On 2002-01-18 09:30 +0100, Terje Bless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there any way to get Calendar info from Exchange (Outlook) to
> Entourage�s Calendar?
> 
> Email works fine using IMAP/SMTP, but the Exchange Calendar just shows up
> as email messages. Is there any way to make Entourage either apply a
> �Calendar View� to the Exchange �Calendar� mailbox, or to make Entourage
> �import� the Mailbox as Calendar events?

according to MS developers, a server based groupware solution based
onto "iCal" standards used by Entourage is technical possible ... and not
available yet and there are no promises for any future MS products.

Entourage (in contrast of Outlook Client Mac) is meant to be a pure RFC
conformant client, therefore don't expect E. to connect to Exchange provided
calendars unless Exchange makes them fully accessible via iCal.
(for the interested reader -- there seem to be iCal based calendaring
open source projects in development at sourceforge)

> Oh, and how do people integrate Entourage with Exchange�s Directory? Can
> you add Exchange as an LDAP provider? Or talk to a W2K Active Directory
> server? Can you export an address list from Exchange and get that imported
> into Entourage somehow? Without E�rage choking when presented with about
> five thousand �Contacts�? :-)

Well, if Exchange or Active Directory share their databases via LDAP, there
should be no major problem -- either ask your admin or give some details ...
btw, why do you want to import five thousand Contacts if you have an LDAP
server available? Eventually E'rage doesn't permit to do so because working
from a local contact database is likely to spoil corporate goals?
;-)

You've done a lot of bashing (IMHO because not getting the distinction
between E'rage and Outlook Client right), but you missed a major and valid
point -- the missing ability of E'rage to write to an LDAP database.
Even the (now fortunately almost forgotten) Netscape 4.x clients
did provide that feature (because Netscape naturally was developed with
Netscape Messaging Server -- open standards based -- in mind).

Therefore -- though I appreciate the RFC-only approach very much --
I suspect MS to some degree avoids to make E'rage a suitable client for any
corporate messaging/groupware solution.

Of cause, they state E'rage is targeted mainly to private/power users
and admittedly they didn't fail in any way to address that target.

just my 0.02 cent, mixed up with a couple of complaints
suitable to direct E'rages evolution according to my personal needs ...
-Thomas

-- 
Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany

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