Cannot setup Outlook 2003/2007 clients manually (autodiscover works)
Hi all, Setting up an Exchange 2007 with roles separated in Client-Access on one server, and Mailbox+Hub Transport on another. We use 2 certificates (one for exchange server services and one for autodiscover only), and bind them accordingly using 2 sites in IIS7. The ip's are setup using 1 NIC with primary and alternate configured. The problem is, that I cannot setup Outlook (2003, 2007) clients manually. Autodiscover works for Outlook 2007 clients, but the returned mail server fqdn doesn't use the Client-Access server. Instead it points to the mailbox server fqdn. Everything else works when a 2007 client is configured (send/receive internally/externally). How can I troubleshoot this?
August 5th, 2010 11:37am

Hi When using Exchange 2007 you should point Outlook to MBX server Or do I misunderstand something? Jonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog
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August 5th, 2010 4:56pm

Hi Yes you're right, but as I forgot to mention, we're transitioning from Exchange 2003 til 2007, but pointing to our existing MX record *seems* to work better. That is, if I use the internal FQDN for MX record it takes (a long) while, but eventually it connects and setup the account. Using manual setup and pointing to the existing MX record, or using autodiscover, both still replies back with the mailbox-server address - not the CAS server. Is this normal or would I be better of creating a seperate MX record for the new Exchange 2007 untill we remove Exchange 2003?
August 9th, 2010 10:08am

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