Entourage X & Exchange Server

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P. Withington

I just started working for a major company on a temporary basis and
am trying to use my Mac and Entourage X to connect via a VPN to their
Exchange Server. It would appear that they have to enable modes that
are not standard for their current operation of Exchange Server, i.e.,
IMAP, SMTP, HTTP DAV, and LDAP. Is it correct that these modes must
be enable just for a Mac Entourage client to use their Exchange Server?

If this is correct, how much work is this for their IT department? The IT
department is outsourced and charges for every little non-standard
thing. Therefore, I suspect that the chances of their making a change
for me are slim to none.
 
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Diane Ross

I just started working for a major company on a temporary basis and
am trying to use my Mac and Entourage X to connect via a VPN to their
Exchange Server. It would appear that they have to enable modes that
are not standard for their current operation of Exchange Server, i.e.,
IMAP, SMTP, HTTP DAV, and LDAP. Is it correct that these modes must
be enable just for a Mac Entourage client to use their Exchange Server?

If this is correct, how much work is this for their IT department? The IT
department is outsourced and charges for every little non-standard
thing. Therefore, I suspect that the chances of their making a change
for me are slim to none.
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For help with Exchange support with Entourage, check out:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/exchange_server.html
 
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P. Withington

Thanks for the information, Diane.

It appears to me after reading all the newsgroup information that
Microsoft has once agaiin fallen far short of what it should have
delivered to the Mac community. I just hope the European anti-trust
lawyers are more vigilant than their U.S. counterparts....

Paul
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

P. Withington said:
I just started working for a major company on a temporary basis and
am trying to use my Mac and Entourage X to connect via a VPN to their
Exchange Server. It would appear that they have to enable modes that
are not standard for their current operation of Exchange Server, i.e.,
IMAP, SMTP, HTTP DAV, and LDAP. Is it correct that these modes must
be enable just for a Mac Entourage client to use their Exchange Server?
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You need an Exchange 2000 server with IMAP (mail) and OWA (address book
and calendar sync) enabled (plus LDAP for the global address book).

As long as you meet these requirements, you should be able to connect
and use the server.
If this is correct, how much work is this for their IT department? The IT
department is outsourced and charges for every little non-standard
thing.
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These services might already be active. OWA is pretty standdard because
a lot of people want to use webmail to get their mail. LDAP is also
often active (even though some IT guys simply refuse to provide you with
the information for some reason I somply don't understand).
The inly thing that is not so standard is IMAP - the most important
one...

Corentin
 
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Diane Ross

It appears to me after reading all the newsgroup information that
Microsoft has once agaiin fallen far short of what it should have
delivered to the Mac community. I just hope the European anti-trust
lawyers are more vigilant than their U.S. counterparts....
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The Exchange update (exup) is a first step in bringing Exchange support to
OSX. Not all features available in Outlook 2001 have been able to be
incorporated into the release. Outlook 2001 had most of the work done, but
now it must be done all over again for OSX.

They could have waited until they had it all done, but would you want to
wait that long?
 
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