Setting Up Exchange Server

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rachaelneal

Hopefully someone will read this and help me! I am having no luck in
setting up Entourage with our Exchange Server at work. My IT guy
doesn't know anything about Macs, so he is hardly any help. I can't
seem to find the correct address for the exchange server or the LDAP.
Can someone walk me through this?
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hopefully someone will read this and help me! I am having no luck in
setting up Entourage with our Exchange Server at work. My IT guy
doesn't know anything about Macs, so he is hardly any help. I can't
seem to find the correct address for the exchange server or the LDAP.
Can someone walk me through this?
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For Excahnge you can usually find it on your own:
Comnect to the OWA page (Webmail) in your web browser and copy the URL.
You can use the URL directly in Entourage as the server address (*with
the http:// and everything).

LDAP is quite a different beast and I'm not sure you could find it
without help from the network administrator.
You're IT guy seems to be really unwilling to make the slightest effort
to assist you since LDAP is the same no matter what platform..... All
you need is the address of the server and a few additional parameters.
It woudl be the same on a PC if you wanted to use it from there,


Corentin
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

Hopefully someone will read this and help me! I am having no luck in
setting up Entourage with our Exchange Server at work. My IT guy
doesn't know anything about Macs, so he is hardly any help. I can't
seem to find the correct address for the exchange server or the LDAP.
Can someone walk me through this?
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First, what version of Exchange?

Second, do you know the address to get Outlook Web Access (to connect to the
exchange server with a web browser)? If so, this is the same address you put
in the exchange server setting in the entourage account settings dialog. The
most common form of this address is
https://servername.yourcompany.com/Exchange, but this can vary depending on
how things are set up. If your sysad cant figure it out, he probably has the
server set on default settings, which will give a url like the above.
 
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William Smith

Hopefully someone will read this and help me! I am having no luck in
setting up Entourage with our Exchange Server at work. My IT guy
doesn't know anything about Macs, so he is hardly any help. I can't
seem to find the correct address for the exchange server or the LDAP.
Can someone walk me through this?
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You can follow these instructions for setup of your Exchange Server in
Entourage: <http://entourage.mvps.org/exchange/exchangeatwork.html>.

To find out your servers, connect to your account using Outlook on a
Windows machine. While Outlook is running hold the Control key while you
click the Outlook icon in the System Tray near the clock. From the
pop-up menu select the option to check server status.

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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Christopher Boerger

Hopefully someone will read this and help me! I am having no luck in
setting up Entourage with our Exchange Server at work. My IT guy
doesn't know anything about Macs, so he is hardly any help. I can't
seem to find the correct address for the exchange server or the LDAP.
Can someone walk me through this?
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We just set one up ourselves. I'm in the same boat you are and had to figure
this out all by myself. For the LDAP portion of things it was OS X Directory
Access utility that helped me out. Go to /Applications/Utilities/ and open
Directory Access. Make sure the LDAP service is enabled. Then highlight it
and click "Configure". Click on the padlock and authenticate if you have to.

From there click "New." In the Server Name or IP address enter your Exchange
server location by domain (server.company.com) or by IP address. Try with or
without SSL (whichever gives you results).

In my case, it automatically detected the Active Directory template and had
the searchbase filled in. Copy that searchbase to your clipboard. Clicking
"Continue" does nothing for me, so click "Manual" and fill in the
Configuration Name.

Exit Directory Access and go to Tools -> Accounts, select your Exchange
account and click "Edit." Select the "Advanced" tab, enter the Exchange
server domain (server.company.com) and paste the search base values that you
got from Directory Access into the Search Base field. Make sure the SSL
toggle is turned on or off as is appropriate to your situation.

Exit and restart Entourage and your Global Address book should hopefully
work. Start an email message, type a letter in the To: field and click
"Check Names." If it's working, a window should pop up with your addresses.

Good luck...you'll need it.
 
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