Hello,
I am migrating a domain from our current email host to Office 365. I'd like to setup Office 365 on my 17 PC's as an additional profile in Outlook before changing the MX records however need a server name to resolve to as DNS sends me to my current email provider even when using a server name of outlook.office365.com as a host address. This is post Office 365 upgrade so the Help and About path to server name (host address) is unavailable in OWA and the Office 365 test utility also resolves to my current mail host using DNS. Ideas?
This is what I am trying to do but in the new version of Office 365->
1. Get your mailbox host address by logging in to your Outlook Web App
1a. Once you're logged in, click on the "?" icon and then on "About"
1b. Copy your host address to Notepad for later use (It looks something like "db3prd0914.outlook.com/owa")
2. Shut down Outlook as it may not be running when you manually set up an Exchange account
2a. go to the "Control Panel" -> search for "Mail" and open it
2b. Click on "E-mail Accounts" and then on "E-mail Accounts..."
2c. Add a new e-mail account; click on manually set it up and hit next
2d. Tick Microsoft Exchange Server (should be ticked automatically) and hit next
2e. In step 1b you've retrieved your host adress. Paste the address in the Server text box without the "owa" and the trailing"/". Modify the address so that it looks like "db3prd0914.mailbox.outlook.com"
2f. Enter your username without the domain
2g. Make sure "Use Cached Exchange Mode" is checked and click on "More Settings"
2h. Go to the "Connection" tab and check "Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP" and click on "Exchange Proxy
Settings"
2i. Now paste the host address you've retrieved in step 1b again here without the "ova" and trailing "/".
2j. Check "Only connect to proxy servers that have this principal name in their certificate:" and type "msstd:outlook.com"
in the text box
2k. Check "On fast connections, connect HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP"
2l. Set the "Proxy authentication settings" to "Basic authentication" and hit OK twice
2m. Now click on "Check name" and log in using your username with domain and password and you should be good to go.