Just when Microsoft released the EWS update for Microsoft Entourage, today it announced that it will be replacing Entourage with Microsoft Outlook for the Mac. Outlook for the Mac will be included in Microsoft Office Business Edition and be released at the end of 2010 more than likely. Maybe there will finally be an AutoArchive for Mac OS X?
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Entourage Web Services Edition Available
For those who have been waiting for a time when Entourage uses less bandwidth, has enhanced support for EWS features and well, works better, the time has come. The beta came and went and we waiting. And the wait is now over. Entourage Web Services Edition is now available for download. You only really need this if you have an Exchange Server 2007 environment and can support EWS.
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Using Microsoft Document Connection on a Mac
Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac earlier this week. Once you have installed Service Pack 2 you may notice the new Open from Document Connection File menu item for office applications, or you may notice the new application called Microsoft Document Connection located in your /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 folder. These are all part of Microsoft’s overall Software+Services strategy: provide a cloud type of environment that is able to sustain the software that you purchase from them. In this case it could be a private document storage “cloud” running on a SharePoint server or it could be a more public environment running in the Office Live…
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iPhone and GroupWise
There is no built-in support for GroupWise on the iPhone. Apple supports a number of other services, but GroupWise has not been high on the priority list and honestly, I don’t know that it would be high on mine either… Having said that, it did pop up on my radar and I was able to find a couple of ways to achieve a good sync. The first is Entourage. You can use Entourage as a conduit to then grab information and sync it with GroupWise. This has a hopefully obvious disadvantage, which is that it does not synchronize wirelessly – you have to cradle sync to get the data onto…
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Design Considerations: Exchange 2007 and the Mac
In Exchange 2007, the Client Access Server (CAS) role accepts connections from clients in order to allow them access to the Exchange Server infrastructure (mailboxes, public folders, GAL, etc). CAS accepts connections from: POP3 and/or IMAP4 clients Outlook Web Access (OWA) and/or OWA Light clients Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) clients 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…
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Address Book.app and Exchange Contacts
Over the years Apple has slowly been adding Exchange functionality to a number of their products, quietly. While Snow Leopard is reported to add even more functionality there are still a number of things you can do with Exchange from the Mac OS X client. For example, Address Book can pull information from your Exchange contacts. This isn’t to say that every single field will work, but the basics do work – and pretty well. 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: Now click…
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Deployment Considerations for OpenOffice.org 3.0.1
A number of school districts and companies around the country are currently looking at buying the next version of Microsoft Office and a surprising number of school districts are starting to shift towards OpenOffice.org. However, there is not as much traction on the corporate side of the fence. So what does it mean to switch to OpenOffice? To me it’s all about training. OpenOffice is able to do almost everything that Office can do. It’s mature in the 3 release and it’s of course, open source and therefore doesn’t require you to purchase it. However, OpenOffice is a drastic change for some users. Sometimes features are in different places or…
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Exchange 2007: Change Default Domain with PowerShell
Your users sick of typing in their domain name in the OWA auth screen? Well, here’s the PowerShell command to make it where they don’t have to any more: Set-OWAVirtualDirectory -Identity “owa (default web site)” -LogonFormat username -DefaultDomain krypted.com Since you’re not using https://krypted.com/ as your mail domain swap that out with your domain name of course. And if you want to use it for the other virtual directories of OWA, such as Exadmin then run it again swapping out the owa with the VD you’re using. Oh, you can do it through the Exchange Management Console too, but the GUI isn’t as much fun. But if you do decide…
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Blackberry 4.5 Update
Been updating Blackberries in Exchange environments from 4.2 software to 4.5, mostly so they can view Free/Busy times on the devices. For the first few, I’m doing it manually by connecting the device to the USB port and updating it from within Desktop Manager, but I’ll be doing the rest OTA (over the air). For more on the update, check it out on the crackberry forums.
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The Danger of RBLs
So ordb.org has been dead for awhile. If you had an inactive server that was using ordb.org as your Realtime Black-List server on that box and you bring it back up then you won’t accept email from anyone any more. Reason being is that every time your server goes to receive an email and does a lookup on an RBL if it cannot reach the RBL then it will receive no email. Furthermore if your server cannot communicate with the RBL server then you will reject mail. So while RBLs will save you from massive amounts of spam they can actually be used to attack your server. For example, the…