Questions tagged [autodiscovery]
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Outlook Autodiscover - authentication to IIS fails as domain is mail.contoso.com not contoso.local
I have set up Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007 in a test lab. Everything works (with SSL, OOO, etc). But there is one niggle:
During autodiscover from an external machine on the Internet, the end user inputs their name, email, and password twice,…

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Prevent Exchange Server from advertising itself on domain
I'm in the middle of setting up an Exchange 2010 Server. Currently, we use a SaaS provider for Exchange 2007 services. Some (but not all) of my users have been reporting that they are receiving Outlook/Exchange login prompts to login to the new…

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What breaks if someone has a missing or misconfigured "_autodiscover" SRV record
Suppose many companies are using Exchange 2010 for email hosting, and each company has a different TLD / Domain. The email hoster does not want to add Subject Alternative Names and opts for the SRV configuration of Autodiscover.
How important is it…

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Autodiscover redirect to external Server
We have following situation:
SBS 2008 that runs Exchange 2007 (built in)
Several mailboxes on that SBS
One user that uses a hosted exchange mailbox because the user needs Blackberry-services that we host in our datacenter (exchange-2007)
That…

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Exclude autodiscover from DNS wildcard record
I am aware of explicitly defined DNS resource records are matched before any wildcard records. But how could I exclude a single subdomain from a wildcard without creating an explicit resource record for it?
I am using this for mail autodiscovery…

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Zabbix network discovery of puppet managed network
I try to automate the discovery of my entire network, which is managed with puppet, and I want to use the zabbix network discovery feature instead of Puppetdb for mulitple reasons.
I've tried creating a userparameter named puppet.classes which…

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Outlook Autodiscover Protocol Updated? (or broken?)
I have set up email autodiscovery on a non-Exchange email server per [this technet article][1], and when testing with Outlook 2015, it does not work.
Outlook hits the server multiple times, retrieving autodiscover.xml from example.com,…

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Autoconfig and Autodiscover records added, Mail Apps still not discovering configuration
I have setup autodiscover and autoconfig configuration over my linux server
Auto Discover
Auto Config
by following this Tutorial
but my mailing apps are still not getting the configuration automatically. I have to configure it manually while adding…

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Exchange 2010 joining sites in different sites with common external DNS namespace
Looking for advice on joining two existing Exchange 2010 sites. Main driver being to share calendar information and a common GAL.
Due to complexities with internal domain names and shared (non existent) root domain joining the two sites within…

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Exchange 2010 Autodiscover, Return OWAUrl Configuration
I have a Exchange 2010 instance where 2 different domains, Fabrikam.com and Contoso.com, are using the same server that has all 3 Exchange server roles installed, CAS/Transport/Mailbox. All of the clients are using RPC over HTTPS to connect over the…

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How does autodiscovery work?
When an application goes out and discovers all the devices on a network, and then sends the information back to some kind of asset management system, how does that work? I understand when there is an EXE file or other program that is run on PCs and…

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How to solve issues with Exchange's Autodiscover (xml) and any peculiar clients like Windows Communication Apps [HxTsr.exe] with complex DNS config?
For the search engine, context elements:
Exchange Online
Office 365 / Microsoft 365 --> Particular Outlook --> outlook.office.com
Windows' Mail & Calendar App [HxTsr.exe, "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps"]
Apex domain redirect to…

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IMAP Server Autodiscovery
I recently got a VPS and want to start using it to host my websites instead of the Shared Hosting packages that i'm using.
Question 1: Is it possible to setup Autodiscovery for the IMAP configurations?
Most of my users are Microsoft Office Outlook…
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For FreeIPA autodiscovery to work, what SRV records must exist on the DNS server?
I've configured FreeIPA for the most part. When I attempt to add a client, I must manually specify the domain and IPA server FQDN. I've read many sources discussing autodiscovery, but I have yet to find an example of the autodiscovery records.
My…

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Office 365 Outlook Autodiscover using a reverse proxy - bad approach?
Background. Outlook Autodiscover has a certain order of trying to figure out configuration, and it's somewhat unchangeable, at least for Office 365 users with BYOD devices:
Domain apex https://example.com:443/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml. As this…

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