Snow Leopard with Exchange support not working

Hi Nextdoor
Yes - that does let me sync the arm between google contacts and my imac. But what I am missing is being able to sync the arm between google contacts and my outlook on exchange 2003...
or am I missing something?

10.6.1 might fix the Exchange autodiscover issues depending on how one interprets-
see http://snurl.com/rmpgg

"fixes for ... instances where automatic account setup in Mail might not work"

Message was edited by: jwingstrom

Hi jhrichmond

I haven't tried any of these but it looks like you can do it.
http://lifehacker.com/5284904/google-apps-sync-syncs-outlook-with-gmail-google-c ontacts-and-calendars
http://lifehacker.com/5193636/go-contact-sync-keeps-google-and-outlook-contacts- matched
http://oggsync.com/
http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/gsync/

Hi Bill -- I have had similar problems at JHU. Everything was working well Monday through Thursday. Something must have changed Friday, because when I got to work nothing worked. I finally replaced the server name mobile.johnshopkins.edu with exchange.johnshopkins.edu and it worked! When I got home I had to change it back though to make it work when not connected through a JHU IP address. Late this evening, though, they both stopped working. In any case my name is Eric Rice, you can look me up on JHED, I'd love to compare notes so drop me a line.

It sounds like your companies Exchange Servers are not setup for this. In order for the mail, calendar, and contacts apps in SL to work with your companies MS Exchange servers, your company has to be using at least MS Exchange 2007 with SP1 Security Roll-Up 4...

Since Exchange 2010 is coming in a short while, some companies decided to skip the upgrade from 2003 to 2007. Since this was more of a rip and replace then it was an upgrade.

The reason it works with the iPhone and MS Exchange 2003 is precisely because it is using the MS ActiveSync protocol which is very different from what the mail app would use to talk to the same servers.

As to the other issues where the company is running Exchange 2007 but you still can not use it without first logging into the companies VPN.. It sounds like either the company is not using an exchange border server to provide HTTPS access to mail. In other words, your company does not provide web based access to e-mail from the internet.

If it does, then you should enter that servers name into the mail app settings. Then, theoretically, it should find the rest of what it needs and setup normally.

I have done this with my companies Exchange servers and it seems to be working perfectly.

could we hire you to help configure our settings to make exchange work on my mac? My company is willing to make changes to let me access it - as long as it doesnt screw up the other PCs on the system...

Thanks
Aaron

could we hire you to help configure our settings to make exchange work on my mac? My company is willing to make changes to let me access it - as long as it doesnt screw up the other PCs on the system...

Thanks
Aaron

I have Exchange 2007 running at my company and my Apple Mail works just fine from outside the company network. You need to contact your Exchange/Network Administrator and ask them if they have set up the "Outlook Anywhere" feature. This is a feature allowing people to be able to use Outlook from anywhere in the world going through web hosted ports 80 and 443. I am the IT Manager where I work and I have set this feature up myself last year.

In Mail my External Server Path under the Advanced tab is "server.domain.com/owa" using port 443, because I only allowed https to be open. Those of you who get it to work through the VPN, this most likely means that these ports are not open on your company firewall. If they aren't, then you might as well switch off Outlook Anywhere, because it entirely defeats the object.

Hope this helps some of you out a bit 🙂

Also just as an aside to what I said above...

Snow Leopard Apple Mail uses the EWS (Exchange Web Services) feature to do what it does and Exchange 2007 is the only Exchange system that supports the use of Web Services. So if you have Exchange 2003 or earlier, don't bother asking why it does not work.

Seth F., A A P L is absolutely right though. If the Exchange 2007 is behind a VPN, it won't work remotely with SN, but its entirely possible to get around that restriction IFF your employer offers off-site VPN service. This IS a local configuration issue and with network barriers down, SL does work well with Exchange 2007.

Sorry dude, you're the one not getting it and your belligerence is unhelpful. ActiveSync is a synchronization protocol, not a mobile protocol. While it is primarily used to sync mobile devices, there is nothing about the architecture of the protocol that precludes it to be used in a desktop environment.

Don't shoot the messenger, it's just not helpful.

These are Microsoft's rules and we all have to play by them. It's no-one else's fault, so stop blaming them, especially when they are simply trying to explain the situation - apparently to those who don't want to listen to the answer.

Until you (or anyone) knows for a FACT that Microsoft would allow ActiveSync to be perverted to desktop usage, then I suggest you all stop bleating on about how technically possible you think it is.

Nope. Definitely EWS. Check out the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/itpros/entourage-ews.mspx

Just want to add that we HAVE Exchange 2007 SP1 w/ Rollup 4 and Mail would not work either inside or through the VPN, claiming that we needed Sp1 and Rollup 4. I haven't tried it yet, but my Exchange/network admin says that they installed Rollup 5 and that should allow Mail to work. I will test tonight...

I'm experiencing the same issues with Exchange not working in Mail with SL. Our Exchange Server is running SP1 Rollup 9 and it still gives me the error that it doesn't have the minimum requirements installed. I'm anxious to get this running asap. I just updated to 10.6.1 today and it still doesn't connect.