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Migration to Hosted Exchange
I'm going to be moving away from local Exchange this year in favor of hosted. I have a general question about something I don't understand.
My domain.com has an external DNS, but also an internal AD DNS for everything on the inside (same domain name). Externally I have an auto discover record and all that and the Outlook anywhere clients work just fine. I would change to autodiscover record and Outlook clients would begin using the new host.
Now internally on the AD domain I do not have any autodiscover record and all the Outlook clients still automatically connect to my internal exchange server and configure themselves just fine. However, I don't understand how that actually works without an autodiscover record. I'm asking this because I don't know what would be needed to internally make the Outlook clients start connecting to the new external host. I know I would need to add an autodiscover record internally, but would that work and how is it even working now?
My domain.com has an external DNS, but also an internal AD DNS for everything on the inside (same domain name). Externally I have an auto discover record and all that and the Outlook anywhere clients work just fine. I would change to autodiscover record and Outlook clients would begin using the new host.
Now internally on the AD domain I do not have any autodiscover record and all the Outlook clients still automatically connect to my internal exchange server and configure themselves just fine. However, I don't understand how that actually works without an autodiscover record. I'm asking this because I don't know what would be needed to internally make the Outlook clients start connecting to the new external host. I know I would need to add an autodiscover record internally, but would that work and how is it even working now?
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