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May 7, 2008

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Use Address Book to access Exchange contacts

Posted May. 7, ’08, 12:00 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Tips

msExchange.jpgIn my ginormous Macs-in-business post yesterday — which, frankly, I don’t blame you if you didn’t read completely…neither did I — I discussed some of the difficulties associated with using a Mac in a Windows-dominated corporate environment. One of the huge hiccups involves the ubiquity and importance of Microsoft Exchange in managing company-wide resources. There’s Entourage, sure, but some folks just don’t like it. Not surprising: it always forgets to use deodorant in the morning.

Contacts in Exchange are arguably one of its most essential components — and, let’s be honest, no one wants to use Exchange just for that. Thankfully, you might not have to: this post at Tenet Nosce details —with screen shots! — a procedure to configure OS X’s Address Book to query an LDAP/Exchange server when searching for contacts.

The process is three relatively simple steps, with some minor Terminal fiddling and tweaking of some preferences in Address Book. This also lets you search for Exchange contacts in Mail.app when you type a new address.

I don’t use Exchange — glory hallelujah! — so I can’t test this or testify to its usefulness. So I turn to you, dear Exchange-tethered readers, to give it a shot and let us know how it works. Thanks a million.

[via Mac OS X Hints]


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