Setting up Exchange OWA in Outlook

Having a test environment is a great thing.  Having a test environment which is an exact virtual copy of production is a wonderful thing.  However, as a developer connected to that test environment it is hard to keep up with meeting requests, emails, etc when outlook must be viewed through Exchange OWA. 

After reaching my limit of sending emails and not having them go to their intended recipients (having been caught in the test environment exchange), and consulting our resident Network guru, here is the answer:

Add a host file record for the ip of the owa url.
for: https://12.123.12.123/exchange / https://webmail.domain.com/
add 12.123.12.123     webmail.domain.com

Next flushdns
Open cmd prompt and type ipconfig -flushdns

Then we begin adding the outlook account
Open control panel
Click Mail
Show Profiles
Add
Name the profile whaterver you want.
Ok
Manually configure server settings or additional server types
Next
Microsoft Exchange or compatible service
Next
More Settings
Click the Security tab
Check Always prompt for logon credentials
Click the Connection tab
check Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP
then click on the Exchange Proxy Settings
type webmail.domain.com (this is the key. The url here needs to match the url on the owa certificate) 
check the On fast networks, connect using HTTP first, then connect using TCP/IP
click ok
type the fqdn of the exchange server (i.e. server.domain.com)
type your email and check names. 

If everything went successfully you should be able to finish as you would normally.  Click next and if you want this to be the default profile be sure to set it on the mail profiles window.

Hope this helps someone else out there as I know I banged my head over this one for a while.