Using Exchange ActiveSync through a proxy

[Guest seaephpea]

Hi,

I'm trying to get ActiveSync on my HTC Touch HD (on T-mobile UK) to sync with my university's new exchange server. The instructions for setting up the Exchange connection in Outlook say that the connection has to go through a proxy, but I can't seem to get this to work on my mobile. I've set up a work-connection with the right proxy details (and I've tried it both with and without the connection settings copied across from the main internet connection and with and without wifi connected) and I added an exception to ensure that connections to the exchange server are routed through the work connection. It still is not syncing though (and the error messages aren't particularly descriptive).

Any ideas? A link to a guide to setting up Exchange ActiveSync when the connection has to go through a proxy server would be incredibly useful.

Thanks,

Tom

P.S. The instructions for setting up a manual connection in Outlook are here: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/nexus/email/outlook2007/outlook2007config.xml.ID=oldUser