Couple ways to solve this issue. 1) Manipulate DNS (horrible idea, cant believe I included it as an option) | This will only get you so far, but depending on how your name space is setup, they may be able to manipulate where those autodiscover queries are resolved to internally.
2) Custom Auto Discover sites (Such a better solution) | So in their Exchange 2007 environments they should setup custom autodiscover sites (like https://deptforest.uconn.edu/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml) and then set that to be the internal address on their client access servers. Following successful setup, Outlook should look there instead of to your central server. They can do this for the outside address as well, but the auto-setup feature will never work for them because the default address is built into the client (OL 2007 and EAS), but that is not really a huge deal. Doing #2 should be fairly easy new-autodiscovervirtualdirectory and then set the addresses with set-clientaccessserver. FYI, I have never done this, so if you try it and it works, let me know. (I am currently applying for an EDU job now that has a similar de-centralized campus Exchange). Thanks troy -----Original Message----- From: Boggis, Josh [mailto:josh.bog...@uconn.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Autodiscover service and multiple exchange environments That is the case, however, outlook 2007 periodically hits autodiscover.uconn.edu on ���������������s own. From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Autodiscover service and multiple exchange environments Josh- Without knowing a whole lot about your environment. When setting up a client there is an option at the bottom that allows for manual setup on Outlook 2007. Is there a reason that cannot be done? Or make sure that users are putting in the correct domain information when logging on for the first time? It sounds to me (and I can be totally off here) that this is a user education problem. _____________ John Bowles ________________________________ From: "Boggis, Josh" <josh.bog...@uconn.edu> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:34:03 AM Subject: Autodiscover service and multiple exchange environments We have recently deployed Exchange 2007 and setup the autodiscover service. Works great for all of our users. Unfortunately while we are the central IT department for the University, we are not the only area running Exchange. There are several smaller departments that run their own AD Forests / Exchange environments, but their reply address is the same as the one we use. As such their Outlook 2007 clients hit our autodiscover service and they are����������t very happy with that. Anyone know how to either turn it off on Outlook, or some method to make their clients happy? ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
