Mac/Entourage: Connect a Mac using Entourage 2008 to Microsoft Online Services
Hi All,
We have heard a few requests as to how to connect a Mac to our service.
For Beta, the the password changes will still have to be done in the Sign In tool.
When the service is officially released, the user will be able to change their password on the user company portals from a web browser.
This only works in Entourage 2008.
Note: There is no Free Busy information because we don't deploy public folders, and no GAL lookups since we don’t expose our LDAP servers publicly.
File->New->Account. Make sure you have already changed your given password using the Sign In tool on a PC first if this is a brand new account.
In the pop up box, hit the button in the lower left hand corner that says “Configure Account Manually”.
Email address is the email address you use to sign in with the Sign In tool.
Account ID is the name that you get when you use the Sign In tool to start LiveMeeting (on the upper left hand corner). Usually, the “@” is replaced by “_”. If your user name is "bob@contoso.com", it would probably be changed to something like "bob_contoso.com".
Domain is the very first part of the OWA address after the "https://", in the beta, that would be red001.
Exchange server is the OWA address + “/exchange/” + user email address. For bob@contoso.com on beta it would be https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/exchange/bob@contoso.com.
UPDATE:
We have gotten a few questions about getting some sort of work around for GAL lookups using Entourage with Microsoft Online Services. While a couple of Mac users within our team have written a GAL lookup add on for Entourage, we cannot officially release it as a Microsoft product due to various reasons.
However, there are a couple of Apple Scripts on the internet similar to our internal solution that will enable GAL lookups for Entourage connected to Microsoft Online Services
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/exchangelookups.html
http://www.xutils.com/owagalsearch/
Note: The above information is provided as-is and is NOT supported by the Microsoft Online Support Team at this time.
