[Skywalker]

I made an slipstreamed CD with XP Pro and SP2. I installed it en everything seems fine.

Then I installed office 2003 and configured my mail profile in outlook. But outlook won't connect to my provider!?

I tried a lot of options, put outlook as an exclusion in the firewall, put the ports as an exception in the firewall, turned of the firewall.

Nothing seems to work, when I test my settings in outlook, it says the network connection is ok, then when it tries to find the POP3 and SMTP it won't connect.

On another computer I installed SP2 over XP SP1a with outlook and on that PC outlook still works perfectly......

I don't get it...........

Is there anyone who can help me with this? I'm 100% sure that the settings are ok. I didn't install any other software then XP with SP2 and Office 2003. I reproduced the problem within an VMware installation. So it seems to be a problem with XP with SP2 slipstreamed into it........

[gabriel_buc]

Maybe your settings are wrong in both your original installation and Vmware. I have WinXP Sp1 and Office 2003 Pro installed on my computer. Outlook works perfect. I upgraded my computer to Sp2 and Outlook still works perfect.

So I can't figure your problem ...

But, first turn off Windows Firewall, double check your Outlook settings and see if it still doesn't work.

[Skywalker]

Found it! I prepped my image with Nlite, and stripped Outlook Express also. This was the problem. I installed again with Outlook Express and then installed Outlook 2003 and now it works fine.

[gabriel_buc]

This problem has been disscused on this forum before. If you strip Outlook Express from your XP CD you'll encounter problems using Outlook.

Though we're not magicians to guess from your infos that you stripped Outlook Express and that might be the problem.

Cheers