I have just installed my first Exchange 2013 deployment. Small single server install, no Edge Server. Things seem to have gone pretty well. I haven't enabled external mail yet but just wanted to do a bit of testing. I can send test messages and log in via OWA just fine.
However, when I try to connect an Outlook client I get the message: "Outlook cannot log on. Verify you are connected to the network. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable." I have an internal DNS record for autodiscover and the internal urls in Exchange.
Before I go much further, I will also add that I have not yet installed the cert. So I do get the certificate error when setting up Outlook. I think I read that without a valid cert install, Outlook will not connect to Exchange 2013. Is that true? I will be finishing things up and installing the cert soon. Once I do that, do you suspect the above error message will go away?
Also, after the error above, the dialog box appears that lists the server name. Instead of what I would consider a valid server name, the name shows up as 505ef3b4-5d84-458e-b084-53d45c532bf0@domain.com. Is that normal?
Thanks for any clarification