Collaboration with SharePoint

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JDrake

Does anyone know if SharePoint Portal Server will seeminglessly collaborate
with Entourage Project calendar - tasks - notes?? I can not find this
information anywhere on MS sites. SharePoint seems to be suited to PC
environment - however am trying to find a way that our pc users can
collaborate with Entourage users. Unfortunately our IT head doesn't know Mac
OS- or Mac office and refuses to support the platform.
 
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Paul Williams

Sharepoint is supported "up to a point" on the Macintosh. But for the
check-out/check-in of documents, you'd have to use a web browser on a
Macintosh, then use each application (Word, Excel etc.) to edit documents.
This two stage process is why we're not using Sharepoint here. There are
going to be better ways to do project documentation that don¹t require
external editors anyway.

For all the Entourage-specific features, you could do worse than look at the
Office 2004 resource kit...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/d/3ddaa17e-d508-4c28-98be-ca633ac
3b7de/MicrosoftOfficeforMac2004ResourceKitv2.pdf

....say from page 26 onwards. This gives you Microsoft¹s take on what parts
of Exchange are supported in Entourage and what the expected behaviour of
those parts is. It might be that you get richer Mac support in Sharepoint
for Entourage than for other parts of Office 2004.

As for ³refuses to support the platform², that¹s dereliction of duty!

All the best,

P.
 
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