Manually configuring Outlook for Office 365 can be tricky. That’s what Autodiscover is for. But in some situations you have to be able to do a manual configuration in for example a pilot deployment. Here are the steps required.

The nice thing with this method is that we will be able configure Outlook without changing our Autodiscover DNS records. That means we can do a full Office 365 test deployment without affecting users in an on-premises Exchange environment.

The first step is to establish a remote PowerShell session to Exchange Online. Here we need the ExchangeGuid attribute from our mailbox. Copy this value and save it for later.

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Redeeming your key is what links your Microsoft account with this version of Office so you only have to do this once. Then go to www.office.com and if you're not already signed in, select Sign in. Click Install Office button to download. Here is the reference for you: Download and install or reinstall Office 365 or Office 2019 on a PC or Mac. Finally, launch any Office app and sign in with your Office 365 or Microsoft 365 account. For a demo of these steps, and an example of how to automate this process with Jamf Pro, watch this video. Upgrade to Office 2019 for Mac: If you're a volume licensed customer, you can upgrade to Office 2019 for Mac without uninstalling Office 2016 for Mac.

The next step is to launch the New Profile Wizard in Outlook. We will go for the option to do a Manual setup.

In the next screen we select that we have a Microsoft Exchange Server.

Now it’s time to enter the exchange server name. Here we need the ExchangeGuid from the first step. Write the Guid followed by @ and the email domain. The user name is our Office 365 user name.
Now click More Settings.

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On the Security tab we select Anonymous Authentication.

On the Connection tab check the box to connect using HTTP and click Exchange Proxy Settings

Fill in all values as below

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Click OK to close all windows. You will be asked for credentials, fill in your Office 365 username and password.

Now our Outlook Profile is ready to use and Outlook is configured for Exchange Online, without using Autodiscover.

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