I have a question about Outlook Anywhere. We have Exchange 2007 servers at a remote site. It seems our internal clients at that site are getting Outlook Anywhere settings as part of Autodiscovery, but it's pointing to a server in our corporate office over a very slow link. Periodically Outlook says it's unavailable and you have to select retry to connect. How can I ensure users at this remote site are pointed to the local CAS server for Outlook Anywhere?

As long as Autodiscover works the local CAS should always be used, have a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123741.aspx#multipleADsites for detailsMagnus Bjrk www.mailmaster.se/blog

Thanks fo rthe quick response. Does Outlook Anywhere need to be enabled on the CAS server at the remote site? It's not currently enabled, so I wonder if it's trying to validate via the corporate server since that is where the URL is pointing to in in Outlook for the Exchange Proxy settings.?

Hi Rowdy19, What do you mean by “it’s pointing to a server … over a very slow link”? Can you share the screenshot of the error message you received? For the questions “How can I ensure users at this remote site are pointed to the local CAS server for Outlook Anywhere?”, you may try the steps below: 1. Click Outlook icon with CTRL press down and click "Connection Status". It can tell us what server Outlook is connecting to for mail/direct/public folder, and if Outlook is connecting via Outlook Anywhere (HTTP); 2. Run "Test Email Autoconfiguration" to see what URL is returned and what CAS server is pointing to that URL. It help us understand which CAS Outlook is connecting to for Autodiscover service. Hope it is helpful. Fiona