Many pundits have even gone so far as to say that with Mac OS X 10.6, you won’t need to deal with Exchange clients like Microsoft Entourage, or even the upcoming Outlook for Mac OS X ever again. Option 1: Starting Microsoft Teams from the Applications FolderWith last month’s release of Mac OS X 10.6, much has been made about the potential impact of the included Exchange support in Snow Leopard. In this section, you’ll learn how to launch Microsoft Teams and sign in to your Teams account for the first time. Now that you’ve installed Microsoft Teams for Mac, there are only a few more steps before you can start using it. Starting and Signing-in Microsoft Teams for Mac.So I set out to do a comparison of the Exchange support offered by Mac OS X 10.6 as compared to the current version of Microsoft Entourage 2008 Exchange Web Services, (EWS) edition. If this is the first time you have opened Entourage, you will be prompted to set up a new email account.The reality of course, is a bit more complicated. Open the 'Entourage' application inside 'Macintosh HD', then 'Applications', then 'Microsoft Office'. Configure Microsoft Entourage with UBs email servers incoming email.To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Entourage.
Setting Up Microsoft Entourage Mac OS XApple should have provided a function that did something along the lines of: “Hey, I see you’re manually setting up an Exchange account. Where Entourage only makes you enter the information once, with Mac OS X 10.6, when auto-discovery fails, you have to enter the Exchange account information separately into Mail, Address Book, and iCal—admittedly, not a hardship, but an annoyance that shouldn’t be there. What happens when the auto-discovery doesn’t work like it’s supposed to?In that case, Mac OS X 10.6’s separation of applications works against it. However, everything does well when everything works right. What about when you want to say, set up 20, 50, 100, even 1,000 Macs to talk to Exchange, and you don’t want to do it manually?In the area of automating Exchange account setup, Mac OS X 10.6 falls over. Those work great at home, for one or two people. However, that’s a manual setup. In addition, if, for any reason, Outlook can’t make a good connection to the Exchange server, the setup wizard will not allow you to just enter the information manually.)So for ease of manual setup, Entourage wins just by having the account setup in one place, so less duplication of work is needed. For one, you can’t even set up an Exchange account in Outlook you have to use the Mail control panel. Internet archive mac emulatorThe only way I can see, out of the box, to automate Exchange account setup in Mac OS X 10.6 is to write directly to a number of plist files or script out the defaults command. You can kind of work around this with Address Book if you can bind your Mac to Active Directory, but that’s using Exchange’s LDAP support, and if we’re talking about a home machine, it’s not an option anyway. While you can use MCX within Workgroup Manager to set up IMAP accounts in Mail, there’s no direct support for Exchange accounts there, and there’s no shipping support for setting up accounts of any kind in Address Book or iCal via MCX. In the AppleScript area, neither Mail, iCal, or Address Book allow you to create Exchange accounts via a script. When it comes to the basics—send and receive e-mails, basic meeting setup, finding addresses on the GAL—both applications do well. Exchange functionality supportSo, what about getting stuff done? Setup is interesting, but it’s something you don’t do a lot as a normal user thus, the appeal of setup automation capabilities is limited to a specific audience. If you’re a sysadmin wanting to automate setup for new employees, or new machines, Entourage is the clear winner here. The Exchange Account class in Entourage allows you to script the full setup of an Exchange account, including things like Public Folders, the root Global Address List, (GAL) folder, default out of office (OOF) message, and if the background auto-discover function should run or not. Shared Folders are conceptually similar to Public Folders, but handled differently within Exchange.Mac OS X 10.6’s support here is really uneven. Public Folders, for the uninitiated, are how you can create shared contact folders, calendars, mail folders, task folders, and notes folders in Exchange. Entourage adds category sync to that, an advantage in an Exchange environment, where you may be dealing with Outlook users who also use categories.Another area that’s an Entourage win involves Public and Shared Folders. Both let you synchronize mail, events, tasks/to-dos, and notes with Exchange. Entourage wins points by letting you browse the GAL instead of just doing searches on it. But if you need anything beyond a really limited set of functionality, or you’re in a corporate environment, then Entourage is the clear winner, at least in terms Exchange support. Final thoughtsIf all you need is occasional Exchange support (say from a home Mac), you just need the very basics, and your office understands that when you’re at home, you’re going to have highly limited access to Exchange, Mac OS X 10.6 will most likely handle your needs well enough. If you make use of OOF messages, Entourage provides a way for you to set them within the client, Mac OS X 10.6 requires you to use OWA. So, if you are in a company that uses Public or Shared Folders, you’re definitely going to have a better experience with Entourage.
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