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Mac 10.6 MAC Mail and SBS 2003

Asked by: kseath

I have a client hell bent on not using Entourage for connectivity between his new MAC and exchange 2003.  I have searched around and nothing really makes much sense.  I hear IMAP or POP3 and while POP3 is easy he wants his calendar and all that function too.
 
Can anyone tell me if there is a compete white paper or some reason that I am missing that explains how to do this?

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2009-09-20 at 22:46:03ID24747513
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Mac 10.6 MAC Mail and SBS 2003

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Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

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Snow Leopard (OS 10.6)

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SBS Small Business Server

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by: JasonPJohnsonPosted on 2009-09-20 at 22:55:42ID: 25380516

Just use IMAP/pop if he only wants to use mail.app

Entourage(outlook for mac) will give you the full integration but it doesn't work remotley very well only over a VPN or internally.

Exchange 2003 on SBS 2003 will not support this type of integration tight integration.

Mac clients only support "outlook anywhere" if you have a SBS 2008 server with rollup 9 on it. Running Exchange 2007 and OSX 10.6 will integrate the entire setup mail.app ical, address book.

 

by: jhyieslaPosted on 2009-09-21 at 05:22:46ID: 25382136

Mail doesn't work really well with Exchange unless you have moved to Exchange 2007. I had it set up at one time, but was incredibly unhappy with how it didn't integrate with Exchange. If you are running 2003, then you have two really viable options. One is Entourage. It's not Outlook for the Mac, unfortunately, but it does a pretty good job of integrating with Exchange.  The other option is to run a VM program like VMware Fusion or Parallels so that you are running a version of Windows on the Mac desktop and then you have use Office for Windows and have real Outlook connectivity.  Both VM products have a mode that totally integrates the Windows desktop into the Mac's and Windows apps appear to run right next to Mac apps.

I believe that both companies have eval versions that you can download and try for 30 days. And the costs are very reasonable. I don't know that either company has come out with an official statement that they truly work under Snow Leopard, but I've been running the latest shipping version of Fusion since SL shipped without incident.

 

by: MPECSIncPosted on 2009-09-21 at 07:06:25ID: 25382933

I have not had a chance to set one up yet.

But, the FQDN of your SBS is what you put in the Exchange server field:
 https://mysbs.mysbsdomain.local
 Username/Password
   or
 Domain\Username/Password

That should enable the mail program to connect to Exchange.

They will lose a lot of the advanced functionality that Entourage gives them.

BTW, BTDT! :)

Philip

 

by: sgoeldnerPosted on 2009-09-21 at 10:30:05ID: 25385311

Snow Leopard's macmail only supports exchange connectivity with exchange 07 sp1 rollup 4 minimum.
So pop or imap is the only way to go with exchange 03.

 

by: kseathPosted on 2009-09-21 at 14:55:59ID: 25388042

So will Imap and POP give him mail AND calendar functionality or just MAIL with the MAC mail app?  

any ideas about public folder access?  I personally don't see him happy with it no matter what I do, but i don't want to chase this around for a week if it is not even possible.

 

by: sgoeldnerPosted on 2009-09-21 at 16:48:25ID: 25388725

I believe with imap you get calendar but not positive as I have not use imap in mac mail app. All my clients are using entourage with exchange 03. I do have a client who I am upgading to snow leopard mac 10.6 tomorrow just for exchange functionality in mail but the have exchange 07 sp1 rollup 9.

 

by: kseathPosted on 2009-09-25 at 13:41:25ID: 31631291

Basically there is no good answer to this question.  I know entourage works, but that is not what he wants to use so it is no good too me.  thanks everyone for you input.

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