Entourage 2004 and Exchange

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Dan Crane II

So I bought Office 2004 so my wife could use our Powermac at home
instead of having to lug home her pc laptop or use Virtual PC with
Outlook 2003. Using Office X, I was able to use calendar and adress
book and it would actually sync up. Now that I am using Entourage
2004, I only receive data from the exchange server, and get an error
that the calendar info and adress book info will not sync back to the
exchange server....one way communication. Email does not sync up at
all. I understood that in Office X, you had to use IMAP, but it was
my understanding that this was no loger necessary in Office 2004. I
do not know what version of exchange server her office is using, and
she has to be connected in via VPN to get a connection with her
exchange server. Any help or insight would be appreciiated.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

Hi Dan,
I understood that in Office X, you had to use IMAP, but it was
my understanding that this was no loger necessary in Office 2004.
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ENtourage now channels everything through the OWA server through WebDAV.
If you setup Entourage to this server (which might be different from the
previous Exchange server you used through IMAP) you should get mail, address
book and calendar synching altogether (hopefully :-\ ).


Corentin
 
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Dan Crane II

Thanks for the Tip.

However, in Entourage 2004, it has 2 different lines:

"Exchange server:"_____________
"Name:" . _____________

On which line does the https:// address of the OWA belong? And are
you saying that the name of the OWA is different than the name of the
real exchange server than I was using previously? or is the name the
same with a different address.

If you could be more specific, that would help immensly.

It seems like we are making some real progress here.....

Thanks again for the help.

Dan Crane II
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the Tip.

However, in Entourage 2004, it has 2 different lines:

"Exchange server:"_____________
"Name:" . _____________

On which line does the https:// address of the OWA belong? And are
you saying that the name of the OWA is different than the name of the
real exchange server than I was using previously? or is the name the
same with a different address.
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Actually, you're connecting to the OWA server through SSL, but it doesn't
mean you have to enter https in the address.
if the OWA server is https://my.server.com/exchange/me then enter
my.server.com on the "Exchange server" line and in the Advanced pane, check
the box that says "DAV requires SSL" (only check this if you access OWA
through https instead of http)
The Name field is for your user name.

Corentin
 
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Eric Kwang

Corentin Cras-Méneur said:
Hi Dan,



Actually, you're connecting to the OWA server through SSL, but it doesn't
mean you have to enter https in the address.
if the OWA server is https://my.server.com/exchange/me then enter
my.server.com on the "Exchange server" line and in the Advanced pane, check
the box that says "DAV requires SSL" (only check this if you access OWA
through https instead of http)
The Name field is for your user name.

Corentin
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Hi Dan,

Corentin is correct--Entourage 2004 makes Exchange support much better.
In Entourate 10.1.4, I could never get the calandering function to work
(ie, inviting people to attend a calendar event or accepting a meetin
request, except for when I had my iBook in the office). Now, except for
the Entourage 2004 crashes, all is ginger peachy. What version of
Exchange Server does your wife's company use? And, you ought to be able
to use the Outlook 2003 settings to set up Entrouage 2004 also.

Hope this helps!!
Eric
 
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