Customize Outlook Autodiscover Settings

Question

I would maybe remove anything else you have setup and just use one method for handling autodiscover, generally my preference would just be a basic cname record so autodiscover.yourdomain.com points to autodiscover.hostedprovider.com - this should be more than enough for Outlook to work with.Other things to check are whether you previously had any onsite Exchange servers and to confirm they were uninstalled correctly as otherwise it could be that there are old Exchange objects in AD that your Outlook is trying to connect to first (on domain joined PC's Outlook will check in AD for an SCP before using the regular Autodiscover checks). Unfortunately more than a few inexperienced admins just shutdown their exchange servers thinking this is enough and don't realise that unless they do a full uninstall before shutting down the server it...

Answer 1

This is perfectly fine as is, by default Outlook will attempt a few different locations where Autodiscover may exist, only 1 of these needs to be valid for it to work correctly:- Checks https://domain.com/Autodiscover/autodiscover.xml- Checks https://autodiscover.domain.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml- Checks for an SRV record for autodiscover.domain.comEither of these will normally on exist for on-premises Exchange and even then only for the primary domain, for secondary domains or hosted Exchange setups Outlook will then attempt these methods:- Checks http://domain.com/Autodiscover/autodiscover.xmlto see if there is a HTTP Redirect.- Checks http://autodiscover.domain.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xmlto see if there is a HTTP Redirect.- Checks for an SRV record for autodiscover.domain.com.These checks only take a couple of seconds...