Entourage & And an iMac in a predominantly PC environment?

Good morning all!
I recently switched to a MAC at my predominately PC university, and
now I find out after I've gotten the mac that we have little to no
support for it. I was hoping some of the corporate users could give a
hand or suggestions with the following:
1.) Cannot view resource accounts I am an owner of, nor accounts I am
a delegate for in Entourage 2004
2.) Seems to be no way that I can get the iMac on the University
Domain (and our IS folks seem unwilling to even try)
3.) MS Access for Office 04 Mac? Does this even exist? I was looking
for Office 2004 Professional and can't even find info on it other
than its not in stock anywhere.
4.) Anyone have success using bootcamp w/Windows XP to stop gap
between non mac friendly applications, the universities servers and
your mac?
any tips for getting more mac info out to the Universities IS folks?

Did you configure Entourage for an Outlook account? Consult Entourage's Help for information on setting up an Outlook account.
If your school uses standard Ethernet, then connect the computer's Ethernet port to an active port on the school's network. Open Network preferences in System Preferences. Select the Built-in Ethernet port and click on the Configure button. Click on the TCP/IP tab then set the 'Configure IPv4' drop down menu to DHCP if that's what your school uses. Click on the Apply Now button. Shortly you should see the network information appear - IP address, network mask, etc.
If the school uses assigned IP addresses then you will need to have the IS people assign an IP address for you to use. You would then configure using the Manual selection from the drop down menu. You will also need the network mask, gateway IP address, and Domain Name Server IP address.
There is no Access for the Mac. There are, however, other database applications such as FileMaker Pro. If you don't need Entourage you can use the free open source NeoOffice Aqua which is Office compatible and includes word processing, presentation, graphics, spreadsheet, and database applications that are fully compatible with MS Office. Be sure to get the Intel version.
Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak 2 or Vista. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
3. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system.
In a Windows-only Centric university your only options are to be pro-active on your own and learn how to do things yourself. Such IS departments are disinclined to provide any type of Mac support mostly because they don't know anything about Macs. Nevertheless, Windows servers can accommodate Macs quite comfortably if they are properly configured. Just keep after the people if you are unable to obtain network access per the above information.
One thing that may help you is to learn about Directory Access (Utilities folder.) MacDevCenter has been running a series of articles on using Directory Access. That may be a good place to start along with reading the online help - launch DA and select DA Help from the Help menu.
Message was edited by: Kappy
Look for other Mac users on the campus who have learned to surmount the obstacles of the IS department.

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