Snow Leopard and Exchange?

[Jesse Tayler]

Can anyone help me identify what the compatibility trouble is in  
technical terms?

I can't seem to find verification of this issue described here

> Testing here has shown a number of incompatibilities between Snow  
> Leopard and NYULMC systems, which may cause serious issues for early  
> adopters, including the shutdown of your email account.
>
> Confirmed problems include:
>
> 1.  Remote access via OnsiteHealth won’t work.
> 2.  Critical problems with the new version of Apple Mail and  
> NYULMC’s Exchange email servers.
>
> Issue #2 causes a massive number of errors to be generated on the  
> email servers. For this reason, if a problem is detected with  
> someone running the Snow Leopard version of Apple Mail, MCIT  
> Messaging will be forced to disable the email account to protect the  
> integrity of the flow of email to all customers.
>
> In light of this, we strongly recommend that you do not upgrade to  
> Snow Leopard at the present time. NYULMC has a license agreement  
> with Apple for system software that Medical Center IT will be  
> offering as part of our standard build for Medical Center computers.  
> This will include Snow Leopard and will be released as soon as we  
> have completed testing the new software in our environment, resolved  
> incompatibilities, and are sure of a smooth transition to the new  
> operating system.

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[objectwerks inc-2]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:

>
> Can anyone help me identify what the compatibility trouble is in  
> technical terms?

yeah, they are running Exchange.  That is the problem.

>
> I can't seem to find verification of this issue described here
>

Do you know what version of Exchange server they have?  From what the  
press has said about SL this week, you have to be running a specific  
version (2007 or something -- I am not a MS wuss nor have I been  
running a pre release of SL but there were some notes in some of the  
press articles this week about it).

Chad

>
>> Testing here has shown a number of incompatibilities between Snow  
>> Leopard and NYULMC systems, which may cause serious issues for  
>> early adopters, including the shutdown of your email account.
>>
>> Confirmed problems include:
>>
>> 1.  Remote access via OnsiteHealth won’t work.
>> 2.  Critical problems with the new version of Apple Mail and  
>> NYULMC’s Exchange email servers.
>>
>> Issue #2 causes a massive number of errors to be generated on the  
>> email servers. For this reason, if a problem is detected with  
>> someone running the Snow Leopard version of Apple Mail, MCIT  
>> Messaging will be forced to disable the email account to protect  
>> the integrity of the flow of email to all customers.
>>
>> In light of this, we strongly recommend that you do not upgrade to  
>> Snow Leopard at the present time. NYULMC has a license agreement  
>> with Apple for system software that Medical Center IT will be  
>> offering as part of our standard build for Medical Center  
>> computers. This will include Snow Leopard and will be released as  
>> soon as we have completed testing the new software in our  
>> environment, resolved incompatibilities, and are sure of a smooth  
>> transition to the new operating system.
>
>
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[Alex Satrapa-2]

On 28/08/2009, at 15:07 , objectwerks inc wrote:

>> I can't seem to find verification of this issue described here
>
> Do you know what version of Exchange server they have?  From what  
> the press has said about SL this week, you have to be running a  
> specific version (2007 or something

MS Exchange 2007 the specific version that Apple claims compatibility  
with:
  http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange/

Being a Microsoft product*, all bets are off as to whether any other  
MS Exchange product will be compatible with Snow Leopard.

Alex

*Not MS-bashing intentionally. Just ask the Samba Team about how much  
fun it is to maintain compatibility between versions of Microsoft  
products (including between a GM and SP1 version of an operating  
system).


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