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Help me get Entourage to play nice with my company's exchange server.

kdern — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:18:33 -0800

I need help fixing a problem with email on my Macbook. I am trying to get Entourage to play nice with my office's exchange server. I am running the latest version of Entourage on my Macbook (OSX Leopard).

I can get it to connect to my exchange server when I'm in the office by listing the exchange server as "fs1". With those settings, it doesn't connect when I am out of the office.

When I am out of the office, I have to change the exchange server setting to our exchange server address (our domain name, and then "/exchange". This setting does not work when I am in the office.

There are other problems - when I send an email from Entourage, it is not visible in Outlook back in the office (on my PC). Also, I'm not able to view our company's public contact lists on Entourage.

How can I set up Entourage to work both in and out of the office, and properly sync sent mail?

I am not against using Mac's Mail program or something else, if it will work better.

Thanks for any help.

Help me reach Gmail / mobile / desktop sync nerdvana

mjbraun — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:06:21 -0800

Please help me come up with a solution for automatically syncing Gmail, GCal, my desktop client and my mobile in one big data orgy. Currently I'm hosting my domain (email only) with Mailstreet and I'm relatively happy with their services and support. However, the siren song of "Gmail For Your Domain" has me entranced.

I'm in the market for a new mobile, and I'm looking at either a Blackberry 8800 or a Nokia E61i (when it comes out). Regardless, I want the full wireless sync of not only my email, but also my calendar and contacts (notes too, if possible). I can get this through Mailstreet if I sign up for the Blackberry service, but it's not cheap, and the storage space is limited (100Mb).

So I was wondering how I can set up automatic synchronization between my desktop PIM (I use Entourage, as I like having one app with all the data consolidated), my mail host, and my mobile as with the BES.

This sounds like something that Funambol would provide, but I'm not clear on the Gmail For Your Domain integration aspect.

The end goal will be I can add a contact on my mobile, and it just shows up on my desktop a few minutes later (the same with email, and calendar items). If I have to pay for Exchange, so be it, but I'd prefer to get away from it if possible.

Can Entourage and Exchange be friends?

genial — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:39:26 -0800

Help me make Entourage and Webmail play with each other. I have a coworker that heads up our PR for Athletics, on a mac. Currently he's on an IMAP server and checks webmail (Mirapoint) as well. He has a lot of groups in Entourage that he has created and would like them to be available in webmail for when he is on the road. Of course we've run into some difficulties.

Switching him to exchange didn't work, all the groups are local and there are no contacts associated with the groups. Outlook Web Access also does not have an import contacts feature. We put him back on IMAP and that webmail does have an import feature, however I can't find a way of exporting a group of contacts. The only way we've found works so far is to drag all contacts from a group into the address book so the corresponding contacts are created, then export the whole list and upload into webmail, which means he still has to go back and create the groups manually.

Am I missing something? Is there an easier way to either sync this all up with Exchange or export a set list instead of the entire contact list?

How can I convert Mac Outlook 2001 PST files to Windows Outlook 2003 PST files?

willnot — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:48:51 -0800

Is there a way to convert a .PST file created by Outlook 2001 for the Mac into a .PST file that can be read by Outlook 2003 on the PC?
Our company's e-mail is run on Exchange. Our marketing department uses mostly Macs. Up until now, we've been using Outlook 2001 in Classic mode. The new Intel Macs won't run Classic applications though.

So, I have some options. I can migrate the department to Entourage, or we can run the Windows version of Outlook using Parallels or some other option that I don't know about that you all can tell me about.

Entourage is Microsoft's recommended upgrade path, but it doesn't really work for us. The mail server admin doesn't want to enable a few critical services. As a result, we can't send mail. Also, I'd need a way to get access to 6+ years of past e-mail archives. I've tried Microsoft's PST import tool that is supposed to convert 2001 PST files into files that Entourage can use. In the past, it lost the full name of the senders in favor of the user name which I didn't like. Now, it's telling me that my 2001 PST files are corrupt or that they weren't created by Outlook 2001. Outlook 2001 still reads the files with no problem. Is there some way to repair them as far as PST Import is concerned?

Parallels seems to work (although it's sort of a resource hog, and I can't figure out how to do it over wireless. It connects to our network with no problem if I'm wired, but the router seems to get in the way if I'm using wireless -- despite the fact that the Mac can see the corporate network without a problem over wireless). However, I still need to find a way to get my archived e-mail into a format that works on Windows. Is there a tool out there that will do that? I'd hoped I could just copy the PST files over and it would work, but they seem to be different formats for some stupid reason.

As an aside, is it possible to use the same install of XP for both Parallels and Bootcamp? I suspect not, but it would be sweet if it was possible.

Or, is there a better method for using/archiving Exchange based e-mail on a Mac that won't run Classic?

How to delete mail without first moving it to the trash?

pmbuko — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:58:44 -0800

In Entourage 2004, with an exchange account, is there a way to immediately delete selected messages without first having to move them to the Deleted Items folder? I'm supporting a user who recently imported about a gig worth of email from his Eudora mail folders into Entourage. Turns out the import "lost" the correct received time stamp and now all those messages are timestamped with the date they were imported. I'm trying to delete all (>90,000) the messages without having to first move them to the Deleted Items folder, which nearly doubles the time it takes to delete them.

Any ideas?

Why does Entourage give permissions errors with Exchange?

MarvinTheCat — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:58:12 -0800

Exchange + Entourage + Permissions Filter. I request your assistance with one more hurdle on the road to Mac OS X groupware nirvana. Our predominantly Mac OS X 10.4 based office is testing out hosted Exchange with Entourage. I've created accounts for three of us—Corey, Karin, and Courtney. We all have the latest versions of OS X and Entourage and each of us set the permissions for our shared calendars and contacts to "Reviewer" for the other two individuals, which should allow the other two to access the calendars and contacts, but not make changes.

Karin's works fine: Courtney and Corey can both select "Open another user's folder" and enter Karin's name and bang! her calendar shows up on the other two computers. However, when Corey tries to access Courtney or vice-versa, we receive an error message that we do not have permission to access the folder. I've reset the permissions on both computers and checked the account settings on all three and they seem to match. Any suggestions?

One semi-related item: I notice that the calendaring, addressing and folder sharing are all based on either WebDAV or LDAP. Is there a way to use an open source calendar and contact server with Entourage, and bypass Exchange altogether? With regard to suggestions to switch clients, our office really likes the integration Entourage provides and the Palm syncing, so switching would be a tough sell. Thanks.

Using iCal with an exchange server

thebwit — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:20:16 -0800

Is there a way in Mac OS X to use iCal with an exchange server? Entourage for the Mac isn't all that wonderful compared to the built in Mail app and I like the ability to use the ldap server to look up names without an extra step. The only thing the Mail app is missing is integration with the calendaring events like Entourage has. Any help?