Mac/Entourage: Connect OS X 10.5 and Entourage 2008 12.1.2 to Microsoft Online Services
For our international release, please use the following Exchange server addresses depending on where you bought Microsoft Online Services.
North America - https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com
Europe - https://red002.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com
Asia - https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com
This is an update to our previous post about Mac connectivity to our service. The setup is similiar, and somewhat easier.
What you need:
Mac OS X 10.5
Entourage 2008 12.1.2
Safari 3.1.2
For Beta, the the password changes will still have to be done in the Sign In Application.
When the service is officially released, the user will be able to change their password on the user company portals from a web browser.
File->New->Account. Make sure you have already changed your given password using the Sign In application on a PC or the web portal 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 application.
Account ID is the name that you get when you use the Sign In application. This should be the same as your EMail address.
Exchange server is the OWA address + “/exchange/” + user email address. For bob@contoso.com, it would be contoso.mail.microsoftonline.com/exchange/bob@contoso.com
Make sure you check the box right below it "This DAV service requires a secvure connection".
NOTES:
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.
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.
