Best program for Exchange 2003 use on Snow Leopard?

steinooo · 30 Jun 2010 at 09:06

Hi all,

We use Exchange 2003 in a Windows domain, but now have 1 Mac running OSX Snow Leopard wanting to connect to the exchange server and use mail/calendaring etc.

I realise the inbuilt Mail app can only talk to Exchange 2007, can you recommend me one that can talk to Exchange 2003 please?

thanks.

MacRS4 · 30 Jun 2010 at 09:51

If you have control over the Exch2k3 environment you could enable IMAP or POP3 for the Email piece. For calendars though.....

Entourage, part of Office 2008, will give you access to the whole mailbox. It's poney though unfortunately.

I use Outlook 2010 - but in Parallels.

To be fair even with support in Mail/Calendar for Exchange 2007 it's still rubbish compared to Outlook. Probably the single bit of software I miss from the Windows world.

steinooo · 30 Jun 2010 at 10:33

MacRS4 said:
If you have control over the Exch2k3 environment you could enable IMAP or POP3 for the Email piece. For calendars though.....

Entourage, part of Office 2008, will give you access to the whole mailbox. It's poney though unfortunately.

I use Outlook 2010 - but in Parallels.

To be fair even with support in Mail/Calendar for Exchange 2007 it's still rubbish compared to Outlook. Probably the single bit of software I miss from the Windows world.

wow, there really isn't many options out there.

thanks for your post. By "poney" do you mean rubbish?

I'm thinknig about seeing if there's a Windows emulator out there so our new Mac user can use Outlook and the rest of MS office.....

steinooo · 30 Jun 2010 at 10:40

ooh just realised what you said there about Parallels, that's a windows emulator. Is it the best one out there would you say?

Fr0dders · 30 Jun 2010 at 10:43

parallels

steinooo · 30 Jun 2010 at 11:07

right thanks

just had a thought though - are there such things as remote desktop clients for Macs where I could connect to one of our Windows Terminal Servers perhaps?

steinooo · 30 Jun 2010 at 11:21

answered my own question, MS has their own which works a treat!

James J · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:44

To re-address this thread, is there any software for the mac which can actually use 2003 exchange services? Entourage doesn't use it on the mac unless you upgrade from home and student edition of office 2008 and the 2011 version doesn't have outlook on it unless you buy the business edition, and even then I dont even know if it works or not lol.

This is for my university email -.-