I can't seem to connect on or off network to a brand new exchange server from a fresh install on a new mac... painful.
I get the error "Unexpected data was encountered" error code -17997 and not sure if I can really say much more.

Mac Mail works fine (to boot), and I've literally copy-pasted the user, server, etc from one to the other and outlook is still not functioning.

Anyone else? Is there some special "mac setting" that needs to be enabled on the server?

Running: Mountain lion, MS office for Biz, all updated and current. Permissions repaired, etc on my MBP-r.