How to script Entouage Setup (MS Exchange 2003)

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humantag

We are going to be switching over from a standard POP3 email service to
an MS Exchange 2003 service and most of all our users are on Mac's
using Entourage 2004.

I was hoping to write a custom script that I could push out (or give
the the desktop support staff) that would create a new mail account
entry with the Entourage client with all the server settings.

Any ideas?
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

We are going to be switching over from a standard POP3 email service to
an MS Exchange 2003 service and most of all our users are on Mac's
using Entourage 2004.

I was hoping to write a custom script that I could push out (or give
the the desktop support staff) that would create a new mail account
entry with the Entourage client with all the server settings.

Any ideas?
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It is certainly possible. Most of the properties of exchange accounts are
scriptable. The questions that needs to be answered are:

1. How automated do you want it to be? Are you happy for a user to enter
their (new) email address in a dialog, or does the script have to pick it up
from a login name etc?

2. How experienced are you at scripting Entourage? Or scripting in General?
Do you understand how to read a script dictionary for entourage? If so, the
means to "make new exchange account with properties {...}" should be fairly
easy to f
 
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William Smith

humantag said:
We are going to be switching over from a standard POP3 email service to
an MS Exchange 2003 service and most of all our users are on Mac's
using Entourage 2004.

I was hoping to write a custom script that I could push out (or give
the the desktop support staff) that would create a new mail account
entry with the Entourage client with all the server settings.
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I've done this for work and can post an example of what I wrote later
this week after I return to work. Our Macs are bound to Active Directory
and I wrote the script to retrieve the user's short name and verify the
email address based on his login. It then sets up a new account in
Entourage with all the necessary information for LDAP and Public Folders
(hard-coded). Would this be of interest to you?

bill
 
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