Entourage and the Exchange global address list

[trmbr]

Can anyone please advise me how i can import or access an Exchange 2003
global address list from within Entourage?
I can access the GAL via LDAP (3268) however have to manually add the
entries to the Entourag Personal address list which isnt convenient as GAL
entries frequently change
Thanks in anticipation
Trevor

 

[William M. Smith]

Can anyone please advise me how i can import or access an Exchange 2003
global address list from within Entourage?
I can access the GAL via LDAP (3268) however have to manually add the
entries to the Entourag Personal address list which isnt convenient as GAL
entries frequently change

Hi Trevor!

I'm cross-posting your message into the
microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage newsgroup. You'll probably receive
some better responses there. Be sure to check that newsgroup as well as this
one for replies.

Good luck! bill

 

[trmbr]

Thanks William - much appreciated
regards
Trevor

 

[Dave Cortright]

You can simply type in the names of people you send to and use the Check
Names (Cmd-Shift-C) feature to look them up against the default LDAP server.

Also, as you send and receive mail with people, they will be added to your
recent addresses list, making it easier to address messages to them.

HTH.

 

[trmbr]

Hi Dave
Thanks very much for your reply - much appreciated.
Not quite the resolution I am after though as I was hoping to be able to
view the Exchange 2003 GAL without having to perform a name check or LDAP
query as does the Outlook 2K clients.

Does Entourage check to see if the originators name and e mail address
currently exist in the Entourage Address Book and detect possible email
address changes based on the store email address to the received email
address? The reason Im asking is that the originator might have changed the
default to an alias (eg for forwarding to different address).

Regards
Trevor

 

[M. Amir Haque [MSFT]]

first of all, no you cannot access the GAL in Entourage, in the same way as
you do in any version of Outlook on PC. The reason is that Outlook on PC
uses MAPI/RPC/TCP/IP based connection to Exchange and Global Catalog Server,
while Entourage does not use MAPI/RPC, rather it uses LDAP based access,
which does not provide browse feature of a container, you can only execute
queries against such a container, which you are accessing thru LDAP
protocol.

second, no, Entourage will not cross check the entries in its local cache of
recent addressed recipients or local address book against GAL/AD for their
validity. you will have to later delete them manually and perform the check
name process again.

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[trmbr]

Hi Amir
Thanks for both responses - much appreciated.
Is there any plan to develop an Entourage MAPI client ( as Outlook2001 for
the Mac) which will provide most of the Outlook 2002/3 features?
Ive investigated changing from Entourage to Outlook 2001 however an OSX
operating system downgrade is required which is unacceptable.
Regards
trmbr

 

[Dave Cortright]

Is there any plan to develop an Entourage MAPI client ( as Outlook2001 for
the Mac) which will provide most of the Outlook 2002/3 features?
Ive investigated changing from Entourage to Outlook 2001 however an OSX
operating system downgrade is required which is unacceptable.

I highly double Microsoft will ever release an OS X MAPI client. If you
require a MAPI client and OS X, you'll have to run Outlook 2001 in Classic
or run Outlook in Virtual PC (or RDC).

 

[trmbr]

Dave,
The client has refused to downgrade the operating system - but athanks for
your feedback.
will recommend dispensing with the apple macs tho.
regards
trmbr

 

[Dave Cortright]

Dave,
The client has refused to downgrade the operating system - but athanks for
your feedback.
will recommend dispensing with the apple macs tho.
regards
trmbr

You are aware that Classic is an emulated mode that runs within OS X, right?
Running Outlook 2001 in Classic does not require an OS downgrade.

 

[trmbr]

I wasn't aware Outlook 2001 runs in emulated mode (im not a Mac person), but
the client has advised he is not prepared to revert to Classic Mode.
will have to investigate further - thanks for your feedback

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

There's no "reverting" involved. Do you mean he "doesn't feel like using
Classic mode within OS X"? It works pretty well, so that's really just a
sort of prejudice. I don't enjoy using Classic all that much myself, but if
the only app that can do what he wants is a Classic app, that's what he'll
have to do. It's not the end of the world.

If he's misunderstanding and thinks that he would actually have to boot into
OS 9 - no he doesn't have to do do that. that would be a nuisance, sure. He
can run Outlook 2001 in Classic mode within OS X. No reverting needed.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.

 

[trmbr]

Paul,
Thanks.
Is there a "run mode setting" or a "config setting" in Outlook 2001 which
runs the application in "classic" mode?
Trevor

 

[William M. Smith]

Paul,
Thanks.
Is there a "run mode setting" or a "config setting" in Outlook 2001 which
runs the application in "classic" mode?

Hi Trevor!

Non-native (non-Mac OS X) applications will automatically launch Classic
mode the first time it is needed. Nothing has to be pre-configured in order
to run Outlook 2001 and using Classic will be nearly transparent. By default
Mac OS 9 (aka "Classic" if run under Mac OS X) is installed on all new Macs.

Outlook 2001 will require access to a DNS server to resolve the name of the
Exchange server to its IP address or you'll need to set up a Hosts file on
the Mac. If your client's network doesn't use DNS, I can provide you
instructions for setting up the Hosts file.

Hope this helps! bill

 

[Ronnie Ferrell]

Hi Trevor!

Bill, are you able to set up a host file on a newer Mac that cannot boot
into OS-9? I have a host file with the A and cname records in it and I have
no problem getting it to work on my old OS-9 machines and OSX machines that
can boot into 9. But my newer machines that coont boot into OS9 will not let
me run the OS9 TCP/IP control panel in classic to attach the Host file. And
for the life of me, I cannot find a way to do it in OSX natively.

And help with this would be most helpful.


Ronnie

 

[trmbr]

hi Bill
Thanks for the info - will be testing Outlook 2001 shortly.
A W2K3 server will provide DNS services. I assume similar network parameters
as in Windows clients i.e DHCP with DNS reference, can be configured in the
Mac ?
Regards
Trevor