Connected Direct to Exchange

Hi,
I have been doing some checking on the availability of infinity in my area. According to the available data my area (Calder valley) is accepting orders for infinity. But the line checker tells me I can’t have it. Further investigation shows that the reason I can’t have it, is because I am connected directly to the exchange, not via a street cabinet.
Can anyone advise on a process I can initiate to enable my line to be infinity enabled??
Thanks
Peter

Icaras wrote:
No new exchanges are planned. Where did you hear this?
Spotted a news Item a while ago on TBB, it stated that some (NOT MANY) new exchanges were being planned to be Fibre only.
If I can find it I will post the details.
[edit] just done a google search for "Fibre only Telephone exchanges" and here are some details:
http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/news/2011/08/bt_to_trial_fibre_only_rural_broadband_exchange/
and another:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4774-fibre-only-exchange-fox-trial-candidate-locations-announced....
and another:
http://www.broadbandwatcher.co.uk/bt-selects-4-rural-locations-to-run-fibre-only-exchange-trials-329...
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Hi Martin,
Thanks for the reply.
Right now I have Apple mail and Outlook installed on my mac laptop and both the applications do not connect to the exchange server. Apple Mail simply does a long process when I give my credentials to create my account and then it gives an error saying it
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Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost)

Fresh installation of Exchange Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012.
Our first test account cannot access their email via Outlook but can access fine through OWA. The following message appears - "Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize
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If I turn off cached Exchange mode, setting the email account to not
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I cleared the appdata local Outlook folder and I tested on a new laptop that has never connected to Outlook, same error message on any system.
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No warning, error or critical messages in the eventlog, it's like the healthiest server alive.
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So it looks like a lot of people are having this issue and seeing how Exchange 2013 is still new (relatively to the world) there isn't much data around to answer this. I've spend ALOT of time trying to figure this out.
Here is the answer. :) - No I don't know all but I'm going to try to give you the most reasonable answer to this issue, in a most logical way.
First thing I did when I was troubleshooting this issue is that I ignored Martina Miskovic's suggestion for Step4 http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj218640(EXCHG.150)because it didn't make sense to me because I was trying to connect
Outlook not outside the LAN but actually inside. However, Martina's suggestion does fix the issue if it's applied in the correct context.
This is where the plot thickens (it's stew). She failed to mention that things like SSL (which I configure practically useless - anyone who ever worked in a business environment where the owner pretty much trusts anyone in the company, otherwise they don't
work there - very good business practice in my eyes btw, can confirm that...) are some sort of fetish with Microsoft lately. Exchange 2013 was no exception.
In exchange 2003, exchange 2007 and exchange 2010 - you could install it and then go to outlook and set it up. And when outlook manual Microsoft Exchange profile would ask you for server name, you would give it and give the name of the person who you setting
up - as long as machine is on the domain, not much more is needed. IT JUST WORKS! :) What a concept, if the person already on premises of the business - GIVE HIM ACCESS. I guess that was too logical for Microsoft. Now if you're off premises you can use things
like OutlookAnywhere - which I might add had their place under that scenario.
In Exchange 2013, the world changed. Ofcourse Microsoft doesn't feel like telling it in a plain english to people - I'm sure there is an article somewhere but I didn't find it. Exchange 2013 does not support direct configuration of Outlook like all of it's
previous versions. Did you jaw drop? Mine did when I realized it. So now when you are asked for your server name in manual outlook set up and you give it Exchange2013.yourdomain.local - it says cannot connect to it. This happens because ALL - INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL connection are now handled via OutlookAnywhere. You can't even disable that feature and have it function the reasonable way.
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but it didn't work that way for me. When I configured the external address different from the internal - it didn't work. So I strongly suggest you get it working with the same internal address first and then ponder how you want to make it work for the outside
users.
Now that you have this set up you have to go to virtual directories and configure the external and internal address there - this is actually what the Step 4 that Martina was refering to has you do.
Both external and internal address are now the same and you think you can configure your outlook manually - think again. One of the most lovely features of Outlook Anywhere, and the reason why I had never used it in the past is that it requires a TRUSTED
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See so it's not that exchange 2013 requires a trusted certificate - it's that exchange 2013 lacks the feature that was there since Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5.
So it's time for you to install an Active Direction Certificate Authority. Refer to this wonderful article for exact steps - http://careexchange.in/how-to-install-certificate-authority-on-windows-server-2012/
Now even after you do that - it won't work because you have to add the base private key certificate, which you can download now from your internal certsrv site, to Default Domain Policy (AND yes some people claim NEVER mess with the Default Domain Policy,
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This is the moment of ZEN! :) Do you feel the excitement? After all it is your first time. Before we get too excited lets first request and then install the certificate to actual Exchange via the gui and assign it to all the services you can (IIS, SMTP and
there is a 3rd - I forgot, but you get the idea).
Now go to your client machine where you have the outlook open, browse to your exchange server via https://exchang2013/ in IE and if you don't get any certificate errors - it's good. If you do run on hte client and the server: gpupdate /force This will refresh
the policy. Don't try to manually install the certificate from Exchange's website on the client. If you wanna do something manually to it to the base certificate from the private key but if you added it to the domain policy you shouldn't have to do it.
Basically the idea is to make sure you have CA and that CA allows you to browse to exchange and you get no cert error and you can look at the cert and see that's from a domain CA.
NOW, you can configure your outlook. EASY grasshoppa - not the manual way. WHY? Cause the automatic way will now work. :) Let it discover that exachange and populate it all - and tell you I'm happy! :)
Open Outlook - BOOM! It works... Was it as good for you as it was for me?
You may ask, why can't I just configure it by manual - you CAN. It's just a nightmare. Go ahead and open the settings of the account that got auto configed... How do you like that server name? It should read something like [email protected]
and if you go to advanced and then connection tab - you'll see Outlook Anywhere is checked as well. Look at the settings - there is the name of the server, FQDN I might add. It's there in 2 places and one has that Mtdd-something:Exchange2013.yourdomain.local.
So what is that GUID in the server name and where does it come from. It's the identity of the user's mailbox so for every user that setting will be different but you can figure it out via the console on the Exchange server itself - if you wish.
Also a note, if your SSL certs have any trouble - it will just act like outlook can't connect to the exchange server even though it just declines the connection cause the cert/cert authority is not trusted.
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SENSE MICROSOFT! ...and you have to manage certs... and the only place where you gonna find the name of the server is inside the d*** Outlook Anywhere settings in the config tab, un it's own config button - CAN WE PUT THE CONFIG ANY FURTHER!
Frustrating beyond reason - that should be Exchange's new slogan...
Hope this will help people in the future and won't get delete because it's bad PR for Microsoft.
PS
ALSO if you want to pick a fight with me about how SSL is more secure... I don't wanna hear it - go somewhere else...

Cannot connect to an Exchange account in Outlook 2013 using "Microsoft Exchange Server or Compatible Service"

Dear All,
I cannot connect to my Exchange account in Outlook 2013 using "Microsoft Exchange Server or Compatible Service".
First I would like to present my network environment, I have 4 physical servers;
The first one is holding the Domain Controller 1, IP@: 192.168.1.10
The second server is holding the additional Domain Controller which it is DC2, IP@: 192.168.1.11
The third server is holding the Exchange 2013 Mailbox, IP@: 192.168.1.15
And the last server is holding the Exchange 2013 CAS-HT, IP@: 192.168.1.16
I am doing the steps below:
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2-entering the account name: [email protected]
3-Go to "More Settings" > "Connection" > "Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP" > and entering the "Exchange Proxy Settings"
4-type the exchange CAS Server URL, https://192.168.1.16
5-Check the "Connect using SSL Only"
6-Authentication Settings: "NTLM Authentication", and pressing Apply
7-When I press the "Check Name" button, a message occurred> "The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action".
8-I go back to the "Exchange Proxy Settings" and I Uncheck the "Connect using SSL Only" and pressing Apply
9-i press the "Check Name" Button, a small window occurred to enter a Username and Password, so I enter the Administrator username and the administrator password and pressing "OK", but nothing is changed, I tried to enter my
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I appreciate you kind assistance.

Hi,
To narrow down the cause, I’d like to recommend the following troubleshooting:
1. Try to login the test account through OWA.
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3. Check the result of directly accessing the following URL:
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How can I tell if my line is direct to exchange?

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I have a bt phone line but am with another broaband provider. Recently, I discovered that I would not be eligible to receive BT infinity if my line is connected directly to the exchange (Chelsea) and not via a cabinet.
Some time ago, a Bt Openreach engineer informed me that my line went straight to the exchange. Is there anyway I could find out if this is the case? (I spent some time on the phone with Bt but they said that althought the information was probably somewhere in the system, they did not know how to access it )

hi mate there is no way i know you can tell this i think its a load of **bleep** people who do have direct lines can get fiber bb but then again you get 15 odd meg so a fast connection i think bt will one day move direct lines on to a cab to allow you to get the higher speeds

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I have today discovered that my home line is connected direct to the exchange, not via a street cabinet.
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Infinity is fibre to the nearest cabinet and copper from there to you but copper can only be upo to a certain length
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My exchange Brundall EABRU has recently gone live on FTTC but I still cannot order Infinity.
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The rollout of fibre broadband (FTTC or FTTP/H) is being planned, managed and done by Openreach for all communication provider/ISP. BT Retail (a communication provider/ISP) has nothing to do with the rollout and planning of fibre broadband.
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Please bear in mind that in some cases it may not be possible to provide FTTC broadband in areas due to:
• Your phone line may be connected directly to the telephone exchange and not to a local street cabinet - (Exchange Only Line [EO] )
• Your line may be too far from the local street cabinet to have a stable FTTC broadband service such as BT Infinity service.
• Your local street cabinet may not be suitable for fibre optic cables.
• We haven't yet got the council's planning permission to do the necessary work at your local street cabinet.
• Your home may not be suitable for fibre optic cables.
• Your landlord may not have agreed to the fibre infrastructure being provided in your building (for example if you live in a flat).
There are different stages to the development of the fibre infrastructure in the UK.
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This video explains more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p0qN5XHuI5Q
Also check the Openreach "Power of Fibre" website: http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/the-big-build/the-power-of-fibre.aspx
You can keep checking the BT Wholesale Database and BT Infinity website for upto date information as these are updated regularly.
The openreach When and Where website is: http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
**The Fibre-Optic Broadband Rollout is being managed and done by Openreach for all communication providers/ISPs.
BT Retail (your communication provider/ISP) has nothing to do with the rollout of fibre broadband.**
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Office 2013 - The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete.

Hi Team,
Just purchased and downloaded Office Home Premium and having trouble with Outlook. For what ever reason, I am unable to create account/add my email address ([email protected]) into the program. Through the set-up process it continuously
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Hello,
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Thanks,
Simon Wu
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I don't know what you mean by "In Exchange 2013, most of the internal and external client becomes to use Outlook Anywhere(RPC over
http).
Please make sure the autodiscover.domain.com is included in
the certificate."
Can you please walk me through this? Thank you.

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Things will be fine since the AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme will automatically search for a good wireless channel. If you assign a separate name for the wireless network, then devices will need to log in separately to this network. The extending device will need to be configured in Bridge Mode.
My suggestion would be to configure what is known as a "roaming" network in your question #2. In this case, you would assign the same wireless network name, security and password settings to the extending device and configure it in Bridge Mode.
The advantage to #2 is that you will be able to walk your laptop from a location near the Time Capsule and as you move close to the extending device, the laptop will automatically switch to pick up the stronger signal from the extending AirPort.
You are actually creating a separate network in #2, so you have the advantage of maximum bandwidth for both the TC network and the AirPort network.
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I'm assuming that you are asking about an Ethernet switch here, correct? The AirPort Express or AirPort Extreme can connect to the Ethernet switch, or directly back to a LAN port on the Time Capsule, whichever is easier to setup.
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Connecting the remote device using Ethernet is by far the best way to extend a wireless network because it maintains maximum bandwidth on the network. This is the way that any good commercial network is designed.
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Macbook pro running 10.7.5 Lion printer HP photosmart 7960 . connected direct by USB.

My macbook pro will suddenly not recognise my printer that I have been using for 3 yrs every thing in connection with the printer is greyed out and disabled . I have been into system information and cannot find it there
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Hi @edwartd
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Disconnect the USB cable from the computer.
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Click the Apple icon (   ), and then click System Preferences.
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Type the correct Name and Password.
Click OK to reset the printing system. The Print & Fax dialog box shows no printer selected
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Double-click Disk Utility.
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The action cannot be completed. the connection to microsoft exchange is unavailable

Hi dear.
We have exchange 2013 and we want auto configure outlook 2007,2010 and 2013. In first time when we are setup exchange 2013 we can auto
configure outlook. But I don’t know now we cannot configure outlook. I think when we make some change in exchange certificate ( created by exchange in first time ) and after that we cannot configure outlook. Just we can set up pop3 and imap
for outlook. Now we have outlook with pop3 and outlook web app ( OWA ) and we don’t have problem with them, but we want our client see the all contact list in outlook. When we want configure outlook with Microsoft exchange server we get the error “
the action cannot be completed. the connection to Microsoft exchange is unavailable “.please help me. I don’t know how I solve the problem.

hi.
ok. this is the out put of autodiscover url in address bar :
"" <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <Autodiscover
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/responseschema/2006">
- <Response>
- <Error Time="10:30:23.5154338"
Id="3405091169">
<ErrorCode>600</ErrorCode>
<Message>Invalid Request</Message>
<DebugData
/>
</Error>
</Response>
</Autodiscover> ""
thanks for your help.
If it returns error code 600, your autodiscover service should be accessible in Exchange server. Please restart Microsoft Exchange Address Book service in Exchange server, then create a new Outlook profile in Outlook to have a try.

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