[horde] Outlook 2016 and ActiveSync

[Volker Then]

Quoting Volker Then <horde40 at volkerthen.com>:

> Hi guys,
>
> did anyone of you manage to make Outlook 2016 work with Horde  
> ActiveSync? It countlessly asks for username and password, there is  
> no real manual setup. If I try username at my-horde-domain.com it is  
> not working too. We don't use full email addresses as login, just an  
> old-school username (which has mostly nothing to do with the email  
> addresses associated to the account).
>
> I tried "Exchange", I tried "Outlook.com" and even "Office365". No  
> sucecss at all. Autodiscover for said domain is set up, and works  
> properly in Outlook 2013. With Outlook 2016 I only see 401s and 200s  
> in apache's logfile, when Outlook tries to get the autosdiscover  
> file, but it never downloads the xml file.
>
> Is - at the end - activesync functionality removed from Outlook 2016  
> or what am I missing? But old accounts, which OL 2016 took over from  
> 2013 after the "upgrade", are still working.
>
> Some of our clients are switching now to OL 2016, and I am kinda  
> lost with that piece of ****. ;-)
>
> Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance
>
> Volker
>
>
>

What a crap... I found the solution. Seems you can not really set up  
an ActiveSync account in Outlook 2016 itself. You have to use the  
control panel for that purpose:

Control panel -> Mail -> Show profiles -> Add -> and here you go...


Volker