Comments on SeanDaniel.com: Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere

that's correct. with the SRV record, you can ...

2009-12-08T12:22:34.708-08:00

that's correct. with the SRV record, you can use a single name SSL certificate.

I guess when I start playing with it I will begin ...

2009-11-06T10:25:41.780-08:00

I guess when I start playing with it I will begin to understand! As remote.company.com is the default in SBS2008, I guess I will just create an A record for that.

From what you are saying, I can still get away with the standard SSL cert that I have been use to with Exchange 2003 / SBS 2003, but with SBS2008 specifically a SRV record should be created automatically for internal Outlook 2007 (domain registered) clients (I see a forward lookup zone has been created), but for external access e.g. OWA we need to create a SRV record via our DNS managing company, providing they can create these types of records?

Thanks
Adrian

What do you use for remote web workplace? I presum...

2009-11-06T10:00:52.769-08:00

What do you use for remote web workplace? I presume remote.company.com, at least that's the default. This is the instant SSL cert you should request. You only need one to get all the SBS functionality working.

You should care about autodiscover, because if you have any Outlook 2007 clients, they will call the autodiscover setting about once every 5 minutes, causing havok for your users if it's not set up correctly. If you are using the remote.company.com, you will need a service record (or SRV record) that points the autodiscover service to the appropriate A record, the remote A record.

The official SBS blog has a good write-up on this.

Good luck!

Sean When I follow your instructions above and pa...

2009-11-06T09:48:49.550-08:00

Sean

When I follow your instructions above and paste the request file in for a UCC certificate from Comodo I see the request file actually contains 3 domains : company.com, remote.company.com, servername.internal.local. So if I was to paste the request in to a standard, in Comodo's case, InstantSSL, certificate request which domain would be used? I'm confused about all of this autodiscovery stuff - do we really need to care? Does your method mean that Outlook 2007 clients should work without the certificate error message?

Thanks

Hi Iain,

A few questions for you:
(1) is...

2009-03-09T13:25:00.000-07:00

Hi Iain,

A few questions for you:
(1) is the user a local admin on that machine. I believe to do PRF installations, you need to be one

(2)Can you run powershell from the server in an elevated mode and run get-clientaccessserver and let us know what the output is? This will help us to understand what's wrong with Autodiscover.

Thanks!

I have the same issue as Daryl. I have a clean bui...

2009-03-04T08:47:00.000-08:00

I have the same issue as Daryl. I have a clean build of SBS 2008 and have no auto-discover records in the locally defined DNS for remote.mydomain.com (which I understand are just for Outlook 2007).

Also, I have Outlook 2003 and when I start it on a PC which was added with the ConnectComputer method to the domain (and which also was a clean build of Vista), nothing is auto-configured as it should be. Where should the automatically created PRF be to get pushed down to the client?

In SBS 2003 this worked automatically - why would it not work now?

Thanks

Iain

Hi Daryl,

Are you sure the clients are doma...

2008-11-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

Hi Daryl,

Are you sure the clients are domain joined? they only get things pushed to them if they are properly domain joined.

When you say the SRV or A records weren't set up, are you using one of our domain name partners? is the Dynamic DNS client running?

Sorry, that wasnt very clear. Server is SBS2008, m...

2008-11-26T05:23:00.000-08:00

Sorry, that wasnt very clear. Server is SBS2008, mixture of OL2007 and OL2003 clients, all on WinXP.

I was meaning that the OL2007 clients didnt get profiles setup automatically via AutoDiscover, and in fact Autodiscover didnt seem to be setup at all, ie no autodiscover A or SRV records in the internal DNS.

I also meant that the OL2003 clients also didnt get the PRF file pushed to them like you said they would.

They key peice you are missing is that Autodiscove...

2008-11-24T11:46:00.000-08:00

They key peice you are missing is that Autodiscover is a 2007 only feature. Sorry, you'll have to upgrade to take advantage of that feature.

Sean

Sean,

I have done a test install using the ...

2008-11-22T06:03:00.000-08:00

Sean,

I have done a test install using the MAPS media, and the first production deployment last week, and have found no autodiscover stuff setup at all in dns, or srv records, so it didnt work at all. It also didnt push the prf file to the Outlook 2003 clients, so they didnt get any config done either. What have I missed here?

Regards
Daryl