Omar Shahine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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?
>
>If you are using Exchange 2000 and you download any of those e-mail
>messages they actually get added to your calendar
This is because Exchange 2k changed it�s format to iCal?
>If you are using Exchange 2000 and you download any of those e-mail
>messages they actually get added to your calendar (because as e-mail
>messages we treat them as iCal meeting requests and auto add them).
>The problem with this is that it's a one way sync. Changes made to
>events won't bet picked up by Entourage.
That�s ok in my setup. I just need to get stuff out of Exchange. While it
would be nice to have full support, I can�t ditch the `doze box on my desk
anyway, so I just need it for when I�m home/on the road and using my
TiBook.
Is it conceivable that I might be able to AppleScript this? I�d rather not
have to manually open/add each �message�. Is there any way to make
Entourage open each �message� in that �mailbox� and add it to the local
Calendar? How about getting enough info out of it to filter out events that
have allready been added (date/time and �Subject� should suffice I think)?
If this is actually possible I�ll be more impressed then you can imagine.
Well, I�ll probably berate someone for the sloppy security, but impressed
nonetheless! :-)
I suppose I could always dredge stuff out by talking IMAP with the server
from Perl (or �insert favourite scripting language here� ;D), but I expect
the problem will be in auto-adding it to E�rage�s Calendar; unless I could
fool the Import function into auto-adding from a disk file or something?
If none of this is possible, and the feature isn�t added to the next
version, might I suggest the ability to apply a Calendar �View� to some
random IMAP mailbox? AFAICT this is actually exactly what Outlook does;
while there is some special logic to deal with Scheduling and such, the
store is just another IMAP mailbox that Outlook applies it�s �Calendar�
view to. There is nothing stopping you from viewing the Calendar mailbox as
any other view -- the same as you Inbox, say -- if you should want.
It would obviously still hinge on whether or not the thing was in iCal
format (why not read-only support for �Exchange-format� BTW?), but if
Exchange 2000 deals with that...?
>>Oh, and how do people integrate Entourage with Exchange�s Directory?
>
>Entourage does LDAP and depending on what version of NT/Exchange
>you're running you can access the directory by setting up an LDAP
>account and pointing it to either the Exchange server (if you are
>running Exchange 5.5), or the Active Directory Server (if you are
>running Win2K).
And the relevant bits of LDAP magic to add to the account would be? Oh, and
an �LDAP Account� came up; WTF is that, would my Microsoft Certified Grand
Poobah (he�s a Certified Trainer, experienced in managing Exchange, and a
couple of other things) know what it is, and, if not, how do I get me one
of them thar LDAP Account thingies? :-)
URLs to Technet Whitepapers discussing using Exchange/AD as a LDAP root
from non-MS clients would be _much_ appreciated!
>Now, if the AD server requires anything besides basic authentication
>this will not work as our LDAP code cannot authenticate using anything
>greater than basic authentication (basically any challenge/response
>auth system).
Not even with the MS UAM installed? As far as I could tell from the
piss-poor documentation, it gives you NTLMv2 which, again AFAICT, is what
NT4 uses by default. Or does that fall under the �basic auth� umbrella? How
about Kerberos? Since Kerberos _is_ an Internet standard and, some MS
extensions in the vendor-specific fields aside, should in that sense be
unproblematic to implement in Entourage (a right royal PITA from a
development PoV, but no problem from a IETF purist PoV).
-link, who�s wishing MS would release a MS �UAM� that lets Mac OS X
authenticate to a W2K Domain Controller and an Entourage that
did that extra little bit that�s needed to work �well enough�
with Exchange without compromizing standards compliance...
--
To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/>
old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
