Re: Entourage 2008 not syncing with Address Book

On May 9, 8:58=A0pm, Diane Ross <di...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> "Ruby Foo" wrote:
> > Pardon what is probably a stupid question but do I need a .Mac account
> > to use Sync Services?
>
> No!
>
> >I'm confused because I've never had a .Mac
> > account yet my Entourage 2004 contacts synced with Address Book
before.
> > I have no memory of how I set that up in the first place.
>
> Open Entourage preferences and select Sync Services. Check the options
you=

> want.
>
> Entourage Database Daemon (Office Notifications) must be turned on.
> Spotlight will index any cache files the Entourage daemon has created
even=

> if the daemon is not launched, but no new cache files will be created
unti=
l
> the daemon is launched again.
>
> Basics of how Sync Services Works
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/syncservices/basics.html>
>
> --
> Diane

Is this really true.  As one of several steps to get around Entourage
2008's terrible impact on performance of the rest of my system, I have
disabled office notifications.  At least invoking the "synchronize
now" function seems to transfer events to my iMac calendar.  However,
I have also had to set options to "Entourage overwrites MAC" (or
whatever it is called) since I do not trust Entourage not to duplicate
all my calendar events.

Two questions:

1. Am I confused about something?
2. WHEN is Microsoft likely to fix the duplicating event bug?

A third question might be "are there good alternatives to Entourage
that will still sync to our Exchange data base?", but I am skeptical
that  Microsoft will be anxious to answer that one.