So oddly enough this problem just went away without any action on our part. We're blaming MS & O365.
Outlook 2016 "Allow this website to configure ExchangeGuid" message
We just took over a hybrid Exchange 2016/O365 mail environment & are on a learning curve....
Starting on or after approx. 3-18-2023 several users (lets say 12 out of about 600+) starting getting a message stating "Allow this website to configure ExchangeGuid+<useronlinearchiveGUID>@<domain.com>". Regardless of whether they click "Allow" or "Cancel" and/or click "Don't ask..." the message still pops up periodically and/or when launching Outlook & users Outlook behaves normally with the exception of the periodic message.
The only maintenance/change on the on-prem 2016 Exchange was we applied Security Update for Exchange Server 2016 Update 23 (KB5024296) & rebooted both mailbox servers on 3-16-23.
Looking at the Outlook Connection Status (CTRL-right-click Outlook system tray icon), the GUID in the message always correlates to an O365 online archive mailbox with an "Established" & the online archive mailbox can be browsed as expected. Sometimes it's the user's own online archive mailbox, sometimes it's a shared online archive mailbox.
All affected users & mailboxes are O365
All online archive mailboxes are O365
Clients are Outlook 2016 and current (2302/16130.20306)
Note that we have not run HCW after the update/reboot. Being new to the environment we're not sure whether this would help or is applicable given the behavior.
My apologies for the messy screen shots but you get the idea hopefully.
It really doesn't make any sense why it would only apply to online archive mailboxes & we're out of ideas.
Any suggestions?
-Dave
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Yuki Sun-MSFT 40,871 Reputation points
2023-03-31T03:09:31.4+00:00 Hi @Dave Dicken ,
Regardless of whether they click "Allow" or "Cancel" and/or click "Don't ask..." the message still pops up periodically...
What if launching Outlook as administrator and then click "Don't ask..." when the message prompts?
Note that we have not run HCW after the update/reboot.
According to the official blog below, the recommended practice is to re-run the HCW if you changed the auth certificate after installing the March 2023 SU:
Released: March 2023 Exchange Server Security Updates
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