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RedClaw
According to Microsoft's site, Entourage 2008 will not be able to synchronize the following items with an Exchange server:
Server side Rules
Notes
Tasks
Categories
Contacts' e-mail addresses limited to first three entries
Travel time in calendar items
Excuse me, but for being an application that is geared toward corporate entities I believe this is a very large short-coming. I work in an IT department and am always going between platforms. I need to have the ability to see ALL of the items that I input all the time. In my line of work, there is no exception to this. Daily tasks can change on an almost hourly basis.
I am very dissatisfied with the fact that these items have been left off. This seems to depreciate the value of Entourage as well. If it was not for the fact that I still need to use Entourage for calendar support I would stop using it now as there is no other compelling reason.
There also appears to be some issues of loss of information when synchronizing to Exchange. For example, the Contacts' mailing addresses being limited to only the first three entries is a limitation. This loss of information could lead to an e-mail not getting to the person in a timely manner. For example because only the first three address are synchronized, If I'm off site and need to e-mail my supervisor something, I should not have to make sure that the e-mail address he/she is at is listed at is one of the first three on my office computer.
Travel time in calendar items is also a big missing feature. If I put travel time down for commuting from the main building to another site and back again, how are others going to know not to schedule an overlapping event? To date, I've had to contend with putting in multiple events to overcome this shortcoming.
I was very much hoping that these issues would be address with this version, but they have not. I just hope that these issues are resolved in a timely manner and full synchronization support that is available in Outlook 2007 for PC is made available for Entourage 2008 for Mac.
Server side Rules
Notes
Tasks
Categories
Contacts' e-mail addresses limited to first three entries
Travel time in calendar items
Excuse me, but for being an application that is geared toward corporate entities I believe this is a very large short-coming. I work in an IT department and am always going between platforms. I need to have the ability to see ALL of the items that I input all the time. In my line of work, there is no exception to this. Daily tasks can change on an almost hourly basis.
I am very dissatisfied with the fact that these items have been left off. This seems to depreciate the value of Entourage as well. If it was not for the fact that I still need to use Entourage for calendar support I would stop using it now as there is no other compelling reason.
There also appears to be some issues of loss of information when synchronizing to Exchange. For example, the Contacts' mailing addresses being limited to only the first three entries is a limitation. This loss of information could lead to an e-mail not getting to the person in a timely manner. For example because only the first three address are synchronized, If I'm off site and need to e-mail my supervisor something, I should not have to make sure that the e-mail address he/she is at is listed at is one of the first three on my office computer.
Travel time in calendar items is also a big missing feature. If I put travel time down for commuting from the main building to another site and back again, how are others going to know not to schedule an overlapping event? To date, I've had to contend with putting in multiple events to overcome this shortcoming.
I was very much hoping that these issues would be address with this version, but they have not. I just hope that these issues are resolved in a timely manner and full synchronization support that is available in Outlook 2007 for PC is made available for Entourage 2008 for Mac.