Resolution: To check the Microsoft Exchange server connection, follow below-mentioned steps: In your Mac Outlook application, click on Tools tab and select Accounts to fix Outlook for Mac not sending or receiving messages Navigate to Exchange account that is situated in the left. Contact your work for setup instructions.Įdit: additionally, OA requires some specific steps to setup both on the Exchange side and on the Outlook side, so that may be why everything isn't working as you expect. Outlook is Not Linked With Server Running Exchange Server. The comment earlier about Outlook Anywhere is spot on. Instead of MAPI/RPC/whatever connectivity that Outlook has used for years, they used Exchange Web Services (EWS) to accomplish the connectivity.Īs for trying to use Active Sync with 2013. The Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft has worked hard to provide a better experience and by 2011 they accomplished, mostly. It has to do with how Entourage (Outlook for Macs grand daddy) was jury rigged to provide connectivity in a barely workable fashion. So this means I should try to connect to Outlook 2013 using ActiveSnyc, then? Does Outlook 2011 use that in some way? I am slightly baffled that the older version of Outlook (on a Mac, nonetheless!) seems to be more capable and easy to use than the flagship.
Without OA, you'd need a VPN connection to your work network to be able to connect to Exchange. It sounds like your work Exchange system offers ActiveSync (as it would, to support mobile devices) but not Outlook Anywhere.
IIRC, the Windows Mail client uses ActiveSync.
