Depending on your situation, you may want to take control of how Exchange’s Autodiscover lookup process works. Specifically, there are a lot of scenarios where Autodiscover will break because the lookup process isn’t properly controlled. In this article, I’ll go over registry settings that will let you control which steps are used and which ones are skipped.…
How to solve problems with Exchange Autodiscover. Certificate Error issues in particular.
This is just a quick little reference post to answer a question that isn’t well covered. Most Exchange admins are familiar with how to set the Virtual Directories in Exchange after a new server is added or a after initial deployment. What’s less clear to most is what those VDirs actually do as far as Exchange’s capabilities are concerned.…
Autodiscover is one of the more annoying features of Exchange since Microsoft reworked the way their Email solution worked in Exchange 2007. All versions since have implemented it and Microsoft may eventually require its use in versions following Exchange 2016. So how does Autodiscover work?
Some Background
Prior to Exchange 2007, Outlook clients had to be configured manually.…
As of the release of Outlook 2016, Microsoft has chosen to begin requiring the use of Autodiscover for setting up Outlook clients to communicate with the server. This means that, moving forward, you will need to configure Exchange Autodiscover to get Outlook working properly.
This page contains some information and some links to other posts I’ve written on the subject of Autodiscover.…
In a previous post I explained how you can use a SRV record to resolve certificate issues with Autodiscover when your Internal domain isn’t the same as your Email domain. This time, I’m going to explain how to fix things by making changes to Exchange and Active Directory that will allow things to function normally without having to use a SRV record or any DNS records at all, for that matter.…
This is just a quick post that is meant to help people out who are having some issues with creating a Hybrid Configuration with Office 365 and Exchange 2010 SP3. There are some serious bumps in the road that you can come across when setting this up that may cause you to spend countless hours troubleshooting without any real success.…
The Issue
Ever since Outlook 2016 was released, Autodiscover has been a necessity, rather than an option.
Autodiscover allows any Mail Client that connects to Exchange server to configure the appropriate settings for communication so you don’t have to input everything manually. It’s very handy, but can cause certificate errors if not configured correctly. One issue you may run into occurs most often with Exchange Organizations with non public DNS domains like domain.local.…