Entourage 2004

J

Jason Mondares

Question for the group:

I've read as much as I can about what limited information is available about
Office 2004, but there's been no mention of whether or not support for
Exchange mode in Entourage will improve or not. Has anyone heard anything
about what is being planned or is in the works for improving Exchange
support?

Specifically, I'm curious about the following areas:

* PST support,
* Browsing the Global Address Book WITHOUT using Check Names,
* Ability to connect to other users' Exchange calendars,
* Ability to check users' Exchange calendars to see whether or not they are
busy,
* Support for Exchange public folders that have calendars,
* Being able to set permissions for individual mailboxes (i.e. Give other
users on the domain the ability to send mail on their behalf), and
* Create Out-of-Office messages that are stored on the Exchange server, and
not require Entourage to be running 24/7 in order for it to work?

On my campus, we have a number of band-aid workarounds, such as using
Outlook Web Access, Outlook XP through Citrix, and Outlook for Windows, but
things like these are becoming a bit frustrating for our Mac users here,
especially now that 10.3 and Outlook 2001 are really not getting along
(apparently this is a bug in Outlook 2001 from the Googling I've done).

Is anyone at liberty to say anything about Entourage 2004's upcoming
changes?

Thanks,

Jason
 
C

Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

Jason Mondares said:
Is anyone at liberty to say anything about Entourage 2004's upcoming
changes?
Click to expand...

I doubt it... I don't think anyone will be able to release any
information unless it is first announced by MS or before Office 2004 is
out.


Corentin
 
M

Mike Tuller

I have a bad feeling that if they were going to implement any of the
features you have listed below, they would say so right away. I hope that I
am wrong, but we may be in for another half-assed version of Entourage.

I would much rather have full Exchange support than a project manager that I
will never use.


Mike Tuller
 
B

Bill Robertson

I have a beta release copy of Office 2004. I can't reveal any details, of
course, but I believe I am within legal bounds by predicting you will be
very happy with Entourage. Not ecstatic, necessarily, but very happy, at the
least.
 
M

MacManMike

Just wanted to say, "Thank you" to Jason here. His pain appears to be
our pain. As an Exchange manager, I am tired of not having a usable
Mac email client for Mac OSX.

Any suggestions by anyone would be appreciated.

Thanks,

D. Michael Martin, Jr.
University of Montevallo

PS - Why did they add a "Project Center"? They need a database
program like Access in Office for the PC. Hey Microsoft, open your
wallet and buy FileMaker from Apple!!! If you did, you could kill two
birds with one stone. 1. A database for Office Mac, and 2. A
monopoly on the best database products out there (Mac or
otherwise)...Microsoft does like having a corner on the market don't
they?
 
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