Re: [WinMac] Mac Outlook Client to Exchange Calendar?

Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:09:28 -0800 (PST)

> when I
> click on the Calendar icon in the toolbar, the calendar is empty. I can see
> a Calendar icon in my list of folders, but clicking on it opens it up like a
> mailbox with lots and lots of appointments looking like mail messages. Same
> for my contact list. How do I get to my Calendar & Contacts from the Mac?

Heh. That's funny. That reminds me of what happened when i tried to
use PINE (an IMAP-compatible mail client that's popular in text-only
Unix environments) to connect to an Exchange server.

i saw the Calendar and Contacts folders as well, but yeah, then they
ended up looking just like a mailbox.

Leave it to Microsoft to implement IMAP in such a half-assed manner.

(Of course, in their defense, there *isn't* an IMAP-standard way
of getting to a calendar or contact information, but it's pretty
ridiculous that the Mac Outlook team couldn't get access to whatever
weird specification the Windows Outlook/Exchange programmers have
devised for accessing that information.)

At any rate, a quick dig through the archives (www.darryl.com/winmac)
would seem to indicate that the Mac Outlook client included in Service
Pack 2 (for Exchange Server) is much improved. And here's the
knowledgebase spiel about it from:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q197/4/50.asp

> Microsoft Outlook Exchange Server Edition for the Apple Macintosh
> includes the following new features and improvements:
>
> ...
>
> Outlook Calendar Support. Group scheduling across platforms is now
> available. Users are now able to view Read Only details of a Windows
> Outlook user's calendar. A Macintosh client, setup with delegate
> permissions, can now view details for a Windows Outlook 97 or above
> 32- bit client.

So, there ya go. Here's where you can download the upgrade:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/exchange/exchange-public/fixes/Eng/Exchg5.5/SP2/Mac/

-- 
Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | Geek? Who me? <http://www.darryl.com>


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