Hi everyone... I did a search of the forums, but everything that came up was either quite outdated, or in reference to things slightly different than what I need help with.
Basically, I handle the day to day IT, as well as some other things, for a small law firm. It's about 15 PC's and 1 Mac. All of our advanced server stuff is outsourced to a professional IT firm, but since I know my way around Windows Server 2000, I take care of the usual daily minutia.
Anyway, we use Exchange Server 2003 / Outlook 2003 for the PC's and we're trying to get the Mac to play friendly. The primary concern thus far has been giving the Mac user a way to access the Public Calendar that is shared throughout the office via the Public Folders.
As I understand it so far (and please correct me if I am mistaken), even with the improvements to Entourage 2004, you still can't view Public Calendars as if they were your own, without first copying it or something... which is no good, since that would require a manual task each time something is changed to the calendar. Thus, if that's the case, we'd use Safari to connect to the Outlook Web Access server and view the calendar that way. Here's the problem I've encountered with that:
If I'm offsite (at home for example) and go to
https://mail."our company".com/exchange via Safari, it works just fine, showing me the Public Calendar beautifully.
If I'm in the office however, and go to the same site, it wont come up. I've done this both on the Mac and in Windows. On the Windows machines, we have an alternative, which is to use:
https://"ourcompany's server name"/exchange
For some reason, I can't do this on the Mac through any browser... as was explained to me elsewhere, I think it has to do with the Mac needing a Fully Qualified Domain or something... I would love more info on this.
So there's my story... if someone could point me in the direction of how to access Outlook Web Access from Safari WITHIN the office, I would be extremely grateful.
Also, if someone knows of another forum that specializes in Mac IT expertise in this context, I'd love to post this there also, so please let me know.
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