Month: April 2020

Outlook connects to Office 365 Mailbox bypassing Autodiscover

Microsoft has added a new feature called Direct Connect starting with Outlook 2016 version 16.0.6741.2017 and all later versions. Its now by-default behavior of Outlook 2016 to automatically connect to Office 365 User Mailbox no matter Auto-discover records are pointing towards other exchange hosting provider. In Outlook 2013, there was a manual configuration feature which