Outlook Failed to Connect to Exchange Server
This is a program between the non-Unicode language setting and the Exchange Server.
My computer is running Windows XP Professional. Under Regional and Language Options, I selected Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) as the language to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs. I used to run MS Office XP and upgraded to MS Office Small Business Edition 2003 few months ago. It has been fine for me to connect to the Exchange Server 5.5 in my office without trouble.
Recently (since 19 August), I encountered program to connect to the Exchange Server from Outlook 2003. As I have no problem to connect to the Exchange Server through other machine that with similar settings, I thought that was a problem with my machine. I then re-installed Windows, re-installed MS Office Small Business Edition 2003, downloaded all the updates from Microsoft, yet, I still failed to connect to the Exchange Server. Then, when I compare the different between my machine and the others, I discovered that it was the language settings caused the problem. I then modified the language settings to English (Australia) and restarted the machine. Immediately, Outlook 2003 connected to the Exchange Server without any trouble. If I change it back to Chinese, immediately Outlook failed to connect to the Exchange Server.
The questions are:
1. Would this problem caused by the Windows service pack 2?
2. Would that be the security settings that SP2 introduced?
3. (The most important question) How to solve the problem.
All your comments and advices are appreciated.