Additional temporary Exchange account

[jameshurrell]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: Exchange Hello,

I'm supporting a user on Snow Leopard using Entourage 2008 and a hosted Exchange account. All is working fine. However, we are about to change Exchange hosting providers. I'd like a bit of reassurance about the best way to go about this for this use.

I have done this many times with Outlook as follows:

1) Have both physical Exchange accounts running at the same time on each host
2) Export existing account email/contact/calendar to PST file and save/backup
3) Swap MX records to divert email to new physical account
4) In outlook (as only 1 Exchange account can be configured for each profile) delete old Exchange account
5) Configure new Exchange account
6) Import PST and let it synchronise to new host
7) Use OWA on old Exchange account to catch nay mail not yet using new MX records

Obviously with Entourage things are different... but what would be the best way to go about this? I have heard it is possible to create multiple Exchange accounts within the same "profile" - if so this is what I'd do... is it then possible to just drag and drop mail/calendar/contacts from old account to new account?

Thanks for any advice about the best way to achieve this..

 

[jameshurrell]

Bump* Can anyone help me with this??? Thanks

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Obviously with Entourage things are different... but what would be
the best way to go about this? I have heard it is possible to create
multiple Exchange accounts within the same "profile" - if so this is
what I'd do... is it then possible to just drag and drop
mail/calendar/contacts from old account to new account?

Unlike Outlook for Windows, Entourage does support multiple Exchange
Server connections in one identity.

Go to Tools --> Accounts... and click the New button. Add as many
Exchange accounts as you like.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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