THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

There is no need to turn off forms based authentication in Exchange System Manager IF you are using Entourage 2004. That's one of the cool new features of Entourage 2004 .

That's correct, Norm. I need to get this updated with the full info on Entourage 2004, which I'm actively working on. Should have it available soon...

-Q

Thanks Eriq! Great site!!

Question for you and/or Norm. With Entourage 2004, does the calendar update better than it had in Entourage X? I had bagged using Entourage X and went to Outlook 2003 in a VPC 6.1.1 XP Pro session because the calendar would take forever to update in Entourage X but does much better in cached mode in the new Windows Outlook 2003 client. In addition, I was finding IMAP would only update directories if you select them to view, otherwise they would stagnate - not a cool thing when you go to access an email on your PowerBook when offline. I was just going back in to my SBS 2003 box to disable the previous changes I had made to enable Entourage when I came across the updates Susan made here. Have already killed my Exchange profile in Entourage X, but if 2004 is more agreeable with SBS and Exchange 2003, then I'll give that a shot. Do you think it is ready for primetime power use yet?..

Thanks again for your site Eriq! Glad Susan ran across it.
Steve

Hey Steve. I've had MUCH better luck with Entourage 2004 than with any previous version, or any version of Outlook since Microsoft removed Exchange connectivity from the client.

I'm looking into an issue with WebDAV and Entourage2K4/SBS. There may be some updates to the links soon.

-Q

I would just like to say thank you. I have been having that stupid "root certificate" error for ages with Entourage and thanks to you it has disappeared.

Thank you again,
Anon

What with the .local issue in Mac OS X 10.3.8 ?

The domain.local issue is not restricted to 10.3.8.

In its standard config domain.local is "assumed" to be the address space used by Rendezvous and hence "standard" DNS is not used. There is a documented "hack" which instructs OSX to use unicast DNS instead of multicast DNS to resolve names in the domain.local address space.

http://pentechcom.com/sbsdocblog/SBS_Mac_Beta.doc

Hey, the link on the page titled "Things I Wish I Had Known - Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB:" that instructs you how to setup for .local gives a blank page

as well as the link above for "Things I Wish I Had Known - How To Configure Entourage 2004 for SBS 2003: "

Has anyone got working links? I'm having trouble with a mac and sbs server. Thanks

Damien?  You are doing something wrong then as many of us in the SBS world have the SMB signing disabled with no issues whatsoever.

You are probably not setting the group policy correctly.