Updated Exchange setup script supports Entourage 2008

By William Smith | May 26, 2008

I’ve posted version 2.0 of my EntourageExchangeSetup AppleScript on The Entourage Help Page that includes support for Microsoft Entourage 2008′s Kerberos feature as well as some minor additions and bug fixes.

This AppleScript is intended to be modified by an administrator to assist his Entourage users with the setups of their Exchange server accounts. It has been tested specifically with Entourage 2004 11.2.6, 11.3.3, 11.3.7 and Entourage 12.00, 12.0.1 and 12.1.0 but should work with any version of Entourage 2004 SP2 (11.2.0) and higher. Every company’s network is different so this script was written to provide enough ideas for a novice scripter to be able to adapt it for use in his network in just a few minutes.


Following is a list of changes in the new version:

  • Added the ability set Kerberos authentication with principal name (Entourage 2008 only)
  • Added seventh E-mail option (EMAIL)
  • Added fix for correctly setting SSL authentication for LDAP (bug in Entourage 2008 only)

Download the script.

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3 comments to Updated Exchange setup script supports Entourage 2008

  • Tim Kimpton
    May 21, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Thanks for this script William it has really saved me a lot of time. The script works great on 10.4.11 but when I try the same script on 10.5.6 it Entourage 2008 crashes. I then relaunch entourage and get the warning there is already an email account setup so I click no. I then get the prompt to use the kerberos uid so I then click ok. There is something in the script which acts differently in Leopard causing it to crash but I cannot work out what it is. The crash report for Entourage 2008 just thread 0 crashed unknown

  • William M. Smith
    May 22, 2009 at 6:01 am

    Hi Tim!
    I’ll check things at work today with a 10.5.6 machine. Be sure that the Entourage template is made with the same version of Entourage that you’ll be installing on your workstations. I wouldn’t think that .01 increments of Office would be a problem (for example, creating the Entourage template files with 12.1.1 but installing 12.1.7) but I haven’t tested that extensively.

  • Jason
    August 9, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    Hi, I just revisited this and for a first-time launch with a fresh Mac OS X User, it was choking on the “Begin Setup Check” line
    “if (exists of Exchange account 1) is true”.
    I commented out the lines
    Ran the script (the rest of which worked properly)
    Uncommented the lines
    Re-tested the script
    The function works properly again.

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