Exchange 2000 and MAPI support?

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Trevor Page

Listers, we are having a bit of a quandrary @ a client's location.

We are contracted to provide Mac support for a large Canadian bank and
they are running Exchange Server 2000 as their groupware infrastructure.

Unfortuantly it has been VERY difficult to talk to the responsible
people to get the information as to what they have possibly tweaked on
their system. What I'm getting at is that all the Mac clients are
running Panther but have to use Outlook 2001 in Classic. What I'm not
sure of is if MAPI is still a standard supported protocol in Exchange
2000 or have they completely moved to IMAP, SMTP, OWA etc. now? I am
aware that Exchange 2000 supports these standard protocols now.

We would love nothing more than to move to Entourage (all the clients
have at least Office X installed) and ditch OS 9/Outlook 2001 forever,
however I'm getting conflicting reports from the bank that they have
disabled IMAP on the servers. How can clients get mail if IMAP is
turned off?? Unless they have turned it off and only run MAPI....

Any thoughts? I'm still hunting to find the right person/department to
answer this critical question. Any Exchange Admins out there care to
answer this?

Thank-you

Trevor Page
Senior Systems Engineer
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Trevor Page said:
We would love nothing more than to move to Entourage (all the clients
have at least Office X installed) and ditch OS 9/Outlook 2001 forever,
however I'm getting conflicting reports from the bank that they have
disabled IMAP on the servers. How can clients get mail if IMAP is
turned off?? Unless they have turned it off and only run MAPI....
Click to expand...

IMAP doesn't matter if you want to migrate to Entourage 2004. What you'd
need is WebDAV... (and LDAP to query the global address list).


Corentin
 
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Trevor Page

IMAP doesn't matter if you want to migrate to Entourage 2004. What you'd
need is WebDAV... (and LDAP to query the global address list).


Corentin
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OK, care to elaborate? I thought IMAP needed to be enabled to obtain
mail? Or am I not on the ball with Entourage? Are you saying that it
can retrieve mail from WebDav (OWA)?

Trevor
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Trevor Page said:
OK, care to elaborate? I thought IMAP needed to be enabled to obtain
mail? Or am I not on the ball with Entourage? Are you saying that it can
retrieve mail from WebDav (OWA)?
Click to expand...

That was true for Entourage X. The Exchange support was rewriten in 2004
to use WebDAV (OWA) for e-mail instead.

Corentin
 
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