Kerberos authentication making Entourage slow?

[mdudek]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: Exchange

I have 2 users whose Entourage is just crawling with the nonstop beach ball.
I deleted the main identity and re-synced – no change.
Went to their account through OWI and it seemed fine.
I turned off Kerberos authentication and manually enter the login and PW and bingo, everything worked fine.
On a whim, I created my own account on that computer and set up my Exchange account with Kerberos authentication and it worked fine.
In my mind this eliminates the client as the problem. I passed this issue off to the Exchange admin and he came back with no solution. The issue is now going to data security. Haven't heard form them yet, but I am hoping for some feedback in the mean time.

 

[Pawan Kapoor]

You have your solution in your statement. Configure their account from
scratch in Entourage with an existing valid Kerberos ticket.

1. Create a ticket in Mac Kerberos utility
2, Create a new identity and configure the account from scratch
3. The initial sync with take some time but then everything with work fine

Hope this helps

thanks,
Pawan