Supporting Entourage with Exchange

摘要

E-mail is the hub of business and Microsoft Exchange Server is the hub of E-mail for most large organizations and many educational institutions. While just about any E-mail application for Macintosh can connect to Exchange for mail, only Microsoft Entourage supports the majority of services Exchange provides. Entourage, when connected to an Exchange Server, is an end-to-end solution providing Mac users access to their mail, calendars, contacts and more. Like Microsoft Office, Entourage is itself a suite of different applications that can work independently but become more productive when used together. Connecting Entourage to Exchange can be confusing for endnisers who are not technically inclined and supporting many of these end-users can indeed be an administrative challenge. This article will attempt to explain your options for providing Exchange support for your Mac folks using Entourage, even if your organization isn't currently running Exchange. While Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is reported to offer Exchange support when it is released, it is currently in beta and information about it is under non-disclosure agreement.