Hmm, maybe I worded that badly as that is not what I meant. It is just the auto-configuration of the account that will fail, you should still be able to set up an exchange account manually in Entourage once you find out all the right servers.
-Gil -----Original Message----- From: Lindsley Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:21 AM To: Entourage; Gil Gordon Subject: Re: [ANN] Office X Update 10.1.4 "Exchange Update" Oops. If I read condition 3 correctly, if connected remotely then there will be no way to proceed (at this time), period. If so, then my hopes are dashed if "yes" is required to this -- except when the Mac is actually in my office, networked. C'est la vie. Lindsley > From: "Gil Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:55:35 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [ANN] Office X Update 10.1.4 "Exchange Update" > > OK, here is a crack at the questions you need to ask. The answer to > all of them has to be yes to take advantage of all the new features in > Entourage: > 1. Are you running Exchange? > 2. Is it Exchange 2000? (Exchange 5.5 or earlier WILL NOT WORK) 3. Are > you connected directly to your network (as opposed to remotely)? > If so, Entourage can probably configure your account automatically for > you. All you need is your user name, domain and password. (In the > background, entourage is asking your DNS server for information about > your setup, so if you network setup is a little weird this process may > fail and you will need to configure the account manually) 4. Is IMAP > turned on (can't get mail without it). What is the server name? > 5. Is SMTP turned on (can't send mail without it). What is the server > name? > > Those of you who have been using Entourage to get exchange mail for a > while probably know the answers to the previous 2 question already. > > 6. Is HTTPdav/OWA turned on? OWA is Outlook Web Access, which is the > way that you can get to your exchange mail from a web browser. It uses > a particular protocol called HTTPDav (also called WebDAV) to do this. > Entourage piggybacks on this functionality to do calendar and contact > sync and to get free busy information. > 7. What is the Free/Busy server? This is actually the exchange public > folder server. Exchange publishes data about your calendar there so > that other people can see when you are available. This server entry > will take the form of my-server-name/public/ 8. What is the LDAP > server? This is also known as the Active Directory Global Catalog (or > GC). This is used to look up people's addresses. > > If you happen to have access to a PC running an Outlook 2003 beta that > is already connected to your server, you can find out all these server > names by control clicking on the outlook icon in the system tray and > then selecting "connection status..." > > Other things to note: > 1. you DO NOT need to add your domain before your user name. There is > now a separate field for it. > 2. it is possible you have SSL turned on for some or all of the > servers listed above. If you do, you need to check the SSL checkbox > for them in Entourage 3. it is possible but far less likely that your > IT folk have switched port numbers for these protocols. If they have, > you will need to track those in Entourage as well. > > HTH > -Gil > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Lach > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:36 AM > To: Entourage:mac Talk > Subject: Re: [ANN] Office X Update 10.1.4 "Exchange Update" > > On 8/5/03 6:10 AM, "Lindsley Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd like to see an illustration of >> what the data might look like so I can seek, then enter, information >> in the syntax that will work. Account (mailbox) and password are, I >> assume obvious; other entries aren't -- at least to me since my >> employer has multiple locations and, I assume, multiple mail servers >> and, of course, its in that other Microsoft environment. Thanks. > > Agreed. Or even a list of questions to ask your Exchange admin. Do we > use IMAP? SSL for the directories? Is there web access? Do I need to > include the domain before my username with a backslash? Etc. I've > downloaded the upgrade, but don't know enough to make it work with our > corporate system. > > -- > 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/> > > -- 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/>
