UF Exchange
Announcements
Exchange AutoDiscover Configuration Service
On Sunday, April 1st, an additional method to the Exchange AutoDiscover Service will be enabled (DNS SRV record). This service assists with automatic configuration of Outlook based on a user's GatorLink email address for clients without access to UFAD. A campus-networked, domain-joined, Windows client's configuration method, Service Connection Point (SCP), will not change. Non-domain-joined clients using Outlook 2007 SP1 (released 12/07) and newer and Outlook for Mac 2011 will be able to have a similar automatic configuration as domain-joined clients. Once activated, non-domain-joined clients will receive a notification in Outlook requesting automatic configuration. (See figure below).
Users may check "Don't ask me about this website again" and select the Allow button. For non-domain-joined clients, you can suppress the notification by adding a registry entry (Outlook 2010, 2007) while logged on as the user; useful if you are often building such systems.
Example - Suppressing AutoDiscover notification for Outlook 2010: reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover\RedirectServers /v "mail.ufl.edu" /t REG_SZ
Outlook for Mac 2011 has not supported the SCP AutoDiscover method, but will now be configurable by the DNS SRV record lookup method.
Microsoft Lync Migration
Microsoft Lync replaced Microsoft Office Communicator (OCS) as the unified communications tool working with Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Office applications. Lync provides many of the features as set forth with OCS. Please contact your departmental IT support personnel if you have any questions not covered in the Lync documentation.
UF Exchange Transition to Exchange 2010
We are in the process of transitioning from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. While most clients will be unaffected by this upgrade, a small portion of Exchange users may need to be aware of a slight change in setup. During the transition period, affected users will need to use legacy.mail.ufl.edu rather than mail.ufl.edu as the server address for email clients. Although the URL change will happen behind the scenes for most users, some will have to make the change manually. Once the mailbox migration phase to Exchange 2010 is concluded, clients who manually changed the server address to legacy.mail.ufl.edu may have to change it back to mail.ufl.edu.
E-mail clients that are known to need the manual change include but are not limited to:
Apple Mail, Entourage, some clients using Active Sync (Palm Pre, older iPhones, Droid)
UF Exchange Phase II Now Open
UF Exchange is an email service for all university departments. UF Exchange lowers university operating costs by providing economies of scale in the provision of email services. To join UF Exchange, please contact the UF Exchange Team. They can discuss the process for migration including preparations as well as level of service and other questions you may have.