Turn off Autodiscover for Outlook

Moved a client from an onsite Exchange server to a cloud cased Exchange server ( Office 365 ) and had the constant problem of Outlook ignoring what I had set as the server address and instead looking for the Local Exchange server.

In the end the good folks at Office365 pointed me toward a registry hack to stop Outlook from ignoring what I had set… thanks MS…
Open regedit and go here;

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0/14.0 \Outlook\AutoDiscover

Then create a DWORD called ExcludeScpLookup and give it the value of 1.
Yes, you’re right, if you give it a value of 0 it turns it off again. Great if you’re in the midst of going back and forth to grab data/settings/etc.