Flaky calendaring behavior in Entourage 2008

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msteinb

I am running the latest version (current with Microsoft recommended
updates). I run 2 copies of Entourage: one on my Mac Pro when I am
home and 1 on my Macbook Pro when I am on the road. I see 2 issues
come up repeatedly:

1. If a meeting gets forwarded to me on behalf of someone else, any
attachments are not included. I see the text of the attachment file
name, but the attachment itself is missing. I usually have go into OWA
to fetch it.

2. If a meeting is re-scheduled by someone and I change the meeting, I
do not see it on the other Entourage all of the time. It is like it
does not exist, so I have to open up the Entourage where the change
took place and grab the meeting requests from there. Sometimes even
OWA does not see it; it is like it is only changed locally.

Any ideas or help? I really don't want to run VMware with XP just for
Outlook, although I still feel Entourage is not as complete as Outlook
is. If I can get around these 2 issues, I would be very happy.

Mike
 
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William Smith [MVP]

1. If a meeting gets forwarded to me on behalf of someone else, any
attachments are not included. I see the text of the attachment file
name, but the attachment itself is missing. I usually have go into OWA
to fetch it.

2. If a meeting is re-scheduled by someone and I change the meeting, I
do not see it on the other Entourage all of the time. It is like it
does not exist, so I have to open up the Entourage where the change
took place and grab the meeting requests from there. Sometimes even
OWA does not see it; it is like it is only changed locally.

Any ideas or help? I really don't want to run VMware with XP just for
Outlook, although I still feel Entourage is not as complete as Outlook
is. If I can get around these 2 issues, I would be very happy.
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Hi Mike!

Running Outlook may be your only option. I'm not sure about the first
problem but the second sounds like an instance of "complex calendaring",
which is not supported with applications that use the WebDAV protocol to
connect to Exchange (read that as "Entourage").

Have a look at this KB article on Microsoft's website and see if it
comes close to describing what you're seeing.

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920134>

I'm not sure if this applies only to Exchange Server 2003 or also
applies to Exchange Server 2007.

If all you need is to run Outlook then consider using CrossOver Mac from
<http://www.codeweavers.com>. It has far less overhead than running
Windows in a virtual machine.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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