[Evolution] MS Exchange version

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk>]

Hi :) 

Can Evolution be set to pick-up the users logins from MS Exchange and Active Directory? 

At work we have MS Server 2008.  How do i find out which version of MS Exchange it is using?  Is the "Active Directory" (?) part of that or how do i find which version of that is being used? 

Does it make a difference if we have fetchmail running on our Debian firewall but that is on a different network segment from the network-segment the desktops are on and i don't know enough about networks to access it or even whether that is a bad idea or not. 

On Windows people can move to any new machine they like and just login using the same login as they use on any desktop machine they have been using already.  Then they set-up Outlook by just waiting for the fields to fill up automatically and then click on Next.  There's no time when they have to remember or know anything.  Unfortunately i haven't been able to set-up anything like that on Gnu&Linux.  On each machine i have set-up each local user separately.  So, i use Outlooks "OWA" system to read the emails inside a web-browser.  That works well enough for me and even gives me an advantage but ideally i would like each local user to be able to use Evolution to read everything they currently use Outlook for (emails and calendars).

I take it that i would need to understand a LOT more about networking in order to achieve anything like that?  (or could i try to fudge it with a little help?)

Regards from

Tom :)