The quickest way to test this from the client end would be to hold CTRL & right click your Outlook 2007 Icon. Choose the option "Test E-mail Autoconfiguration..."
This will open up a new window (see below). In this window, uncheck the options "Use Guessmart" & "Secure Guessmart Authentication." Enter your password & hit "Test."
If your AutoConfiguration test completes successfully, then you're probably wondering why you're still receiving error 0x80070422. If your email AutoConfiguration test does not complete successfully, please verify your Exchange 2007 Web Service URL's as per this article.
Once you resolve any issues with email AutoConfiguration, many Outlook 2007 issues will also follow! A good example would be when you know that your server certificate is valid, yet you're still receiving a security warning similar to:
Now, the next step to remediating your 0x80070422 error (which is a CLIENT SIDE ERROR), enable the BITS service on the client PC.
Nice tip about BITS service.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Disabled BITS was my problem. Thanks!
DeleteAgree with the comment above - 150 users, 2 of them having lots of OAB 0x80070422 errors. Turns out those 2 didn't have BITS enabled. Enabled it and bingo, no more errors :)
ReplyDeleteBITS service - been causing me problems for a while. Nice catch! Thanks for the blog!
ReplyDeleteVery good catch. The BITS was spot on. Thanks for the tip :)
ReplyDeletethe 0x80070422 error was very annoying... starting BITS solve the issue.. thanks a lot for providing the fix :)
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