Mac on Exchange?

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EnzoM3

We're thinking about going to a hosted Exchange server for approximately 10
users. Only one uses a ibook and rest all use windows. The goal is to able
to centrally manage emails, adderss books, calenders, documents, etc. I
know Outlook has no problem with it.

I see two solutions for the ibook user. One is to run Virtual PC, but I
hear it's really slow and and it'll be running all the time, not
occasionally. Second solution is to use Office 2004 for Mac. But I keep on
hear how bad Entourage is. Can someone give me some feedback regarding
those two approaches?

Thanks,

Jim
 
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Barry Wainwright

We're thinking about going to a hosted Exchange server for approximately 10
users. Only one uses a ibook and rest all use windows. The goal is to able
to centrally manage emails, adderss books, calenders, documents, etc. I
know Outlook has no problem with it.

I see two solutions for the ibook user. One is to run Virtual PC, but I
hear it's really slow and and it'll be running all the time, not
occasionally.
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VPC is OK for occasional use, not for all day every day access.
Second solution is to use Office 2004 for Mac. But I keep on
hear how bad Entourage is.
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I don't know who told you that. I find Entourage eminently useable in
Exchange, and support is set to improve dramatically in the next release,
according to this:

Microsoft Previews Valuable Tools for Office for Mac Customers: Microsoft's
Mac BU Delivers on Requests From Enterprise Customers
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jan05/01-11Macworld2005PR.msp
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Third Option:
You could use Outlook Web Access to gain access to mail, calendars and just
about everything in an exchange account. OWA works just fine with the main
Mac Browsers.
 
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Steven W. Buehler

We're thinking about going to a hosted Exchange server for approximately 10
users. Only one uses a ibook and rest all use windows. The goal is to able
to centrally manage emails, adderss books, calenders, documents, etc. I
know Outlook has no problem with it.

I see two solutions for the ibook user. One is to run Virtual PC, but I
hear it's really slow and and it'll be running all the time, not
occasionally. Second solution is to use Office 2004 for Mac. But I keep on
hear how bad Entourage is. Can someone give me some feedback regarding
those two approaches?
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If you're going to connect Entourage to Exchange, the Exchange server will
need Outlook Web Access installed and operational in order to work with the
server.
 
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Jeffrey Gordon

EnzoM3 said:
We're thinking about going to a hosted Exchange server for approximately 10
users. Only one uses a ibook and rest all use windows. The goal is to able
to centrally manage emails, adderss books, calenders, documents, etc. I
know Outlook has no problem with it.

I see two solutions for the ibook user. One is to run Virtual PC, but I
hear it's really slow and and it'll be running all the time, not
occasionally. Second solution is to use Office 2004 for Mac. But I keep on
hear how bad Entourage is. Can someone give me some feedback regarding
those two approaches?

Thanks,

Jim
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Hi Jim... why not just use the Outlook for Mac client? I believe you
can still download it from Microsoft's website.

~Jeff
 
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Fionnbar Lenihan

Not sure if really relevant to exchange but I use Entourage in generally
windows environment at work for IMAP access and it works fine for that.

Much as I hate to admit it, Entourage is a pretty OK product for email and
PIM.

Fionnbar
 
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rliebsch

Outlook Web Access may be your best bet. If it is running on the hoste
service and doesn't require a special VPN connection to the datacenter
you could use Entourage 2004. However, in a integrated sense, Entourag
has many problems with Exchange, specifically Exchange 2000. I don'
know about Exchange 2003, as we haven't made the change yet. However,
would imagine that by now all hosted Exchange environments are alread
2003.

If they don't have OWA running, and your user doesn't mind Classic, yo
can use Outlook 2001 for Macintosh. It is a fully functioning MAP
client and works brilliantly. Classic will die occasionally, but if yo
have tuned your extensions and control panels you can usually get you
footprint for classic down to about 10MB, so it will restart VER
quickly.

Its rough being a Mac user in an Exchange/AD environment. It is wors
when you were in a Windows environment and everyone "switched" and you
infrastructure is stilll Exchange/AD. Worse yet, I am still the admin
 
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