Windows 10, Mandatory Profiles, Office 365 and Outlook 2016

[Katy]

Is anybody using mandatory profiles for staff, and using Outlook 2016 (full client) to connect to Office 365?

 

In the past we used something which ran at logon and set up the Outlook profile to connect to Exchange using %username%@school.com (can't remember what this thing was called but it was awesome, and we ran it with our Win7 student mandatory profiles). It doesn't seem to work with Office 365 as you get a https:// url that seems to change at random rather than being able to point it at the local Exchange server's name.

 

How does everybody else get round this? Ideally I want to bin off the roaming profiles we currently use for staff and go mandatory, but I don't want them to have to run through that Outlook first run wizard every time they log on somewhere.

 

Another sort of related thing is redirecting AppData - does anybody else do this? I've found that it breaks Outlook and ActivInspire if used with people who leave themselves logged in to multiple PCs at once, when they are both attempting to share data files off the redirected AppData.

[Michael]

Unless Staff require it, (fat Outlook) get them to use OWA.

 

Outlook 2016 is good if you need multiple accounts at once, or want to perform Mail Merge or similar, otherwise not possible in OWA. 99% of the users I support use OWA.

 

And no, I don't redirect AppData, I leave it 'as is'.