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