Moral of the story, Office 365 is a great product and goes a long way to help non-IT to self manage their setup, but if you’re going to migrate then get some professional advise to ensure it goes smoothly. Step 3: Click Data Files and open the OST file location. Click ‘Account Settings’, then select ‘Account Settings’ again from the dropdown menu. Set the following values for the Value Names listed below: Click ‘File’ in the top left corner of the screen. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookAutoDiscoverģ. Click Start, click Run, and then type regedit.Ģ. However if a computer is on a domain then Outlook checks Active Directory for an SCP Object to determine what server to use, to get Oulook to ignore this setting you need to add a registry entryġ. The Autodiscover records were correct and were verified using Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer and by doing an NSLOOKUP on the machine to confirm the DNS records were correct.
You can’t really set Outlook up manually for the Office 365 Exchange Servers as they change and discovering the correct names is no easy task either. Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 software. Everytime they set it up it would auto-discover the existing Exchange server and not Office 365. Microsoft did not say when it would drop Basic Auth support, however.įor those who haven't yet dispensed with the old Outlook clients, Microsoft recommended - as it has confidently - that they switch to the subscription model of Office 365 or Microsoft 365, which provides always-up-to-date client software.A client migrated themselves to Office 365 from an existing on-premise Exchange at the weekend and called us as they were having problems configuring Outlook 2013. Microsoft explained that the older Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 clients will be incompatible with two upcoming changes to services, including an end to support for Basic Authentication - essentially, the long-standard username + password combination - that was postponed in February 2021. 1 deadline really will cut older Outlook clients from Microsoft's services. "We won't take any active measures to block other versions of the Office client, such as Office 2013, from connecting to Office 365 services, but these older clients may encounter performance or reliability issues over time," the developer said then. At the time, Microsoft had been surprisingly gracious, saying that while support would officially end, that didn't necessarily mean the end of connectivity.