Outlook 2016 Autodiscover

[bryan_feuling]

We have been working through a few different issues with our Outlook 2016 setup internally. One of the issues was with our GAL and OAB not coming down.

Through the wisdom of @talkingmoose, it seems that the background autodiscover is the hinge on whether or not OAB/GAL downloads properly.

Here is the script that I developed on the backend in order to fix the issue:
AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    set acctName to name of default account
    set background autodiscover of exchange account acctName to true
end tell

Bash:

#!/bin/bash

sudo osascript << EOD 
tell application "Microsoft Outlook" 
    activate 
    set acctName to name of default account 
    set background autodiscover of exchange account acctName to true 
end tell 
EOD

I created an extension attribute in order to check whether or not the background autodiscover was turned on. This helped make a smart group that I can deploy the script to.
AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
    set acctName to name of default account
    get background autodiscover of exchange account acctName
end tell

Bash:

#!/bin/bash

discCheck=$(osascript -e "tell application "Microsoft Outlook"" -e "set acctName to name of default account" -e "get background autodiscover of exchange account acctName" -e "end tell")

echo "<result>${discCheck}</result>"

Hopefully this helps if you're wracking your head on this issue.