I'm having trouble setting up a Microsoft Exchange client on my home computer (yes, my work email). The problem is there is no option for a domain. Stepping through the prompts to setup a new email account, I enter name, email address, password, select manually configure, then next, select Microsoft Exchange, then next. Here I can enter the exchange server and user name but no option for the domain.

I set this up on my iPad with no problem. It asks for email address, server, domain and username. Trying to follow the same principle with Outlook but can't seem to get it. I tried combining the domain/username in the user name field but that did not work. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

Outlook 2007


Windows 7 home prem. 64-bit

You shouldn't need the domain. As long as you have the username and mail server, you should be fine.

Hmm, at the end of the setup process as it first tries to connect I get the "The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action." error. I can close it and try and open the exchange profile and get simply "The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action." At this point, it allows me to verify my server and user (which are correct) and click OK, then I get "Cannot open your default mail folders. The file C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outloo k1 is not an offline folder file".