As I already told you some days ago, I've bought the Office package. Full of anticipation to not get my mails anymore through the web interface but to just open my Outlook, I opened it and selected "Exchange" as mail server type. Obviously the biggest fault I could do :-D
After I entered all required information for connecting to our Exchange server, my Outlook told me that they couldn't be verified ... Pity ;-) ... but the best joke came after that: Our admin had a good advice for me: First create another account and then set up the Exchange account manually in the configuration menu ... said - tried - failed.
The problem: Outlook offered the following options after reopening it:
1.) Enter valid account information for the Exchange (see above: that didn't work)
2.) Cancel
So I clicked "Cancel" to enter an alternative mailing server as primary account ... but ... hmm ... obviously the "Cancel" button forced Outlook not to go back one step to choose another server but to close ... Hard luck. Outlook wanted me to enter valid data for an Exchange accoutn and NOTHING ELSE!
So I thought: There must be any way out and started searching my registry for the name of the Exchange server. I found it on two places. One of them was the browser history (from the web interface) - the other one was at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\<username>\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a
First first try was, who'd have guessed, to clear that value... didn't work. So I simply deleted the whole key ... FAULT :-D!
After I started Outlook again, I got the following miraculous message:
(You don't have the current version of the Microsoft Exchange-Message service. Please Create an profile first.)
Hmm ... ok - attempt failed - it was late - I haven't had a backup ... so: repair Outlook ... didn't work - deinstall Outlook and install it again - also didn't work ...
Slowly I got a little bit frustrated... Last try: Got the "work"-laptop and searched the key on it (To go the save way I deleted the whole <username>-key and replaced it with the information from the laptop) ... And when I just were destroying my new system, I also copied the whole profile-directory from the Vista directory:
DRIVE:\USER\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
En voila - my Outlook started the first time - the Exchange was already configured and all of my mails were already available (only the mails from the shared folders were missing) - and now I can finally write my mails at home :-D.