Macbook on a windows-type network - Exchange?

You don't have offline mode enabled in the Entourage menu do you? Do you want to take some screenshots of the account config pages just so I can see if you've missed anything (Apple key+shift+4 then draw round the bit you want to save)? From what you've listed it should be working just fine. Have you got all the latest office 2004 updates installed?
 
hello,

another update !

I created a new account in AD called test and setup the mailbox for it. I then added this mailbox to entourage and it works no problem! Emails send and receive no problem and very fast too =)

Which really means that its something to do with this users mailbox :S does entourage have issues with very large exchange mailboxes?
 
Firefly86 said:
hello,

another update !

I created a new account in AD called test and setup the mailbox for it. I then added this mailbox to entourage and it works no problem! Emails send and receive no problem and very fast too =)

Which really means that its something to do with this users mailbox :S does entourage have issues with very large exchange mailboxes?
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It shouldn't do, mine is currently about 800meg but it's been a few gig in the past, how big is the user's mailbox in question? Have you double checked to make sure all the latest office updates are on?
 
500mb :/ not really too big I guess, it just seems to have a problem finishing the synchronizing, it does do a big lump of her mailbox but just seems to get stuck when theres a couple hundred mails left in her sent items and inbox :S
 
It's possible there's an error in her mailbox on the server that Entourage can't handle for some reason. You could try exmerging her mails from her account to the dummy account and see if it either errors, or whether the new account gets the same problem or not.
 
I think your right beepcake. Have been fiddling around with several mailboxes today and all work fine except this particular persons account. It just seems to stop updating when it gets to a certain date (its the same date everytime).
 
Well seeing as how I fiddled around with it so many times I bloody documented the thing for future reference haha

I was having some problems due to having the exchange server path wrong, I tried the following :

https://10.0.0.6:444/exchange
https://mail.xxxxxxx.gi:444/exchange
https://10.0.0.6/exchange

while also setting the DAV port to 444 to match the address.

None of them really worked properly so I tried

https://mail.xxxxxx.gi/exchange and that worked xD (also with the DAV port set to override on 444.)

On the advanced tab, the public server was left blank, and the LDAP server was just xxxxxx (just the name by itself of one of our domain controllers), with no boxes ticked on the advanced page.

The problems with the new emails not being received was as beepcake said earlier, it will do an initial receive at the start of adding the mailbox but, until everything in the entire mailbox has been synchronized, no new emails seem to come in, which is what happened :S I created a new mailbox for the user after the synchronization just wouldn't finish (problems with the mailbox itself), migrated the info, tried it again left it overnight synchronizing and by morning it was working great xD

One thing I did notice with this whole thing, is that after applying the settings above, it either required a restart, or a 1-2 min time period before the actual folders appear within the mailbox :S

Seemed my impatience got the better of me a couple of times and I'd actually had the right settings previously but changed them because I presumed they were wrong :S

Hope i answered the right question lol =D
 
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