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One thing that was a bit confusing to me is what Beau and I discovered to be a GUI bug, where when you click on a manifest and then click on Once, Often or Always, you have to click on the disclosure triangle in order to get the button to add a New Key. Given that there is a new service, Address Book, I would have expected to see a com.apple.addressbook, especially since the property list isn’t exactly welcoming for edits. But what I haven’t seen any mention of thus far in the manifests is Exchange 2007 support. No EWS strings, no nothin’. But all in all, I think it’s still coming together a bit and I look forward to seeing a cohesive vision of leveraging managed clients to automatically push out iCal, Address Book and Mail, no matter what service you’re using, to clients.Similar Articles:

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We’ll cover SharePoint integration some other time, but for now, let’s look at the Live environment. Before you setup your computer, first login to your Microsoft Live account at home.live.com. Once you are signed in, click on the More menu and click on Office Live. If you see a button for Get Started for Free, click it; otherwise you should be looking at a screen with an icon in the left column for New Workspace. Click it and then type something that indicates a project or a group of documents you might upload. For example, I’ll just type Mac OS X Security 2nd Edition.

Now that you have a workspace, open up the Microsoft Document Connection application in your Office directory. From here, click on Add Location… and then click on Sign In to an Office Live Workspace… At the dialog box, enter the name and password you use to log into Microsoft Live, clicking Save when you’re done. Now you should see the name of your live account in the Document Connection screen, along with any workspaces you’ve created. You can drag documents into this screen, double-click them to open or control-click them to edit (and you can edit from non-Microsoft applications). At this point you have something similar to Jungle Disk or another application you use to access a cloud service from a Mac.

But Document Connection isn’t just about one user accessing documents. It supports sharing documents between users, commenting on documents and even document check-in and check-out. The portal is where you setup most of the Sharing: use the share button, type the address of who you want to share to, they can then access via the portal or using Document Connection with their own account. Commenting is also available in the portal, much as with a solution like Final Cut Server. Document check-in and check-out seems to require SharePoint and not be a feature of Office Live, but I’ll let you know if I can find a way to do it.

Overall, this is a great addition. Some other products are more mature, but as usual, Microsoft has taken the best from a number of competitors and made an extremely simple to use and intuitive sandbox. The uploads and downloads fail at times. The portal relies on constant communication from Silverlight so sometimes it throws an error. But those are minor issues. This is a great new product that I look forward to integrating into a number of environments. I’ll get to the SharePoint side in the next few days and do a write-up on it as well!Similar Articles:

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The second and third options are outsourced services that just handle everything for you. Of these, GroupWise Sync is a great option (they have a free version that just grabs mail or pay-per-month for contacts and calendars) as is the monthly version of the CompanionLink GroupWise sync. CompanionLink has a separate desktop client, but much of what it does can be obtained by using GroupWise 6.5 along with Office 2003 and iTunes to synchronize contacts and calendars while cradled.

Finally there’s NotifyLink, which works with Exchange, Kerio, Gmail, CommuniGate Pro, FirstClass, Scalix, Zimbra and about anything else you could ask for, providing synchronization services to iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Symbian.  In short NotifyLink is the Swiss Army knife of the mobile sync world.  Take anything, sync to pretty much anything else, for a monthly fee.  Just make sure your users look at the results before you put it into production en masse as it is a little different than the standard screens they’re used to seeing in some cases…Similar Articles:

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Entourage falls into this category, and so when you are deploying Exchange 2007 alongside Entourage you will point your clients at your host running CAS.  This is a change from previous versions, where you could enable IIS on any host and point clients there; however, it is similar in that CAS is very similar to the front end functionality that this option entailed.

There are certain design considerations CAS imposes, as well as benefits to how things were handled in Exchange 2003.  With Microsoft Outlook clients, you could migrate a mailbox between Exchange Servers and Outlook would read the new location of the mailbox automatically and reconfigure itself for the new server.  This has never been a feature of Entourage (although you can use a clustered pair), but now you point all clients to your CAS host and the mailboxes can then be moved between Storage Groups and Servers without having to touch the clients.  However, if you change CAS servers you may find yourself performing some client reconfiguration.

In smaller environments, where ports are directly coming into the server from the WAN, you won’t find the CAS role to be a big design consideration.  Clients can simply connect over port 80 or 443 (not including the LDAP lookups obviously).  But in larger environments where all data needs to be proxied in some way, you may find the move to a CAS role complicated.  Here, look to Microsoft’s IAS server, which would be placed into the DMZ and then allow connections from Entourage and other ActiveSync/OWA clients.

A number of people have been asking about ActiveSync clients, for Snow Leopard.  The same principles will apply for Mail.app, provided it is a true ActiveSync client: simply point Mail.app at your CAS host.

One of the key reasons why Exchange adoption is so prolific is Public folders.  Public folders are likely on their way out, giving way to replacing the concept with Microsoft SharePoint.  I’m not going to say I love nor hate the idea, but in many institutions Public folders have been around for a long time, and while you likely will have until 2016 (worse case) to retire them, sometimes it takes as long to retire something as it took to build it in the first place…  In the meantime, many of the common tasks for managing Public folders are going to require you to hop into PowerShell, so keep that PowerShell book close at hand if you find you’re doing a lot of work with Public folder management (New-PublicFolder -name BillyBob).  Just something to keep in mind.

Finally, Exchange 2007 has a number of features for automatic archiving of data.  Entourage has no features for auto-archive.  So consider leveraging Exchange’s built in features, or as we’ve seen in some environments, having an out-of-band solution for managing archiving of mail to pst (or whatever format you prefer).Similar Articles:

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To connect to your Exchange server from Address Book, open the program and then open the Preferences menu.  From the General tab check the box for Synchronize with Exchange as seen here:

Address Book Synchronize to Exchange

 Now click on the Exchange… button and enter your user name, password and Outlook Web Access Server (OWA Server, or if you only have one Exchange server, the name/IP of the host).  For the Outlook Web Access Server you’ll also want to make sure you have the Fully Qualified URL of the host you use to access your mail, rather than just the IP address for example.  If you would like for synchronizations to occur automatically go ahead and click on the Synchronize Every Hour checkbox.  

Exchange Sync Settings

 

Saying that Apple has been quietly developing it and saying that it works like a charm though, are two separate topics.  Don’t expect to be able to also synchronize with other services.  This is a recipe for mass duplications of contact data.  Also, don’t expect it to work flawlessly.  It can be problematic, although not always.  In short – if you’re going to try this, make good backups early and often.Similar Articles:

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