Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 (in conjunction with Office 2007 onwards) use Autodiscover to automatically fill in the users account details the first time he or she logs in. It also takes care of "availability", out-of-office, offline address book and a few other things. In Exchange 2003 these things either were not done or they were achieved with public folders.
The client first queries active directory for the CAS server's autodiscover URL. It finds this by means of a "service connection point", which is located in the following location:
CN=[Server Name],CN=Autodiscover,CN=Protocols,CN=[Server Name],CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=[Exchange Organisation Name],CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=[Domain],DC=com
In order to edit this object you can use the set-ClientAccessServer -identity [CAS Server] -AutoDiscoverServiceInternalURI "[URL]" (it is stored under ServiceBindingInformation).
According to this guy (http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/04/02/busting-the-set-autodiscovervirtualdirectory-myth.aspx) setting the "AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory" internal and external URLs does NOTHING.
Outlook Autodiscover Logging:
%temp%\Olkdisc.log
You can also hold control and right click the Outlook icon in the taskbar and it will give you Autodiscover tools.
The client first queries active directory for the CAS server's autodiscover URL. It finds this by means of a "service connection point", which is located in the following location:
CN=[Server Name],CN=Autodiscover,CN=Protocols,CN=[Server Name],CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=[Exchange Organisation Name],CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=[Domain],DC=com
In order to edit this object you can use the set-ClientAccessServer -identity [CAS Server] -AutoDiscoverServiceInternalURI "[URL]" (it is stored under ServiceBindingInformation).
According to this guy (http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/04/02/busting-the-set-autodiscovervirtualdirectory-myth.aspx) setting the "AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory" internal and external URLs does NOTHING.
Outlook Autodiscover Logging:
%temp%\Olkdisc.log
You can also hold control and right click the Outlook icon in the taskbar and it will give you Autodiscover tools.
