Dec 23, 2014 In this situation, Outlook for Mac users can still access the Exchange server. Cause If the EwsEnabled property is not set at both the mailbox. Jan 31, 2018 Exchange 2010 and Mac Outlook 2016 - Increase attachment size limit Exchange Server Discuss evaluation, troubleshooting, tools, documentation, and more on.
Scenario: While connected to the internal network, Outlook 2011 connects to the Exchange server without issues. When you disconnect from the network and take it home, it will continue to work fine. However, when you bring it back and connect to the internal network, Outlook will automatically update the Exchange Server address to the internal server address. Outlook works fine on the internal network with this setting; the problem arises when you are out of the office.
Since Outlook 2011 has the internal address instead of the public address, it no longer works out of the office. Outlook 2011 for Mac uses it continually. This causes your settings to be adjusted to internal-only settings when working onsite, after the account has already been configured appropriately for internal & external access. This solution comes from in our OutlookForums To disable Outlook 2011 from checking autodiscover after is it setup do this:.
Open Outlook if not running. Launch the AppleScript Editor and run the following script, changing NamOfAccount to match the actual name of the account listed in Outlook's account settings page. Tell application 'Microsoft Outlook' set background autodiscover of exchange account 'NameOfAccount' to false end tell To disable it for multiple Exchange accounts, use tell application “Microsoft Outlook” set background autodiscover of every Exchange account to false end tell To re-enable autodiscover, change false to true and re-run the script.