Hi,
I'm trying to setup a development sandbox environment for working on creating an application that uses Exchange Web Services and using Exchange 2013 and Outlook 2013.
To try and keep things simple I created a Server 2012 Standard virtual machine, made it a domain controller, and then installed Exchange 2013 and Outlook 2013 on it. I wanted Exchange and the domain controller on the same virtual machine so I can revert snapshot on the machine without Exchange getting out of sync with the domain controller. I created some test mailbox accounts and using Outlook 2013 on that same machine, I'm able to access those mailbox accounts okay without problems.
I have a seperate development workstation that is on a different domain with Visual Studio and Outlook 2013 installed on it. I am able to access those test accounts using Outlook Web Access from Internet Explorer on my workstation without getting a certificate error. But when I try to access those same test mailbox accounts using the Outlook 2013 on my workstation, I keep getting the following error:
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. Microsoft Exchange is not available. Either there are network problems or the Exchange server is down for maintenance.
I've done this sort of setup in the past using Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 and did not run into this problem before.
I tried installing the auto-generated self-signed certificate from the Exchange server onto my development workstation.
I tried turning off RPC Encryption by setting the EncryptionRequred to false using the Set-RpcClientAccess command on the Exchange server and unchecked the "Encrypt data between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange" in the mailbox account settings on the workstation using the mail (32 bit) in the control panel.
I read somewhere that I need to purchase an SSL certificate and install it on my Exchange server, but I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it since this is just for development testing purposes.
Is there anything else I can try to make this work?
Thanks,
Greg