Autodiscover is a standard feature in Exchange Server 2007 and higher that’s being used by Outlook 2007 and higher. Looking at the number of questions I get regarding autodiscover I’ve written a number of blogposts that will look into Autodiscover in depth:

• Autodiscover Part I – Introduction Autodiscover and Outlook on a domain joined client
• Autodiscover Part II – Outlook on a non-domain client (this post)
• Autodiscover Part III – 3^rd party certificates and your own PKI solution
• Autodiscover Part IV – Using different SMTP domain names

In Part I I’ve explained how domain joined clients work with autodiscover information that’s stored in Active Directory. This is easy for domain joined clients that have access to the internal network, but it’s a bit different for domain clients that have no access (i.e. working from home or a hotel) and for non-domain joined clients. The latter don’t have access to Active Directory and there cannot query AD for the Service Connection Point of course.

In this post I’ll discuss the same client as in Part I, but this time when there’s no access to the internal network (and thus no access to Active Directory). Continue reading Exchange 2010 and Autodiscover Part II →