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The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change…

Recently I had to upgrade an Exchange 2013 platform from CU2 to CU5, there were four Exchange 2013 Client Access servers and eight Exchange 2013 Mailbox servers (in a DAG).

During the upgrade of the Mailbox servers users were presented with the dreaded “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook.” dialog box.

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AutodiscoverRedirect in Exchange 2013 SP1 on Windows 2012 R2

In earlier versions of Exchange you can use the Autodiscoverredirect option to retrieve autodiscover information if your primary SMTP domain in your email address does not match the domain name of the autodiscover DNS record in your Exchange deployment. You’ll face this issue when your Client Access server is using webmail.contoso.com and autodiscover.contoso.com but your email address is john@fabrikam.com. In this case your Outlook client will automatically start looking for a DNS record called autodiscover.fabrikam.com which points to the autodiscover.contoso.com. As a result a certificate warning is presented since the name of the request does not match the name on the certificate.

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