So why does Entourage 2004 not connect to a Exchange 2k server natively?

[Doug]

I am running Entourage 2004 on a handful of office macs running OS/X and
it works fine connecting to our exchange 2000 enterprise server using
the imap or pop type connections. Now unfortunately the office manager
of that department always points out the good old days when the older
OS/9 Outlook 2001 mac client connected to our exchange server seamless
and it had full address book access,etc. So exactly why does the newer
version of Entourage 2004 not connect to exchange the preferred
"Microsoft" way? I know the default Mapi calls of Outlook for the pc are
very heavy.

Just curious and it's more of a way to cover my butt on convincing them
to upgrade to os/x about 6 months ago.

Thanks.

Doug

 

[Sean]

Entourage has "Exchange" account type in addition to IMAP and POP. The
Exchange account type uses WebDav, the same protocal used by Outlook
Web Access to sync Mail, Contacts and Calendar with the exchange
server. I believe this works with Exchange 5.5 sp2 and above.