How to enable Outlook over HTTP with Exchange 2003

Just found the link to this again, so I'm gonna blog about it so I don't forget it.  It's instructions on how to enable RPC over HTTP so that outlook can connect to exchange directly, without having to use IMAP or POP.

Here's wat I did:

1. On the RPC proxy server, start Registry Editor (Regedit). (Or on a local machine)
   
   
2. In the console tree, locate the following registry key:
       HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Rpc\RpcProxy
   
   
3. In the details pane, right-click the ValidPorts subkey, and then click Modify.
   
   
4. In Edit String, in the Value data box, type the following information:
       
   

   Server:6001-6002;Server.domain:6001-6002;Server:6004;Server.domain:6004;
   
   You can even add extra entries in there, like I did, I have server, server.brownfamily.local, mail.nbdev.co.uk, lol.

• ExchangeServer is the NetBIOS name of your Exchange server.
  
  
• ExchangeServerFQDN is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Exchange server. If the FQDN that is used to access the server from the Internet differs from the internal FQDN, you must use the internal FQDN.
  

  To determine the NetBIOS name and the fully qualified domain name of your server, start a command prompt, type ipconfig /all, and then press ENTER. Under Windows IP Configuration, information that is similar to the following appears:

  Host Name .................: mycomputer Primary DNS Suffix ........: contoso.com

  The host name is the NetBIOS name of your computer. The host name together with the primary DNS suffix is the fully qualified domain name of your computer. In this example, the fully qualified domain name is mycomputer.contoso.com.

That's about it, and after that, jjust set up outlook, and hey presto, it connects, perfect

Anyhow, this is all in preperation for uni, which is looking quite appealing now, the only problem is going to be money, just got my student loan form back, and it says I've applied for a loan of £0, lol, that's cleaver.  Anyhow, gotta phone them up 2moz and try and get myself a loan, lol

Here's hoping that works, rite, that's it, cya soon