Replicating the public folders out to your free/busy server is the best
option and shouldn't impact OWA stability (after all, this is how OWA
gets free/busy information.) AFAIK, there is no way in Entourage to
disable SSL just for public folders. 

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burson
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:39 AM
To: Entourage:mac Talk
Subject: Entourage 2004 and Free/busy


Hello,

So, I've been running Entourage 2004 over the week-end, kicking the
tires so-to-speak against my personal IMAP and my work Exchange. Thus
far, I've been very happy w/ the changes, improvements, and features
they've made. The WebDAV-based Exchange access is a much better Mac
option than EntX's IMAP/SMTP setup was -although perhaps still not where
Outlook 2003's RPC-over-HTTP hooks could be.

Here is the only real issue I've seen thus far:

It would appear that the security options for the Exchange account also
extend automatically to the security options for access to the Free/Busy
info on the public folders server. In other words, if you choose SSL for
Exchange access, Free/Busy automatically inherits that same SSL setting.

In my work environment, I connect via SSL WebDAV to a front-end Exchange
2003 OWA server. However, our free/busy pub folders are only on a
back-end Exchange 2003 server that do not serve up DAV via SSL - only
DAV access via tcp/80. As such, only basic Calendar functions work,
gaining access to other peoples' Meeting request availability do not
work.

Assuming this was a correct view, I would appear to only be able to get
Free/Busy to work a couple of different ways:



*       do unencrypted DAV to a back-end Exchange server that is serving
up OWA, thus having a global security option for SSL (or lack there-of)
that will work w/ our Free/Busy. Not a great idea due to the unencrypted
transport and transmission of credentials. 
*       talk the Exchange admin into serving up optional SSL access to
our back-end Free/Busy. 
*       talk the Exchange admin into replicating public folders to our
front-end OWA server. This doesn't seem to be a great idea from an OWA
stability perspective.
        


Or ... And something that this group may be able to help with:

Locate an Applescript for Entourage 2004 that will turn off the SSL=Yes
flag on the Free/Busy server configuration setting only at Entourage
start-up. This would work similar to an old Applescript from the
MVPS.org site that dynamically changed the IMAP server value at
start-up: thus providing 1 server value for IMAP in the applescript and
a different server value for DAV access to calendar.

Any ideas if a public folder "SSL=No" Applescript is possible w/
entourage 2004?

Any alternative suggestions or ideas?

Thanks,

jeff

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