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In order to disable auto-discover from running continually from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac after the first configuration of the account, follow the below steps:

1) Open Microsoft Outlook.

2) Run the Apple Script Editor and run the below, substituting <Account Name> for the display name of your Microsoft Exchange account..

tell application “Microsoft Outlook”
set background autodiscover of exchange account <Account Name> to false
end tell

You can also disable auto-discover for all Microsoft Exchange accounts

tell application “Microsoft Outlook”
set background autodiscover of every Exchange account to false
end tell

In order to enable auto-discover  change false to true and run the above steps.