Outlook 2010 in Wine on Arch Linux

I have been trying for WAY too long to get Outlook to connect to my exchange account under wine. This is mostly because I just can't seem to find anything else that works, I've been using Thunderbird but Meeting invitations don't appear in my Inbox. My "new message count" shows I have new messages, but there is nothing in my Inbox and there seem to be no plugins that can get it to work properly, plus I don't seem to be be able to get the exchange calendar to work.

Anyway, I finally figured out why Outlook running on Wine would not connect... My smb.conf file was missing. So the solution was....

# cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.default /etc/samba/smb.conf

And everything worked perfectly. I figured this out by the way by starting Outlook from command line with a bunch of overly complex options and seeing an error message saying that /etc/samba/smb.conf was missing.

Install Microsoft Office 2010 in 64 bit Arch Linux

This might actually help someone other than me... I am running 64 bit Arch Linux and last November or so I installed Office2010 using PlayOnLinux with no problems.
Unfortunately I had to re-install Arch about a week ago (Early February) and afterwards my Office applications would no longer start (my home is on a separate partition so I didn't have to reinstall Office). Nothing I tried could get Office 2010 to work properly. I deleted my .wine and .PlayOnLinux folders and tried to reinstall.
I either couldn't get it to install, or could get it to install, but activation over the Internet would not work. I didn't want to call Microsoft even though that would probably have been the easiest solution. I tried exporting WINEARCH="win32" but the installer then crashed.

What I finally had to do was uninstall wine and all its dependencies and then install bin32-wine-snapshot from the AUR. After that everything was just great.

# packer -S bin32-wine-snapshot     # or yaourt or whatever...
$ export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.msoffice2010"
$ export WINEARCH="win32"
$ wine my-installer.exe

Done, and it activated with no issue.