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Uncovering Outlook 2007 AutoConnect Feature
Microsoft Outlook 2007 AutoConnect (formerly known as AutoDiscovery) is a new Exchange Server 2007 feature, or more specifically Web Service, which makes it so much simpler as well as easier to configure the Outlook 2007 profiles in your organization. In order to automatically configure and connect previous versions of Outlook to Exchange 2000 and 2003 Servers, you needed to do so using the Custom Installation Wizard from the Office Resource Kit or a similar tool. But now the users can configure their Outlook profile themselves, as they only need to click next a few times and specify their e-mail address and password, depending on whether they're using a client machine member of the respective Active Directory domain or not.The AutoConnect feature is provided by the Client Access Server (CAS) role, which is the server role that replaces the front-end server we know from Exchange 2000 and 2003. So in order to make use of the new AutoConnect feature, it’s a requirement that you have at least one Exchange 2007 Server, with the CAS role installed, deployed in your organization. (more)