If I drop my Exchange 2007 servers, will I lose WebDAV support for Mac Entourage clients?
Entourage, which is Microsoft’s Mac OS X client for Exchange, can connect to the Exchange environment using the WebDAV protocol or the POP and IMAP protocols. WebDAV provides more capabilities than POP and IMAP, which provide just basic send/receive functions; commonly, WebDAV gives Mac users access to most of Exchange’s capabilities. But Microsoft is dropping WebDAV in Exchange 2010, replacing it with Exchange Web Services (EWS), which it says will support more Exchange capabilities than WebDAV (Entourage’s inferior capabilities compared to Outlook is a frequent complaint of Mac users). So you’ll have to move your Mac users to the EWS-capable version of Entourage, which Microsoft recently made available for download, or switch to the forthcoming Outlook for Mac client that Microsoft says will replace Entourage next year. You have two other options to maintain access to Exchange functionality if you’re not ready to go the EWS or Mac Outlook routes: One, if your Macs run the new Snow Le
