Exchange ActiveSync (AES) in Mavericks

Nitrosync’s Touchdown is “temporarily” discontinued for Mac OS, and the company has since been bought up by Symantec, so don’t ever expect this product to return.

The only possible solution at this time is to use Outlook.com through the web browser to get all the features, or have your email via IMAP and edit your calendar on your mobile device or on the web. To see your calendars in Apple Calendar you’d need to share your Outlook.com calendars with your iCloud account.

Unfortunately, the new version of Outlook for Mac still doesn't support outlook.com like the Windows version does. You can only access outlook.com email over IMAP; no calendar, no contacts. You'll need an Exchange account to use it to its full potential.

The other alternative is signing up for the Azure RemoteApp Preview (http://remoteapp.azure.com) and using the Windows version of Outlook 2013 via RemoteApp. Currently the Preview is free but it takes up to a week to get your account approved to use it.

According to a leaked presentation from Microsoft, Office 2015 is supposed to have feature parity with its Windows counterpart. Apparently not.

One reason to stick with Office 365 Home though is that Microsoft is rolling out unlimited online storage to their customers over the coming few months (Home and Business).

Apple don't pre-announce their changes, it's a wait and see situation.

ActiveSync is not yet supported on Windows either (with the sole exception of Outlook 2013) so it seems there is little momentum to expand it from mobile devices to PC's or Macs.

why can it not be done in OS X?

Because Microsoft only licenses its patents in ActiveSync for use on mobile devices.

Do you have a verifiable source on this?

user987435 wrote:

Do you have a verifiable source on this?

How about Microsoft themselves?

Google is your friend: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/IPLicensing/Programs/e xchangeactivesyncprotocol.aspx

EAS is not available on Macs or PC's (unless the PC has Outlook 2013).

Touchdown (3rd party) will enable EAS on a Mac if you must have it.

@Barney-15E : It talks about how useful it is for mobile devices. Where did you read about restrictions to only mobile devices?

This part that only refers to Mobile devices:

The Exchange ActiveSync protocol allows mobile devices running Windows Mobile to synchronize e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks (known as PIM, Personal Information Manager) over the air with the Microsoft Exchange Server

And every other document relating to EAS that only discusses mobile devices and an Exchange server.

But, as per CSound's post, NitoDesk has licensed it and is making a desktop connection client.

Microsoft have the following proprietary email protocols -

MAPI

EAS (Exchange Active Sync)

EWS (Exchange Web Services)

Of these the iPhone/iPad support EAS, Apple Mail supports EWS, Outlook 2008/2011 for Mac support EWS, Outlook 2010 for Windows supports MAPI, and Outlook 2013 for Windows supports MAPI to talk to MS Exchange and EAS to talk to Hotmail/Outlook.com.

As far as I am aware Outlook 2013 for Windows does not support EAS for connecting to MS Exchange.

Technically it would be possible for Microsoft to allow using Outlook 2013 for Windows or Apple Mail or a.n.other client to use EAS to connect but as others have discussed Microsoft have chosen to limit the use of EAS.

So, in your case you can do the following.

You can use IMAP to link Apple Mail to Hotmail/Outlook.com to get email only.

You can use EAS to link an iPhone to HotMail/Outlook.com to get email, calendar, and contacts.

You might be able to do the following to link Calendar on the Mac to the calendar that is part of Hotmail/Outlook.com, it appears to be one way though meaning any changes you make on the Mac do not get sent to HotMail/Outlook.com 😟

From http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/124932/setting-outlook-com-contacts-and -calendar-on-osx

You can go to http://calendar.live.com, and get a sharing link for a calendar. Take the ICS link, open Calendar on your Mac. Then, go to Import Subscribed Calendar and paste this link. Make sure to replace webcals:// with https://. This gives you a read-only subscription and at present, is the only workaround to Microsoft's stubbornness. I have no solution for Contacts though.

John Lockwood wrote:

Microsoft have the following proprietary email protocols -

MAPI

EAS (Exchange Active Sync)

EWS (Exchange Web Services)

Of these the iPhone/iPad support EAS, Apple Mail supports EWS, Outlook 2008/2011 for Mac support EWS, Outlook 2010 for Windows supports MAPI, and Outlook 2013 for Windows supports MAPI to talk to MS Exchange and EAS to talk to Hotmail/Outlook.com.

As far as I am aware Outlook 2013 for Windows does not support EAS for connecting to MS Exchange.

Technically it would be possible for Microsoft to allow using Outlook 2013 for Windows or Apple Mail or a.n.other client to use EAS to connect but as others have discussed Microsoft have chosen to limit the use of EAS.

http://windowsitpro.com/blog/exchange-eas-and-outlook-2013

There is one (that I know of) ActiveSync client available for OS X, Touchdown, I have used it to add EAS to Android devices a couple of times (where it worked well) but have no experience of it on OS X.

System Requirements

Please note the following before you download TouchDown

• You require Mac OS/X Mountain Lion or above to install this product
• You can use it to connect only with the following server types
  • Microsoft Exchange (with ActiveSync enabled)
  • Zimbra (with ActiveSync enabled)
  • Office 365 (with ActiveSync enabled)
  • Personal accounts with outlook.com (@outlook.com, @msn.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com)
• Other servers are not supported
• If you have trouble, please write to macsupport@nitrodesk.com

Csound1, you sent me an insulting email accusing me of attempting to steal software, and left me no way to respond. You don't know me. I was not attempting to steal anything, and I resent your accusation and your tone.

I posted my message asking for a copy of Touchdown for Mac because, as of yesterday, there was no other way to sync Outlook.com mail, calendar, and tasks on the Mac, and I'm desperate to be able to do that. Before Symantec pulled it from the market, it sold for $30. I would have been willing to pay $60 for it, to you, to Symantec, or to whoever could provide me with it because (as of yesterday) there was no other product on the market that could do this. That's desperation, not piracy, so watch who you're calling a thief.

Today, Microsoft announced the long-awaited new version of Outlook for Mac, so I don't need it after all. Here's the link, for others in my predicament. Notice it's not free. See? I'm willing to pay for software. I'm a software developer myself and I wouldn't try to cheat a fellow developer out of their livelihood. Watch the name calling.

http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/31/new-outlook-mac-available-office-365-customer s/

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