Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Connectivity, Clients, and UM

Autodiscover

Microsoft introduced the Autodiscover service in Exchange 2007 as a solution for the perennial problem of how to help users configure Outlook and Exchange ActiveSync with the name of their mailbox and the server that hosts the mailbox the first time they connect to Exchange. Information about the mailbox’s location is subsequently held in the Outlook profile. A profile can still be configured manually, but it’s a lot easier to let Autodiscover do the work for you, especially because Outlook overwrites manually configured settings that conflict with settings it gets from Autodiscover. This all works very nicely unless the mailbox for which you are attempting to configure access is hidden from Exchange address lists, in which case, ...