Where to purchase Office for Mac 2008 nonEWS version?

I'm planning my upgrade to Lion. I need the non-Web Services Edition of Office for Mac 2008 so that I can connect to my employer's MS Exchange Server 2003 via Entourage 2008.
I can only find the Web Services Edition on Microsoft's website- but that won't work for me.
My understanding is that I need Office for Mac 2008 version 13.3 or earlier. When I shop online, the products offered do not specify the version they are selling.
Does anybody know a sure-fire way or place to get the right version?
thanks.

ciMac35 wrote:
I have Outlook 2011 and was unable to get it to work with the Exchange 2003. Does this mean they do not have IMAP enabled? When I asked the IT people they said that as far as they knew Outlook 2011 would not work with Exchange 2003.  I didn't know enough to ask about IMAP.
1. How do I determine if IMAP is turned on?
A. Ask the IT people if IMAP is enabled for your Exchange Server setup. I'm pretty sure it's *not* enabled by default. They had to turn it on for me earlier for a system I manage that only works with IMAP; so I knew in advance with setting up Outlook 2011 that it was on for me
B. You can always just go for it in Outlook 2011.
- Launch "Preferences"
- Click Accounts
- Click the "+" in the bottom corner to add another account, and select "E-mail" (do *not* select Exchange)
- Fill in "Email address" and the sheet will expand
- Note the "Type" field -- make sure "IMAP" is selected.
You may need to talk to the IT people if you don't know the servers and their ports for those other settings. But that's basically the way you way to setup an IMAP account.
Try this on site not over VPN to make sure it works. I ran into problems with email and other company systems with VPN because I wasn't going through the company's DNS server for my traffic. It's enough to test with OWA with VPN; if you can't connect with name of the server but you can with the IP, then you're not going through the company's DNS.
In Snow Leopard, I believe it was enough in the Network settings to move the VPN higher up in the protocal order, e.g. VPN, Airport, Ethernet. A more stable way is to add the email server and its IP to your hosts file (etc/hosts).
I had heard about Davmail, but was intimidated by it. 2. You say DavMail allows you to get email into other clients- will it do this once I update to Lion?
3. On the DavMail website link it shows instructions to set-up for IMAP, but what if I don't have IMAP?
If I have to use OWA to get email into another client, how would I go about that?
Thanks for your help.
DavMail is a little more involved in terms of setup compared to just using Outlook (or even Mail) with IMAP. The most pain free way is to convince/get the IT people in your company to turn on IMAP for you.
If they don't, then you might consider DavMail.
See if this helps explain what's going on with DavMail. DavMail basically is "interfacing" between Outlook Web Access  and your email client. DavMail will go through OWA to your (exchange) mailbox, and (here's the important part) function as your personal IMAP server on your computer. The mail clients like Outlook and Mail, or whatever you want, will then be configured for the DavMail email server, not the Exchange server at the end of chain.
So if the IT people refuse to turn on IMAP for you -- it can happen -- then you can bypass the limitation with DavMail as long as OWA is turned on.

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