What is a DNS SRV record?

If you’ve had to work with Active Directory or Exchange, there’s a good chance you’ve come across a feature of DNS called a SRV record. SRV records are an extremely important part of Active Directory (They are, in fact, the foundation of AD) and an optional part of Exchange Autodiscover. There are a lot of other applications that use SRV records to some degree or another (Lync/Skype for Business relies heavily on them, for instance).The…

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Configuring Autodiscover for Internal DNS

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.…

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