Yea .. the Student/Home Edition does not have Exchange connectivity. There is a full Microsoft Office 2008 upgrade ($199.00 from MacMall), however, oddly, it does not list the Student version of 2008 as an eligible upgrade vehicle. You can try calling MS support - 1-866-474-4882; M-F, 5:00 AM – 9:00 PM Pacific Time - to see if it will work (or maybe someone else here knows one way or the other).

Or .. if you own any previous MS Office individual component, say, Word 2004 or even Word '98 .. you can buy the upgrade.

Or .. or .. if the Exchange server you are trying to connect to was set up accordingly, you can try using Apple Mail - which does have some Exchange compatibility. Worth a shot.

Hope that helps.

tPet