Setting up Autodiscovery Exchange 2007
Hello All
I have set up exchange in my company on a server 2k8 box.
I have outlook 2007 clients and i am having huge problems with auto discovery as i have never seen this before.
I have spend many hours watching my Train Signal info on how to set it up but it does get a little confusing.
Can anyone help with setting up Autodiscover so i can progress onto the next step of my setup,
Send and Receive takes a long time for clients using outlook 2007 and the OAB does not update for the users unless i delete the OAB files from the client computers.
I understand i will need a cert to.
Is there a guide for setting up autodiscovery, i do not need any public dns entrys as my current pop3 solution wis forwarding mail to exchange during my migration.
I understand that autodiscovery works via HTTPS but is this needed as all my clients access the server internally or over a cisco VPN there is no need for secure transport at present.
Can anyone help me Please
I have set up exchange in my company on a server 2k8 box.
I have outlook 2007 clients and i am having huge problems with auto discovery as i have never seen this before.
I have spend many hours watching my Train Signal info on how to set it up but it does get a little confusing.
Can anyone help with setting up Autodiscover so i can progress onto the next step of my setup,
Send and Receive takes a long time for clients using outlook 2007 and the OAB does not update for the users unless i delete the OAB files from the client computers.
I understand i will need a cert to.
Is there a guide for setting up autodiscovery, i do not need any public dns entrys as my current pop3 solution wis forwarding mail to exchange during my migration.
I understand that autodiscovery works via HTTPS but is this needed as all my clients access the server internally or over a cisco VPN there is no need for secure transport at present.
Can anyone help me Please
I would suggest that you might have a dns problem in your network. As far as I know there is no way / no need to set up the autodiscover feature. It's all automatically managed by outlook, exchange and AD. Check your dns (forward and reverse lookup) entries for the exchange server, global catalog server(s), etc.
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Hi there
thanks for your prompt responses.
I tested ping autodiscover.emaildomain.c
I also used the Test E-Mail auto config tool and the results were:
autoconfiguration has started, this may take a minute
autoconfiguration found the following settings
Display Name: My Name
Protocol: Exchange RPC
Server: servername.domain.local
login name: My userid
availability service URL: http://servername.domain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
OOF URL: http://servername.domain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
OAB URL: http://servername.domain.local/OAB/http://ctdiuk-ex1.ctdiuk.local/oab/6dceb980-aec1-4cd0-a8cd-b5ae9f6e05b5/
Unified Message Service URL: http://ctdiuk-ex1.ctdiuk.local/unifiedmessaging/service.asmx
auth packadge: Unspecified.
The above settings are when i only check autodiscover.
Using Guessmart most items fail in there apart from mail.emaildomain.co.uk as that is hosted on the web currently.
All of the URL's first ask me to confirm the cert is out but then ask for a login to which i use my domain username and password and it allow me to log in.
I have not setup any DNS settings as yet.
Do i need to setup autodiscover.emaildomain.c
Thanks
thanks for your prompt responses.
I tested ping autodiscover.emaildomain.c
I also used the Test E-Mail auto config tool and the results were:
autoconfiguration has started, this may take a minute
autoconfiguration found the following settings
Display Name: My Name
Protocol: Exchange RPC
Server: servername.domain.local
login name: My userid
availability service URL: http://servername.domain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
OOF URL: http://servername.domain.local/ews/exchange.asmx
OAB URL: http://servername.domain.local/OAB/http://ctdiuk-ex1.ctdiuk.local/oab/6dceb980-aec1-4cd0-a8cd-b5ae9f6e05b5/
Unified Message Service URL: http://ctdiuk-ex1.ctdiuk.local/unifiedmessaging/service.asmx
auth packadge: Unspecified.
The above settings are when i only check autodiscover.
Using Guessmart most items fail in there apart from mail.emaildomain.co.uk as that is hosted on the web currently.
All of the URL's first ask me to confirm the cert is out but then ask for a login to which i use my domain username and password and it allow me to log in.
I have not setup any DNS settings as yet.
Do i need to setup autodiscover.emaildomain.c
Thanks
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Thanks for your help! Used http://www.sembee.co.uk/ for exchange consultancy and worked through my problems
Thanks Once again
Thanks Once again
When I do the deployments, I don't care what the transport mechanism is, the same things are done on all systems.
1. The built in SSL certificate is switched to a SAN/UC certificate with the required names.
2. I setup so that autodiscover.example.com resolves internally and externally to the correct IP addresses (where example.com is the name used on the email addresses).
3. That all of the URLs set in the product are correct and resolve correctly internally and externally.
Autodiscover doesn't need any setting up, but the main problems come with certificate prompts and simple failure of the product to connect successfully.
You can do some diagnosis internally using Outlook. Hold down the CTRL key while right clicking on the Outlook icon and choose to test email auto configuration. Then check the URLs that are being handed out are correct.
Simon.