How To Configure Outlook 2007 For Exchange (Windows XP/Vista)

This article provides instructions for configuring Microsoft Outlook 2007 for use with Microsoft Exchange 2007 server from a computer that’s not part of the domain. Computers joined to the domain do not need to type login credentials for autodiscovery to find mailbox on exchange server.
Important note: you must update Office 2007 prior to configuring Outlook. The Outlook service pack 2 is highly recommended. Please remember to launch Microsoft Word 2007 prior to launching Outlook 2007!
These user domains are provisioned with an autodiscover domain name, i.e. autodiscover.domain.edu and autodiscover.domain.edu. Customers will find that their Outlook 2007 configuration is dramatically simplified and requires only entering an email address in the Outlook configuration screen.
Please follow these steps to configure Outlook 2007 from a computer that’s not part of the domain
Launch Outlook 2007.                                                                                                                          
  1. If Outlook has not been previously used, an Outlook 2007 Startup window will appear. If Outlook has been previously used, go to step 3.
  2. Click the Next button. Under E-mail Accounts, choose the Yes radio button. Go to step 7.
  3. Go to Tools > Account Settings
  4. Click on the E-mail tab.
  5. Click the New... button. The next screen is Choose E-mail Service.
  6. Choose the Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP radio button.
  7. Click the Next button. The next screen is Auto Account Setup.
  8. In the Your Name: field, enter your name as you wish it appear on outgoing messages.
  9. In the E-mail address field, enter your full Exchange email address, e.g.username@domain.edu
  10. In the Password: field, enter your email password.
  11. In the Retype Password: field, enter your email password again.
  12. Click the Next button. The next screen is Online search for your server settings...
    When Outlook connects to the server for the first time it will prompt you for your username and password at autodiscover.domain.com dialog box.
  13. In the User name: field, enter domain\username, making sure to include domain\ prior to your username
  14. In the Password: field, enter your email password.
  15. Click the OK button.
If Autodiscovery doesn’t locate your mailbox, configure Outlook manually using the steps below
  1. Enable the Manually configure server settings checkbox.
  2. Click the Next button. The next screen is Microsoft Exchange Settings.
  3. Click the More Settings button. The Microsoft Exchange option dialog will load.
  4. Click the Connection tab.
  5. Under Outlook Anywhere, ensure the Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP checkbox is enabled.
  6. Click the Exchange Proxy Settings button. The next screen is Microsoft Exchange Proxy Settings.
  7. In the Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange: field, enterr the server name.
  8.  Enable the Connect using SSL only checkbox is enabled.
  9. Ensure the On fast networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP and the On slow networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP checkboxes are enabled.
  10. Under Proxy authentication settings, select basic authentication
  11. Click the OK button.
  12. Click the Apply button. A dialog box will inform you that you must restart Outlook for these changes to take effect.
  13. Click the OK button.