Getting mac mail, ical and address book to talk to Exchange 2003

OK, so if you are like me you have updated to Snow Leopard and have been having to resort to using a virtual machine (not a bad thing) to connect to your companies Exchange 2003 server. Face it, OWA is not good enough for a power user.

I have googled until my fingers have bled and could not find a solution that worked for me…. until now…

I am currently using mac mail, address book and ical to connect to an Exchange 2003 server through the help of http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

Their instructions are out of date as the screen shots are all based off of versions prior to 10.6 but here is where I deviated from what they had:

First get it installed. This part was easy and I just put in the full url that i use in chrome to get to OWA.

Adress Book was the kicker though. The old instructions were way off (although I did finally figure out where Directory Utility is in Snow Leopard (system preferences, accounts, login options, edit network account server, and there she is…)

But the actual fix was quite simple.

Address Book

Add new account:

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next is the key because the instructions they have on their website say to put o=od which looked wrong and did not work for me. I had to put Search base to ou=people before things worked. Don’t forget to change authentication to simple and put in domain\user and password…

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iCal

For iCal I used CalDAV and the server path of localhost. note: just the username, not domain\user
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When you hit create you will get an error, just hit create again.
The server path described on their website was slightly off from what I ended up with.
Just using /principals/users/user@domain.com (where user@domain.com is your default email address on the host).
Don’t forget to change the port to 1080 (or whatever port you put CalDAV on from within DavMail)

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Mac Mail

I didn’t have to do anything different from http://davmail.sourceforge.net/osximapmailsetup.html to get mail working.

Having said all this, I will let you guys know how things work over some time but for now I am just happy to have yet another Exchange email account ripped out of windows and placed in my happy Mac world :D

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ESX STIG Update

Look for some major updates soon on the ESX_SRRSecure.sh soon. My colleague informed me that he is doing an overhaul on the script and updating it along the way.

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Sorry about that

Didn’t realize the website was down. Godaddy got it working pronto!

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Forcing a VM to Power Off instead of Shutdown

Found this on the ‘net..

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/128527

In VMware Fusion (Mac) hold the ‘option’ key down before you click on Virtual Machine and you will see ‘Power Off’ instead of ‘Shutdown Guest’…

Comes in handy when you have a Windows box that hangs on the ‘Windows is shutting down’ screen.

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vSphere within a VM and memory issues

I quickly ran out of memory so I found this article….

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/05/08/running-vsphere-within-workstation-will-take-up-a-lot-of-memory/


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Virtualizing ESX4

I found this blog posting while creating my new development environmnet so that I can start working on an updated ESX_SRRSecure script for vSphere and thought it might be usefull to others without an extra set of servers for a vSphere lab…

http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/

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WordPress Permalinks and GoDaddy

I was kicking myself trying to get the permalinks fixed and what do you know, someone already had this issue with WordPress and Godaddy.com


http://www.queenofkludge.com/wordpress-permalinks-godaddy-htaccess-file-patience-required/

The short answer is:Set your permalinks in the settings/permalinks page and then wait an hour for the backend to catch up.  Not sure what the wait is for but it worked.

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Permalinks got all jacked up

Trying to fix so please bear with me.

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New Hosting Provider

If you can see this then my move to Godaddy.com worked!  John needed to shut down the 1and1 server since there were only two servers on it (one of which was mine)…

And I must say, the folks at Godaddy.com were awesome!  I had a question and helped me post haste.

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Mmmm snow




Mmmm snow

Originally uploaded by Phil Morrison

Not too cold… But there is snow on the ground

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