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YazeedHamdan

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Hello,

Today an exclamation mark appeared on outlook 2013 desktop client and it was completely disconnected, used to work fine yesterday and earlier, however, I thought it is something to do with settings, so I removed all profiles and data files from control panel and wanted to create the profile again per godaddy instructions:

https://www.godaddy.com/help/outlook-manually-configure-email-9011

However, i'm receiving this error after configuring all settings:

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Microsoft Outlook
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The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.
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OK
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i'm using windows 10 x64 pro and outlook 2013 is fully updated, as far as I recall, yesterday a new update has been applied to outlook 2013, not sure if it broke something or the exchange server is down, could you please check.

Thanks

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YazeedHamdan

Hi Chris,

Thanks for trying to help, finally I was able to know the cause and fix it, I recently uninstalled VMware workstation, and it messed up windows DNS, so I found a solution to reregister it with these commands:

ipconfig /flushdns

ipconfig /registerdns

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

NETSH winsock reset catalog

NETSH int ipv4 reset reset.log

NETSH int ipv6 reset reset.log

and now everything is working properly.

Thanks

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