This is a well established script and you might be able to adopt someone else’s solution with just a few hours or reading or even less if you already script on macOS. However, Autodiscover can also provide information to configure clients that use other. For Exchange Web Services (EWS) clients, Autodiscover is typically used to find the EWS endpoint URL. You’ll always come out ahead in that case. From the Mail menu, choose Preferences, then click Accounts. The Autodiscover service minimizes user configuration and deployment steps by providing clients access to Exchange features. Also remember, at some point, no automation will save you time if you spend more time learning than just setting up a handful of Macs but conversely, no amount of time will be wasted if you can never set things up manually. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I don't know if I should trust this source This thread is locked. I would start small and then iterate, solve little problems first and then get more complete over time as you can save time based on how many machines you are setting up. Why am i being asked to allow autodiscover-s.outlook to configure my settings on Outlook for Mac. If that’s too dry or verbose, you can start with a much nicer package of 25 pages of wiki goodness on setting up Outlook. Microsoft has employees that are on the mac admin slack and publicly provides training documentation on the preferences that the Outlook app and office suite have for easing on boarding.

Mac administrators script this all the time.

Outlook autodiscover on mac