New Exchange sync option reaches beta stage
A new solution for syncing Microsoft Exchange, Google and Apple contact and calendar information has surfaced, titled Sync'Em. Now available as a public beta Sync'Em, in its current state, can synchronize Exchange contacts with Apple's Address book or synchronize Exchange contacts across several Exchange accounts. The developer hopes to soon add functionality to allow users to sync Exchange calen...
published on Thursday, the 4. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
First shots of Mac OS X Snow Leopard show desktop web apps
Although announced less than two weeks ago, screen captures of a Mac OS X Snow Leopard test build show the ability to create web apps in Safari 4 and an update to Address Book with hooks into Microsoft Exchange. The new test build, documented by G...
published on Saturday, the 21. June 2008, appleinsider
Use Address Book with Microsoft Exchange using LDAP
This quick how-to deals with getting Address Book to work with LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory in our case).Step 1: Determine the default naming context (base dn) for the search. Fire up Terminal and issue an ldapsearch to determine the default naming context:$ ldapsearch -h your.exchange.server -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' 'namingContexts'Search for the lines beginning with namingContexts:namingContexts: DC=mycompany,DC=comnamingContexts: CN=Configuration,DC=mycompany,DC=comnamingContexts: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=mycompany,DC=comThe result you are looking for is the "base/root" and that is the shortest one in the case of Exchange (BTW, this will work on other LDAP servers, too). In this case, that's the first line, ie. DC=mycompany,DC=com.Step 2: Configure Address Book to query the server. Fire up Address Book and go to the Preferences (Command-,). Select the L...
published on Wednesday, the 30. April 2008, macosxhints