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
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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
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