Re: Outside Exchange Account

Thank you for your help. I went thru these steps and everything happened as
you indicated. However, it appears that the profle is still in affect and
running setup did not remove the Exchange profile from my workstation. I've
reviewed the registry and looked for any prf files that might be involved but
found nothing that I was sure was the answer.

Thanks again for your help.

"Owen Williams [SBS MVP]" wrote:

In article <277E7A57-A6B9-4BBB-9360-9460DBBC27CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

I have SBS 2003 running which includes Exchange. However, I am not using
Exchange at all. The Server installation was primarily an easy way to setup
WSS and SQL for development testing. I have stopped all of the Exchange
services on my local server.

I am running Outlook 2003 on my workstation, but there is no Exchange
account in the profile. I'm trying to connect to an Exchange server outside
of my network over the internet, but whenever I try and add the account to my
mail profile, it seems to always want to connect to my local network server
Exchange, even thought I enter the FQDN of the external server.

How can I connect to the external Exchange Server from Outlook? I'm
thinking that something was installed when I installed the SBS Client
software on my workstation that is causing it to only want to recognize the
local Exchange Server.

You are correct - a standard SBS setup autoconfigures an Outlook profile for
Exchange on the SBS.

Try this:

* Logon to the SBS.
* In Server Management, go to Client Computers.
* Click View Computer Settings.
* When the dialog box pops up, expand <your computer> | Client Setup
Configuration Options.
* If "Configure Outlook Profile Information" is listed, continue.
* Click Close, then Assign Applications to Client Computers.
* Click Next then select the computer(s) which you want to be able to connect
to the external Exchange server.
* Click Add then Next.
* On the Client Applications Page, click Advanced.
* Uncheck Outlook Profile Settings and click OK.
* Click Next, Next, Finish.
* Logoff the server.

* On the workstation(s), logoff then logon.
* Start | Control Panel | User Accounts | Mail
* In the Mail Setup dialog box, click [E-mail Accounts]
* Ensure "View or change existing e-mail accounts" is selected and click Next
* If there is a "Microsoft Exchange Server" under Name, select it and click
Remove

Now try adding your external Exchange account.

-- Owen Williams [SBS MVP]

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