Exchange Calendar Entourage

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quinonez

Hello,

My company email and calendar is on an exchange 2007 server. i would
like to sync my calendar in entourage when i am out of the office and
off the network. I have a macbook with entourage 2004. Is there anyway
to set this up in entourage with OWA settings?

All responses appreciated.

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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hello,

My company email and calendar is on an exchange 2007 server. i would
like to sync my calendar in entourage when i am out of the office and
off the network. I have a macbook with entourage 2004. Is there anyway
to set this up in entourage with OWA settings?
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Absolutely. Actually it's by far the easiest way to set things up for
Exchange in Entourage.
- Open your OWA page in a web browser
- Copy the URL
- use the URL as the server address in Tools:Account>"your Exchange
account"

It works like a charm for me. Actually it's the one thing I can do in
Entourage, Outlook users around me can't do (from the outside, we have
OWA but not MAPI so they're out and I'm not :-> ).

Corentin
 
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Paul Williams

Sorry to butt in here. But desperation and all that.

Corentin... if you're connecting to an Exchange server through OWA; do you
have any problems with this...

///////snip!////////
A recent change to our Exchange server has rendered Entourage unable to
connect from outside of our domain. I now get a "bad username/password"
message when I try to connect from my Mac from home.

OWA in Firefox and Safari is still working.

The change that was made by our Exchange admin (at the behest of the men in
dark suits) was to...

SSL 2.0 has been disabled
128 Bit SSL encryption is required

I am told that the certificate we use should be happy in the "128-bit"
scenario, so could it be that SSL 2.0 is all that Entourage can work with?
///////snip!////////

And now back to your regular programming...

Thanks,

Paul
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Paul Williams said:
Sorry to butt in here. But desperation and all that.

Corentin... if you're connecting to an Exchange server through OWA; do you
have any problems with this...

///////snip!////////
A recent change to our Exchange server has rendered Entourage unable to
connect from outside of our domain. I now get a "bad username/password"
message when I try to connect from my Mac from home.
Click to expand...

I suere don't have that. COuld it be a conenction to a backend server
instead of a front end one?? (though the backend servber should simply
not be accessible - period.)

OWA in Firefox and Safari is still working.
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Then ther eis no reason why it shouldn't work. Entourage basically uses
OWA to get its Exchange data.
The change that was made by our Exchange admin (at the behest of the men in
dark suits) was to...

SSL 2.0 has been disabled
128 Bit SSL encryption is required
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With a self-signed certificate?? In this case you'd have to import the
certificate in your X509Anchors and that's it (we don't have SSL at all
on our server :-( ),

What puzzles me is that if you have a certifcate problem, you should get
a Certificate warning, not a bad username one.
Could it be that the Exchange entry in your keychain is corrupted?? Did
you try deleting it to let Entourage re-create a fresh new one?
I am told that the certificate we use should be happy in the "128-bit"
scenario, so could it be that SSL 2.0 is all that Entourage can work with?
Click to expand...

I don't think that this is the issue.
///////snip!////////

And now back to your regular programming...
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:)

Corentin
 
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Paul Williams

What puzzles me is that if you have a certifcate problem, you should get
a Certificate warning, not a bad username one.
Could it be that the Exchange entry in your keychain is corrupted?? Did
you try deleting it to let Entourage re-create a fresh new one?
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Will try the Keychain recreation. The cert was provided by our
Infrastructure team and has worked in the past. I wonder if Entourage really
IS complaining about the cert though rather than "bad username". Entourage
sometimes obfuscates -sending a message to a user with a full mailbox, for
example, produces a bounceback (but no actual information as to why the
message failed).
I assumed it was some E2004 bogosity, but I'll check the Keychain!

Thanks for the reply.

Pw
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Paul Williams said:
Will try the Keychain recreation. The cert was provided by our
Infrastructure team and has worked in the past. I wonder if Entourage really
IS complaining about the cert though rather than "bad username". Entourage
sometimes obfuscates -sending a message to a user with a full mailbox, for
example, produces a bounceback (but no actual information as to why the
message failed).
I assumed it was some E2004 bogosity, but I'll check the Keychain!
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I hope it'll work :-\

Corentin
 
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