How to Connect to a Company Exchange Server from Home

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Have you ever needed to access your corporate email while at home? Most corporations offer webmail interfaces for their employees to use when they're away from the office, but these interfaces are less functional than Outlook and normally don't contain your personal settings. You can access your corporate email from Outlook by changing a few settings on your email account. After these changes are made, you can view your mail just as if you were at work.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Outlook 2007 or later

Instructions

Change Account Settings

1. Open Microsoft Outlook and select "Tools" and then "Account Settings."

2. Click on your account in the Account Settings dialog box and select "Change."

3. Click "More Settings" in the Change E-mail Account dialog box.

4. Select the "Connection" tab in the Microsoft Exchange dialog box.

5. Check the "Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP" option and select "Exchange Proxy Settings."

6. Enter the mail server in the "Use this URL to connect to my proxy server for Exchange:" field (mail.company.com, for example).

7. Click "OK" and close all dialog boxes.

Tips & Warnings

• After applying these settings, you will be asked to enter your network credentials each time you open Outlook from outside your workplace.

• You can obtain your mail server information for Step 6 from your corporation's IT department.

References

• University of British Columbia: "Exchange - Setting Up Email (RPC over HTTPS) using Outlook 2007"