Disable Autodiscover in Outlook

Question

My Dad's Outlook constantly asks him for Autodiscover settings. Since he is using 1and1 and I'm hosting the domain and doing email forwarding, I'd like to disable the Autodiscover process on his PC. How do I do that?

This is specifically the Exchange HTTPS Autodiscover process for Cached Exchange on Outlook 2007.

Solution 1

You can't disable Autodiscover. Outlook uses it at launch to locate the mailbox server for a given user, but it also runs periodically while Outlook is open so that it will notice changes to a user's mailbox.

Please Check: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

Solution 2

What worked for me was adding exchange_server_name.domain.local to the bypass proxy setting on the client machine.

Solution 3

I've never used these instructions before, but they strike me as a potentially legitimate solution. Unfortunately I don't have an appropriate machine to test out this problem on at the moment.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/96913/how-can-i-force-my-microsoft-outlook-2007-client-to-a-particular-autodiscovery-server.html

Comments

[Admin]

Saw that one when I added my entry. It doesn't disable autodiscovery, as the title says, it forces the client to a particular autodiscovery server.

[Happy Hamster]

fair point. I also saw the article below, so I think this is a lost cause, but hoped this might provide a work around in a way that I don't fully understand =)

[Spooky]

line does not show correctly -

[Spooky]

"127.0.0.2 autodiscover.YOURDOMAIN NAME.com"