Entourage 2008 and Exchange global address book

[Nick_C]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Email Client: Exchange

I wasn't able to access our hosted Global Address book using Entourage 2004. Has this changed with 2008 ? The reason given by my hosting company for problems with 2004 and Exchange are shown below:

LDAP connectivity is required for Entourage clients to achieve the "Address Book" and "Global Address List" functionality of Managed Exchange in Entourage. However, due to the large security risks, we do not expose LDAP connectivity to the outside world. While this feature is compatible with Outlook 2003, regretfully it is not available via Entourage.

To clarify, Outlook uses the MAPI protocol to access mail and address book information, Entourage uses the WebDAV and LDAP protocols to achieve this same functionality. LDAP is disabled within our Managed Exchange server configuration for security reasons.

 

[Adam Bailey]

I wasn't able to access our hosted Global Address book using Entourage
2004. Has this changed with 2008 ? The reason given by my hosting company
for problems with 2004 and Exchange are shown below:

LDAP connectivity is required for Entourage clients to achieve the
"Address Book" and "Global Address List" functionality of Managed Exchange
in Entourage. However, due to the large security risks, we do not expose
LDAP connectivity to the outside world. While this feature is compatible
with Outlook 2003, regretfully it is not available via Entourage.

Entourage 2008 also uses LDAP to access the GAL. Your hosting company is
being dense, a properly-patched LDAP server is not inherently insecure.