Thanks Mart Given this institution is only just rolling it out (our building is one of the trial bunny rabbits) one hopes they have coughed up for Exchange 2007!
On 5/03/10 4:52 PM, "Martin Hill" <marth...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Yeah, we know your pain. > > I have regularly had Entourage corrupt itself and delete hundreds of > emails and calendar appointments without telling me after running the > Rebuild database process, so make sure you keep great backups. (It > also nastily goes and deletes those items from all my other computers > that are also using that exchange account (b...@#$%d!) so I've lost heaps > of valuable data over the last few years. I've never sworn so much at > a piece of software. :-( > > Here at my institution, we are still stuck using MS Exchange 2003. > Unfortunately Snow Leopard Mail and iCal require Exchange 2007 or > greater for full integration so we don't have that option. > > We are hoping that the brand new "full" Outlook Mac client that > Microsoft has announced they will be releasing sometime this year will > hopefully do a better job of compatibility with Exchange. The > question will be of course, how Mac-friendly will it be? > > I've actually given up Entourage on my work Mac Pro and am using the > horrible Windows Outlook client in VMware instead - oh the humanity! > (at least it hasn't lost my mail yet...yeah I know, just wait till a > PST file goes south...) > > -Mart > > ------------------------------------ > Martin Hill > mailto:mart_h...@mac.com > homepages: http://web.mac.com/mart_hill > Mb: 0401-103-194 hm: (08)9314-5242 > > On 05/03/2010, at 3:51 PM, David Paul wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> My employer has just forced us onto Entourage because they have >> shifted to a >> MS Exchange server. After over a decade of happily using Eudora and >> then >> Mail what a backward step! >> >> Apart from a headache from trying to work out which is THE inbox >> (why have >> two???) having to repeatedly give permission to to check my external >> mail >> despite already having done this in keychain, no ical events in the >> new >> supposedly integrated calendar in Entourage, ... What could be better! >> >> This has prompted me to update my Macbook pro from 10.5.8 to 10.6 >> so I can >> go back to using Mail and try its ability to link to MS Exchange >> Server - I >> hope it works well as entourage is not, in my view a clean user >> friendlyprogram. I mean you can not even drag and drop an email into a >> folder but have to go through two drop down menus. How efficient and >> time >> saving is that! >> >> Anyway does anyone have experience using mail in 10.6 and MS Exchange >> server? There seems to be a bit of chatter about it not always being a >> smooth ride or setup so some tips and cautions would be appreciated. >> >> Regards >> Dave >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
