Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : Entourage

Connecting your Mac to Microsoft Online Services International Release

kevw@microsoft.com — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:10:00 GMT

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

What you'll need:
Mac OS X 10.5
Entourage 2008 12.1.2
Safari 3.1.2

The user need to change their password in the company portal page before attempting to set up Entourage.

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, in the US datacenter, it would be red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/exchange/bob@contoso.com.

You can find out which datacenter you're in by going to your OWA.

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 are working on these issues, but we do not have a time frame as of now.

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/

Mac/Entourage: Connect OS X 10.5 and Entourage 2008 12.1.2 to Microsoft Online Services

kevw@microsoft.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:59:00 GMT

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.

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.

Mac/Entourage: Global Address List (GAL) Access for Entourage 2008

kevw@microsoft.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:44:00 GMT

We have gotten a few questions about getting some sort of workaround 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 Services Support Team.

Mac/Entourage: Connect a Mac using Entourage 2008 to Microsoft Online Services

kevw@microsoft.com — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:57:00 GMT

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:

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.