Hi Christopher!
If you leave that field blank then Entourage assumes the Exchange Server
from the Account Settings tab is your Delegation Server.
If you enter just the first part of that server address you're still
trying to get to the same place. Are you sure that you don't need to
specify a different server as your Delegation Server?
Hey William,
I'm pretty sure the delegate server is the same but can't be 100% sure as I
have no access to the Exchange server. We're pretty much dead in the water
now. After suggesting trying some suggestions from Microsoft Knowledge Base
our server admin replied:
"I am hesitant to start making random changes to the Exchange Server to test
theories -- unfortunately, when a change is made to the IIS or Exchange
servers, it cannot be undone by simply removing or disabling it, and it
sometimes requires re-install of IIS or Exchange Server to correct such
changes. If you accidentally remove a checkmark for a front-end or back-end
Exchange Server setting, for example, it removes links to many different
things, including the server certificates. Each of those events then have
to be re-installed/configured. I've been there before, and don't want to go
there again...
....I talked with a friend of mine that works for the Great Lakes region
Microsoft office, and asked him if he could point me to someone in his group
that could help with getting Entourage to play well with Exchange Server
2003, and he wise-cracked, 'Tell them to use VMware and Outlook 2003...'.
Wasn't very helpful, but I'm used to it..."
Thanks Microsoft for hobbling your own product, making your preferred (and I
emphasize YOUR preferred) product a nightmare to use and making life
difficult for your users. On top of that, when we ask for your help you
ridicule us for using YOUR product and then essentially tell us to go away.
Unacceptable. It's no wonder IT are starting to wake up to the growing
alternatives in open source and Linux. Your guy from Great Lakes certainly
embodies why Microsoft's influence is beginning to decline and why the IT
press generally agrees you've done nothing but pump out bloated, buggy,
unimaginative and half-baked software whose main purpose is to enforce yours
or someone else's monopoly.
<sigh>
Rant over. Sorry. It's been a long week and I was given an assignment that
was destined to fail - roll out all the Macs to Entourage get them connected
to our brand new and untested Exchange server, train them how to use all of
the features and do it in 5 days. "Isn't this IT's job?" I ask. "No, they
won't touch Macs. Since you know Macs it's now your job." I wish, as a web
developer, that I could just say "I won't support Internet Explorer."
I just don't like the writing I'm seeing on our new, Microsoft-approved
wall. William, thank you for taking the time to help.
