Snow Leopard and Microsoft Exchange 2003
September 14, 2009
Snow Leopard has hit the streets and people who want to bring their Macs to a Windows workplace will be happy about its support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. What Apple fails to mention is that 10.6 also works with key components of Exchange 2003.
My company has long subscribed to a hosted Exchange service for email, contacts and calendar. Up until now, I’ve mainly been using a Windows machine as my primary workstation.
I say “mainly” because I’ve tried to switch back to Mac OS X a number of times. After a few days, I’m forced to give up and retreat to Windows. The lack of built-in Outlook/Exchange support is what repeatedly pushes me over into Microsoft-land.
Last week I installed Snow Leopard on my iMac. Configuring the Exchange 2007 account was an absolute breeze. But, the real test for me was to communicate and schedule calendar events with users whose accounts reside on Exchange 2003; an older version which Apple states Snow Leopard does not officially support.
Let me be the first to tell you, joyfully, that it works. If your account is on Exchange 2007, but you have to interact with Exchange 2003 users, the process is completely smooth and seamless. Events just work. Mail just works. Contacts just work. To Exchange 2003 users, you’re on a dusty old Dell, running Windows and using Outlook.
Thanks, super smart Apple engineers!
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