Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition has launched and is now available on Mactopia. Because EWS final release requires 12.2.1 to be installed, it's currently only available for English and Japanese users. (If you don't use Exchange you don't need this update!)
Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition uses Exchange Web Services as the primary protocol to communicate with Exchange Server. In addition to several calendaring improvements, this new version of Entourage synchronizes notes, tasks, and categories with Exchange Server. This update also enables logging that can be used for diagnostic purposes. For detailed information about this update, see the IT Pros section of the Microsoft Web site.
Requirements & Update Help
Requirements
- Microsoft Exchange Server: Connectivity to Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) or later version.
- Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) must be applied to both the Mailbox server and the Client Access server roles.
- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 Update
Install EWS Final Release
In order to install the final release,
- Completely remove your beta build of Office 2008/Entourage, Web Services Edition
- Use "Remove Office" located in the Additional Tools folder in Office 2008 or
- Follow these steps to re-install
- Reinstall your licensed version of Office 2008 for Mac
- Update to SP2 and the 12.2.1 release that just recently came out.
- Users with original DVDs will need to update to 12.1.0 before updating to 12.2.0
- Once you are fully up-to-date, you can download the Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition release build
Verify your update
To verify that you have installed this update, you can open any Microsoft Office 2008 application to check the version number. For example, open Word, and then on the Word menu, click About Word. In the dialog box, compare the version number next to Latest Installed Update.
Comments (5)
Overall pretty happy with this. Faster than 12.2.1 and sync with exchange seams to be working very well.
Interesting issue I'm wondering if anyone else has seen... Connecting to our exchange server, the address that is going into the server address in Entourage is an address that isn't public. I change it to the OWA address that is public, but it seems every time my laptop is back on the local network at work, the address changes to the internal address which of course doesn't work again at home.
Any ideas? Or, what needs to be changed on the server?
See if these article help:
Connecting Entourage to an Exchange Server from Home
Connecting Entourage to an Exchange Server at work
We are really pleased to see Entourage WSE ship with support for Exchange categories. This means Entourage now has full support for CRM integration with Microsoft CRM (and a number of other leading CRMs).
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Best regards,
Aldo
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CEO, Managing Director
Omni Technology Solutions Inc.
The Integration Company
www.omni-ts.com
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To John W. and other that have this problem, "every time my laptop is back on the local network at work, the address changes to the internal address"...
The reason this happens is because the Exchange WebServicesVirtualDirectory does not have the proper "ExternalURL" property set. Run (in Exchange console):
Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Server SERVERNAME | FL
and you'll see that the ExternalURL will be blank or incorrect. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201695(EXCHG.80).aspx
for details, or run:
Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -identity "SERVERNAME\EWS (Default Web Site)" -externalurl https://mail.contoso.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx -BasicAuthentication:$True
** substituting the server and/or virtual directory and URL for your environment.
Entourage should now notice when your off the company network and will switch to the external url properly.