Entourage 2004 Exchange Support Very Bad

[Matthew Berger]

It looks like Entourage 2004 has very, very poor Exchange support.

First, it attempts to synchronize all of the folders underneath Inbox and
there appears to be no way to select which folders are synchronized and
which are not. For anyone who has tens of thousands of emails filed in
subfolders of Inbox, this is a real problem. I tried to categorize certain
folders but it looks like limiting which items are synchronized by category
only works with Calendar and Contacts. I also tried to opt to have just
headers downloaded but this doesn't seem to work at all.

Second, Tasks and Notes are not synchronized at all. Why Microsoft doesn't
implement synchronization of these two folders I just don't know.

It just seems ridiculous that Microsoft would ship a product with such poor
support for another one of its products.

 

[D9]

So in your opinion, is Entourage 2004 better than Entourage X in
Exchange support? Is it enough to justify upgrading? (To us, the rest
of the Office 2004 upgrade features are of lesser concern, not
necessary to upgrading.)

 

[Dave Cortright]

So in your opinion, is Entourage 2004 better than Entourage X in
Exchange support? Is it enough to justify upgrading? (To us, the rest
of the Office 2004 upgrade features are of lesser concern, not
necessary to upgrading.)

I find that switching from IMAP/SMTP to DAV for Exchange mail is a huge
improvement. It let's me use my OWA server as the Exchange server, which
means I can send and receive Exchange mail from anywhere on the Internet
without having the VPN in. It makes moving between work and home very
seamless. Of course if you only ever access your Exchange mail from your
work computer at work, this won't matter to you.

 

[Rick Munday]

I find that switching from IMAP/SMTP to DAV for Exchange mail is a huge
improvement. It let's me use my OWA server as the Exchange server, which
means I can send and receive Exchange mail from anywhere on the Internet
without having the VPN in. It makes moving between work and home very
seamless. Of course if you only ever access your Exchange mail from your
work computer at work, this won't matter to you.

How do you switch from IMAP/SMTP to DAV? Is this a setting on the
Exchange server or on the Office OS X system? Also, how did you setup
VPN in OS X? I can't seem to get VPN working with OS X or even any
third-party VPN tool. It seems like it can't find the VPN IP address
and just times out yet I can VPN in with Windows XP on a Wintel box.

 

[Dave Cortright]

How do you switch from IMAP/SMTP to DAV?

Upgrade to Entourage 2004. Exchange accounts in 2004 use DAV.

Also, how did you setup VPN in OS X?

Launch Internet Connect, File:New VPN Connection