Hi there,
I am trying to set up my Outlook desktop client. It's an Office 365 environment (Enterprise E1 plan) and I am running Windows 10.
I opened the Outlook desktop client, and after 20 minutes of it hanging there "searching for the mail server" I gave up and decided to manually enter the information into the client. I located the server address and all other settings in my old laptop.
I am sorry I cannot recall which server *type* I specified out of the three options - I believe Exchange server, since we have Exchange Online - but whatever it was, I take it it was wrong.
By some brilliant design, I am now stuck in a loop and cannot get out.
Note: I have already tried some unhelpful advice given on other questions posed to Office365 support about being stuck in this loop. There they advised to find my Mail settings in the Control Panel
and delete the user account. This has done nothing but change the loop I am in.
What happens? I open Outlook, and am told:
"The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."
I click OK, and get the Microsoft Exchange settings window which lists the server name (which cannot be changed) and the user name, which matches the settings in my old laptop. I click "Check
Name" and get "The name cannot be resolved. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."
I click OK on that and then try "OK" on the Microsoft Exchange settings window and I am told, "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders
cannot be opened. Your profile is not configured."
I am online, clearly, I am sending you this message now. All my other co-workers are using Exchange and I see my mail in the browser-based client.
Thanks in advance for any insight.