No access to Exchange when at work, but works when not in the office??

wright_here

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Hi All,

I have an odd one. I am currently working for a company, using my own Laptop and they have provided me an email address. I have set up the new email account in outlook via their exchange server, however it will not connect when i am connected to their network.

However, it does work when I connect from home or outside the company. How can this be?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks
 
Have you spoke to their IT support?

I assume you connect to their network when on site and use your own internet at home? Do you use any kind of VPN when connecting externally?
 
Yes, spoken to their IT and they have no idea either. No VPN when at home, there has to be a setting on the server, but what it is I don't know?
 
First and obvious question is how is your email setup ?? POP3, IMAP etc.....
Could you post up screenshots please.

Second, you are using your own laptop so that means it is not governed by the company network and therefore, at a probable guess, only gets internet access when connected at the office.
At a probable guess the Exchange Server is set to accept connections from outside via HTTP.
 
A free VPN would sort that out bit it is silly to have to consider it.
 
I find it hard to think the IT dept wouldn't have thought of this, but you never know.......

Does the internal IT network use a proxy? If so you would need the proxy settings to use their network, but not when connecting to their Exchange server externally.

Mark.
 

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