Check System Requirements for
Entourage 2004
Here are the requirements your computer needs to meet to run Entourage 2004: • PowerPC processor-based computer
• Mac OS X version 10.1 or later.
• 128 MB of RAM.
• 5 MB of available hard disk space temporarily required to complete installation.
• Connection to an
Exchange Server (i.e. You must have an Outlook ID)
• Palm Desktop software version 4.0
From Campus:
- Select Finder as the active application.
- Click on Go.
- Click on Connect to Server.
- Enter smb://deptdrive/macpub
- Select the Microsoft Office 2004 folder and drag and it drop it on your desktop.
- Once the files are copied, Microsoft Office 2004 including Entourage 2004 is installed on your computer.
From Home How to obtain Entourage 2004 from the campus:
You may purchase a Microsoft Office 2004 CD for Mac from the ITS, 207A MSB for$45. This will conatain Entourage 2004. For details about purchasing software see www.umflint.edu/its/services/sales.htm
- Turn your computer on.
- Put the CD containing Entourage 2004 for Mac into your CD-ROM drive.
- Open the CD, by double-clicking on CD drive.
- Select the Microsoft Office 2004 folder and drag and it drop it on your desktop.
- Once the files are copied, Microsoft Office 2004 including Entourage 2004 is installed on your computer.
**Note Users from Home: You must be dialed up and connected to an Internet Service Provider in order to check your mail. For instructions on how to connect your Macintosh to the UM system, refer to Quicknote 40 for using Remote Access or PPP method.
- Launch Microsoft Entourage 2004. The first time opening the program, the Entourage Setup Assistant window will appear.
- Select the I want to start using Entourage without importing anything option and click on the right arrow button in the bottom-corner of the Setup Assistant window.
- In the Set up a Mail Account step, enter your email address – youruniqname@umflint.edu in the Email address field.
- Click the My account is on an Exchange server checkbox.
- Enter your Uniqname in the User ID field.
You should not enter an email address in this field. a. Enter FLINT-NT as the Domain field.
b. Enter your LAN password in the Password field.
- Click on the right arrow button to move on to the Configuring Account step. At this point, Entourage attempts to contact Exchange server to obtain settings.
- Press the right arrow button to advance to the Automatic Configuration Succeeded step, once the account configuration is done.
- Click on the right arrow button to go to the Verify and Complete Settings step.
- Your account information is displayed. Verify your account information.
- Click on the right arrow button to move to the next step.
- Press the Verify My Settings button to double-check the changes; if there are no errors, you may click the right arrow button to go on.
- Enter a descriptive name next to Account name. The choice of name will not have any effect on performance.
- Click the Finish button on the Setup Complete step to save your changes.
- Click the OK button in the resulting dialog that informs you that Entourage is synchronizing with Exchange, and may take some time do so.
Richard Orman
Richard Orman is a Senior Computer Science major at the University of Michigan Flint. Richard works at the ITS Helpdesk located in room 207 MSB and on occasions works with NSS.
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