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can't connect to exchange 2003 with Outlook 2007 on WinXP SP2 -- says "microsoft exchange unavailable"

Asked by Xetroximyn in Outlook Groupware Software, Exchange Email Server, SBS Small Business Server

Tags: Office 2007, Exchange 2003, Win XP SP2

I work from home/remotely.... I have a PC onsite at my work that I remote to, and that I run outlook on....

I also run outlook on my home PC, and use hamachi to connect directly to the exchange server at my work....

After the server restart yesterday, my outlook at home never reconnected, even though my outlook at work reconnected fine.

So I tried restarting my home PC, and now everytime I try to open outlook I get

"microsoft exchange unavailable"

And then if I click "Work Offline" I get

"Cannot open your default e-mail folders" "The information store could not be opened"

And outlook closes right away.

I can't get it to open at all.

At home i have outlook 2007 on WinXP SP2.  

Any idea if this could somehow be related.... seems like it shouldnt be since the license problem is fixed, and I am still having this problem, but not sure if it could have triggered something...


p.s. hamachi is running fine -- I can ping the server -- access shares -- remote to it, etc -- but outlook just cant connect to exchange.... and I cant even open outlook to tinker with settings.

p.p.s.  Not sure if it has anything to do with it -- but problem with the server after restart, had to do with licenses getting messed up, and having to be restored. Here is a link to the question I posted about that, in case details are desired

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/SBS_Small_Business_Server/Q_24856306.html#a25704279

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Zones: Outlook Groupware Software, Exchange Email Server, SBS Small Business Server
Tags: Office 2007, Exchange 2003, Win XP SP2
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