While traveling I could not get Outlook on my laptop to send\/receive any emails.  The Outlook status bar would say Disconnected and checking the Outlook Send\/Receive Progress Errors would show \u201cTask ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x80040115) : ‘The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I tried everything from ipconfig \/flushdns; changing the DNS Server; repairing the mailbox; even reinstalling Outlook.  Nothing worked and I felt crippled without email (oddly\/luckily I could receive emails on my Windows 7 Phone so I was not completely paralyzed).<\/p>\n

The solution?  My work PC had Outlook still running but Outlook had crashed!  After stopping the crashed Outlook, it starting working again on my laptop.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While traveling I could not get Outlook on my laptop to send\/receive any emails.  The Outlook status bar would say Disconnected and checking the Outlook Send\/Receive Progress Errors would show \u201cTask ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x80040115) : ‘The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}