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Posted on: June 21st, 2009 by Famous Phil

Lets introduce this post with a tiny experience.  I am a system administrator for my own network and my own computers.  After installing Exchange, naturally I wanted to setup outlook 2007 to connect to my exchange server.  Unfortunately, I had no clue what the correct settings were at the time and I kept getting an error that my settings were incorrect and contact my administrator for assistance.  Unfortunately, I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR. What is even more sad, I am not only the administrator to my own computer, but I am also the administrator of my Exchange Server.  Therefore, Microsoft Windows suggests that I should look at myself for help :P

I’ve debated how I can help myself as the computer kindly suggests to me.  I suppose I could keep doing stuff like most admins do until it works, but I didn’t really feel like ruining my computer.  Therefore, I googled the problem and eventually found some documentation that solved the problem.  As always, when I come up with a solution, I always post it on AdminReferenceRead the rest of this entry »

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