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Automatically Configue MS Outlook 2010 without any prompts.

How do I set MS Outlook to setup the users Outlook profile without asking the user any question. Outlook 2010 has been configured with a Group police template. Each user currently sets up a profile by clicking on MS Outlook 2010 and selecting the default values by selecting next at each prompt. The mailbox is on an Exchange 2010 server, active directory is 2008 R2
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Is this Internal with cert applied ?
What server is being tried and what is the SP and RU ?
Surely you should have AutoDiscover in place as per the earlier comment

- Rancy
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Yes, it’s internal and there is certificate on the exchange 2010 server.
It should be Exchange 2010 SP2. Help about display (Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Corporation, Version: 14.02.0247.005)

Autodiscover.domain is not configured. The Microsoft client connectivity engineer (yup, official Microsoft employee) who tried to set it up had a problem. He had told me to point autodiscovery.domain to the external IP address of the firewall/vpn and he was unable to get it to work because the vpn device  intercepted with the requests  :) :) :)

I suggested that he tried pointing Autodiscover.domain to external IP of the Exchange server but said no. He fixed the Active sync and outlook web access issues and closed the case.

I doubt that I will be able to fix the external DNS name record today and it looks like we are going to need a SAN certificate for autodiscovery.domain.  I would like  to get this to work internally today but the link says to point the internal clients to the external name whenever the internal name does not match my external name.

Any other way to fix the nternal issues today?

Thanks lruiz52 and Rancy.
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What we did was to create a dns zone in our internal DNS with the name of our external domain, then create the autodiscover A record pointing to our internal mail servers ip.
Rancy my request to Microsoft said client connectivity issues.  I just look at his scope e-mail  and it said active sync issues. In my option auto discover fall is covered by both topics.

Lruiz52, the Microsoft engineer did create a dns zone but he did it for  the external name of the mail server not the domain .i.e, he created  mail.bbbb.ccc  not bbbb.ccc .

I suspect that I would have to create a dns zone for autodiscover.bbbb.ccc and point is internally or externally to the mail server's ip address. I am going to try it tonight.
Try just creating the bbbb.ccc zone then creating the (A) record to your internal email server.
I doubt if he scoped with ActiveSync they would further help as if mobile device is connecting then scope of the ticket is met

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We don't have a solution to 'Automatically Configue MS Outlook 2010 without any prompts.' but the we have solution for configuring autodiscover therefore I am going to award point.