HowTo Setup Outlook with OpenChange Server¶

In this document, we assume you have successfully setup OpenChange server and followed HowTo_Setup_OpenChange_Client guide against OpenChange server.

If you have successfully completed tasks described in this guides, you are now ready to test OpenChange server with Microsoft Outlook.

Prerequisites¶

resolving OpenChange server FQDN¶

If no additional operations have been performed on Samba4, the samba process should run with endpoint mapper and openchange server services only. It also means DNS configuration for Samba4 has not been installed yet. While it would be preferable to setup DNS for other usage but OpenChange server one, we will skip this step.

We will instead modify Windows hosts file:

1. On your windows workstation, edit %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts with wordpad
2. Add an entry for OpenChange server:
   

   10.254.0.103 server.openchange.local server
   

• Assuming 10.254.0.103 is the IP address where your OpenChange server is running
• Assuming server is the netbiosname defined in /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf
• Assuming openchange.local is the realm defined in /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf

Microsoft Outlook 2003¶

Create MAPI profile¶

1. Open the Control Panel and run the Mail applet
2. Click on Show Profiles
3. Click on Add... and specify a profile name. For example openchange
   
4. Tick Add new e-mail account radio box, click on Next
5. Tick Microsoft Exchange Server radio box, click on Next
6. Enter OpenChange server IP address
7. Do NOT tick Use Cached Exchange Mode box
8. Enter your OpenChange server account name
9. Click on More settings, a warning box should show up similarly to the output below
   
10. Click on OK, a windows with a General Tab should show up. Click on Cancel, a new windows should show up
11. Go to the Security pane
12. Tick the Always prompt for user name and password box
13. Click on OK
    
14. You will now be prompted for your credentials, otherwise click on Check Name button
15. If the process completed successfully, Microsoft Exchange server and User Name text fields should be underlined.
    
16. Make sure to select the openchange profile if Always use this profile radio box is ticked.

Congratulations! You can run Outlook and test how it behaves against OpenChange Server.

Microsoft Outlook 2007¶

Microsoft Outlook 2010¶