Resolution: Outlook 2010 0x80070057 Error


An unknown error occurred, error code: 0x80070057

Nowadays, outlook 2010 users are getting this error message while they are trying to create new profile in Outlook 2010. Here Outlook tries to automatically find your server setting by connecting with Microsoft Exchange server.

There are almost two conditions which are responsible for the occurrence of Outlook 2010 error 0x80070057.

  1. If user's mailbox is located on an Exchange server 2003 mailbox server.
  2. If user is trying to create new profile using Auto Account Setup Process.

Outlook 2003 is not configured with feature Autodiscover (which is in the Exchange server 2007). So to fix this, try to change dns record. Put autodiscover.<mydomain>.com. in to your DNS server or your local host file then point it to the exchange server.

You can try to fix the Outlook 2010 0x80070057 error with the use of the hotfix package available for outlook 2010 at Microsoft sites. Download it and use it to get rid from this error message.

One simple solution is configuring server setting manually. User can manually configure server setting. Follow the procedure to configure it manually.



In the Mail control Panel, add new profile. You get this in “Show profile” option. After that you get the Add New E-mail Account dialog box where you will see your display name with email address. Now check the box of Manually configure server settings or additional server types and then click OK. Next, choose the Email services and Microsoft Exchange. In the setting dialog box enter the name of Exchange server. This way you can create profile successfully. Now restart Outlook.

Creating server setting is annoying task and creating every time is just……

One more reason for this error 0x80070057 could be corruption in the Outlook application which is creating problem in making connection with the server. After getting corruption in the Outlook application, users are not able to access file and not able to send or receive email messages by connecting with Exchange server. To fix out and to get rid from this error user can try to fix the corruption issue from Outlook application.

For this it is better to use prominent professional repair software. Use this to repair corrupted file and to fix corruption. Hopefully after this you will get rid from the 0x80070057 outlook error.