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Outlook Profile forced to connect to Windows AD Local Exchange. Need to connect to new M365 tenant
I have a customer who is still in a Windows AD domain. They're splitting from the parent company, but for now the PCs still have to be in the domain. I've migrated email to Microsoft 365 from their...
- First, you need to identify which method is Outlook hitting. On a domain-joined machine, this is likely the SRV, but just in case go over this article and check by running the Test Email Autoconfiguration wizard: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-2016-implementation-of-autodiscover-0d7b2709-958a-7249-1c87-434d257b9087
Once you identify the method, you can use the client-side reg keys to disable it and "instruct" Outlook to proceed to the O365 endpoint.
First, you need to identify which method is Outlook hitting. On a domain-joined machine, this is likely the SRV, but just in case go over this article and check by running the Test Email Autoconfiguration wizard: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-2016-implementation-of-autodiscover-0d7b2709-958a-7249-1c87-434d257b9087
Once you identify the method, you can use the client-side reg keys to disable it and "instruct" Outlook to proceed to the O365 endpoint.
Once you identify the method, you can use the client-side reg keys to disable it and "instruct" Outlook to proceed to the O365 endpoint.