I am trying to connect a netbook to my Exchange Server 2003 using an Outlook 2007 client on the netbook. The operating system for the server is SBS 2003, and that of the netbook is Windows 7 Starter.
When I open Outlook on the netbook, the dialog box saying that it is connecting to the server “mail.mycompany.com” and asking for the username and password continues to pop up without giving me an error until I just finally hit Cancel. Then it says: “The connection to Microsoft Exchange server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.”
I can connect to this server from this same netbook when I am in the office, but not from a remote location. I can also connect using Outlook Web Access and via iPhone for the same user. Not sure if I am missing something on the client setup or if more configuration needs to go to my server.
I have been using the Outlook Anywhere setup without SSL, using the same server name as the OWA server with NTLM Authentication.
I would appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thanks in advance.