Resolved SBS2008 Auto Discover

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Hi guys,

Can someone explain WHAT steps are supposed to be taken when setting up an SBS2008 box in order to make AutoDiscover (and therefore, out of office in Outlook 2007) work? What exactly is supposed to be set up if a company doesn't want any external email access through a website.

Right now, this is the second box that has had the problem of Outlook 2007 + not being able to set out of office on.

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That's the current issue for only Outlook 2007 and Above users. There was nothing out of the ordinary at set up that could of done it, updates were performed etc. What has been missed exactly?

Also, how on earth does this get fixed now?

 

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To enable Outlook to communicate with Exchange Web Services properly, thereby allowing access to the Out of Office Assistant; Free/Busy information; the Offline Address Book; enabling editing of Shared Calendars, etc. you need to tick this box within the Outlook profile settings:



Doing so, however, will result in nagging warning messages when you open Outlook and periodically throughout the day as you use the software as the Exchange Server does not have a properly configured Subject Alternate Name (SAN) Certificate on it.

Versions of Outlook prior to Office 2007 used a different (less secure) method of connecting to Exchange, so this issue does not occur for users of Outlook 2003 (for example). Outlook 2007 relies on HTTPS connections to the Exchange Web Services!

What you need to do is configure an internal Certification Authority (CA) on your network, generate a SAN Certificate for Exchange, bind it to the relevant Exchange Virtual Directories and import this Certificate to the Trusted Certificate Store on each PC with Outlook installed. If you have a third-party SSL Certificate, leave it on the server for inbound connections to Remote Web Workplace, you'll need to carefully adjust the settings to ensure the two will happily co-exist.

There’s a fair bit of work involved in correcting this. It is not particularly difficult to do, however due to the complexities of the software components involved, careful planning and thorough testing will be necessary.

Let me know if you need a hand, and good luck!

 

That box was already ticked. However it now appears to be working, I did quite a lot of tinkering earlier today as did 2 other engineers. It really is an odd one, it's something you take for granted as well and not one of them features that you think "there something that needs to be set up".

With SBS 2008, are you expected to run through all of the wizards in the SBSConsole (IE Set up internet domain presence) etc?

Autodiscover still comes up with the same message as above, except out of office actually turns on and doesn't respond with server unavailable. Any insight?

Cheers mate.

 

When you run the following command, what does it reference:

Get-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory |fl

Does it tie in with your Public SSL Certificate?

Also, this is a good link that has a few pointers mate http://social.technet.microsoft.com...l/thread/383d130e-869f-4fce-9502-8b340904b0ba

 

YES

I've had this problem many a time. Solved by running configure sites, ensure the cert is correct and throwing exchange SP2 on

 

Well, I rolled out SP2 after going through and configuring all of the settings manually via EM Shell and IIS Management. Seems to be fully fixed now. Interesting that you can't actually install SP2 without the special installation tool because it doesn't work.

Thanks all of the help gents.