Microsoft Entourage Exchange servers and protocols
Microsoft Entourage uses various protocols to communicate with your account on RIT's Microsoft Exchange servers.
Microsoft Entourage v.X
Microsoft Entourage v.X, version 10.1.4, was the first version of Entourage to provide a specific account type for Exchange.
To work with the kinds of data stored in an Exchange account or on an Exchange system, it required the following protocols:
| IMAP | Incoming mail |
| Public Folders | |
| SMTP | Outgoing mail |
| Event invitations and responses, which work best when sent through an Exchange SMTP server, so that the invitations get the correct MAPI wrapper expected by Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA) | |
| LDAP | Simulated Global Address List (GAL) lookups through the Global Catalog LDAP interface |
| WebDAV | Personal calendaring sync |
| Contacts sync | |
| Free/busy lookup, which in the RIT environment requires the free/busy Public Folders be replicated to our front end servers |
Microsoft Entourage 2004
Microsoft Entourage 2004 (or version 11) refined the program's support for Exchange accounts a great deal. The reliance on IMAP and SMTP has been eliminated and replaced with WebDAV, which means that Entourage can work virtually anywhere Outlook Web Access (OWA) can.
| WebDAV | Incoming mail |
| Outgoing mail | |
| Event invitations and responses, with none of the limitations of SMTP and MAPI wrappers from the earlier Entourage | |
| Personal calendar sync | |
| Contacts sync | |
| Public Folders | |
| Free/busy lookup | |
| LDAP | Simulated Global Address List (GAL) lookups through the Global Catalog LDAP interface |
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