Designating a delegate to manage my calendar in Entourage 2004

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Tom Rocklin

Greetings. We are transitioning from CorporateTime to Exchange for
calendaring. How can I give my secretary access to my calendar? I can¹t find
anything under preferences or tools.

Thanks.
 
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Tom Rocklin

I moved to Entourage 2004, and my help search for ³delegate² got a hit‹ but
not an encouraging one. The topic that seems to match is: Set up delegate
access in Outlook. Of course, I don¹t use Outlook. The first step is: 1. In
Outlook, right-click the top level of the Exchange mailbox in the Folder
list, and then click Properties.

I did find that the delegate tab in the properties pane for the Exchange
account, but so far as I can see, that tab has to do with managing
situations in which I have been given delegate access to another user¹s
account.

I¹m beginning to get a sinking feeling that I have to use Outlook under
Windows to grant my secretary access. Sat it ain¹t so!
 
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Dave Cortright

I¹m beginning to get a sinking feeling that I have to use Outlook under
Windows to grant my secretary access. Sat it ain¹t so!
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You have to have access to a Windows PC running Outlook once in order to do
the initial configuration. Once that¹s set up, you can use your Mac from
then on without touching a PC.
 
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Tom Rocklin

You have to have access to a Windows PC running Outlook once in order to do
the initial configuration. Once that¹s set up, you can use your Mac from then
on without touching a PC.


Well, so be it. I am disappointed, though. For what it is worth, this won¹t be
common, but it will be more than once. Over the past five years, because of
people coming and going and because of my having different assignments, I¹ve
probably had ten or so different delegates.

I wonder if anyone has published a complete list of things that can be done
with Outlook that can¹t be done with Entourage? One of my colleagues tells me
that synchronizing tasks is another one of these ³gotchas.²
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Daniel Feldman

Hello, Yes, you can activate the delegate's feature, but NOT in Entourage,
you need to have Outlook 2001 (which runs in classic mode, which is fine),
and from within Outlook 2001 (or, you could use Outlook for windows), you
can then go to preferences and select the delegate, and grant them access.
Once it's setup this way, the user in Entorage can then setup who they are
the delegate for, and access that users' info.

Since it's generally only done once, initially, it shouldn't be a big deal, and
you should be able to download the Outlook 2001 client software from
Microsoft's web site.
 
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