Setting up your work Outlook account for home use

Stat1c · 27 Nov 2011 at 21:10

Trying to set Outlook up on my laptop just now for home use. Web Outlook is limited as my company have an older exchange that doesn't facilitate searching on the web mode.

I'm trying to setup Outlook anyway and when I add our mail server it is just not liking it and not connecting to our exchange.

Do I possibly need to be already connected to my work's domain to get it to work? Would I need to connect via VPN????

EDIT - I've been looking online again and it appears you do need to be connected to the domain. For some reason I didn't think I would need VPN. Maybe I'm being stupid.

robinbredin · 27 Nov 2011 at 21:27

Have you tried downloading Outlook Connector

marc2003 · 27 Nov 2011 at 21:37

and what use would that be? that's so you can use outlook with hotmail. :/

@Stat1c, contact your work IT department. if they want to allow you to use outlook externally, they will help you set it up. you can't just guess or ask other people as it requires specialist configuration on their network kit that no one else is going to know about.

Stat1c · 27 Nov 2011 at 21:39

I am part of IT but obviously it would require the infrastructure guys to set it up? It doesn't really matter.

opethdisciple · 27 Nov 2011 at 22:46

There are only two ways this will work.

1. You use VPN, which will still need to be configured company side.
2. The company have enable outside connections to the mail sever. Again needs to be configured company side.

Easiest is probably VPN.

stoofa · 28 Nov 2011 at 00:29

We use "Outlook Anywhere" so any of our users can connect to our Exchange Servers through Outlook as long as they have an Internet connection - no need to VPN or connect to our domain.
Very useful feature and easy to setup - but needs to be done server side.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Nov 2011 at 10:56

It might not be enabled to work outside. Go ask your engineers for configurations.