Configure Outlook 2011 For Exchange Mac OS X Is

They made that decision in conjunction with their internal contacts in the Exchange group, so there was some sound basis for doing so.

Most of all, it was an available usable modern method of connectivity, and for whatever reason(s) they had, they went that way rather than leveraging ActiveSync for Outlook for Mac.

Dont even go the route of IMAP, that will be a far worse nightmare.

Configure Outlook 2011 For Exchange Mac OS X Is

What version of Mac OS X is in use Apple Mail in OS X 10.7 and later allows you to specify the Internal and External server with separate entries.

Outlook for Mac (Office 2011) uses Microsofts EWS and allows you to specify only one server.

Will try that, but would think the outlook client could do this.

In outlook for PC it is set to go to local access server, and if there is no connection or if it is sow to flip to the web address, just dont see that same option on the mac.

If you set up the account using AutodiscoverAutomatic settings, it will always poll services on the network and switch server addresses continuously.

In my testing, I could even watch the control panel GUI switch from my manually entered server address back to the Autodiscover address as it negotiated connections and services.

On ours, it kept trying to use the internal server name as the external address.

Outlook 2011 using Exchange Web Services to connect to Exchange and get email.

Configure Mac Outlook 2011 For Exchange