Cannot get mail, The connection to the server failed.

I have started receiving this message when opening the mail app on my iphone 5S (latest IOS 7.0.6) to specifically view my outlook.com mail. I tried deleting the account and re-adding it but the problem persists. Restarted the phone, tried everything, still no luck. I haven't changed any passwords recently, i also checked theoutlook.com live status page and there aren't any known issues. This problem has been ongoing for a couple of weeks now and is starting to get very frustrating, any help would be awesome!
P.s- i tried setting the same account on another iphone and the same problem happened, which leads me to belive the fault is with microsoft, any one know who i can contact for support?

I played around a bit and got it working.  For anyone else that is having this issue, here is how I solved it (for Exchange at least.  I didn't have trouble with Gmail)
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Exchange -> Exchange (under Accounts) -> Account (under Exchange)  -> clicked at end of username field -> Done (on account screen) -> Done (on Exchange screen)
So basically I changed nothing but I think this somehow re-associated the account with the iPad by hitting done.  Would love some more insight into why this worked, but it worked.

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