Anyone have a guess as to the odds of Office 2008 adding full MAPI sup****t
to Entourage?
Way back in 2003 Microsoft said:
This version of Exchange does not sup****t MAPI. Through working with our
customers and the Exchange team, we determined that adding calendar and
address book sup****t through WebDAV was the most efficient and timely way
to
meet our customers' needs. Entourage X sup****ts IMAP protocol for
accessing
email from the Exchange server and will continue this sup****t.
-from http://macwindows.com/entourage.html
And ever since, enterprise Mac Entourage users have been hoping and
praying
for a "real" Outlook client from Microsoft. We are still using Outlook
2001
in Mac OS 10.4.X classic mode (yecch!) to overcome the following
shortcomings of a non-existant MAPI OS X based clients:
Entourage 2004 provides a solution for e-mail, group calendaring,
scheduling, Global Address Book, and delegation only. Certain
advanced Exchange features, such as voting, shared tasks, shared
notes, and server-side rules, are not accessible.
Entourage 2004 does not provide full public folder or delegation
sup****t.
Although rules stored on Exchange Server will run, Exchange
Server-based rules cannot be created or changed by using Entourage.
To change a server-based rule from the Macintosh computer, users must
use Microsoft Outlook.
Entourage does not detect whether an invitation is out of date or
conflicts with other events.
Entourage does not sup****t invitation counterproposals in Outlook.
Entourage does not perform out-of-office responses in the same way
that Outlook does. To configure an out-of-office response in
Entourage, a user must create a rule.
Entourage 2004 has the following limitations for public folders:
--Only e-mail messages appear in Entourage. Other item types that
might be in the public folder - such as Calendar events, contacts, or
tasks - do not appear in Entourage.
--To have Entourage automatically download the messages in a specific
public folder, a user must subscribe to that folder.
--Public folders cannot be created, dragged, moved, renamed, or
deleted by using Microsoft Entourage.
--Downloading the public folder list from the Exchange server can be
very slow if there are many folders.
--Entourage does not save the list of public folders. The list is
downloaded every time the user selects the top-level public folders
container. To avoid downloading the folder list frequently, users can
subscribe to their favorite public folders in Entourage. Subscribed
folders in Entourage are not added to the Outlook public folders
Favorites list, nor are folders in the Outlook public folders
Favorites list added to subscribed folders in Entourage.
--Users cannot post directly to a public folder. To post a message,
the public folder must have an e-mail address, and the user must have
the correct access privileges. Users can also drag existing messages
to a public folder, depending on a user's privileges.
Users cannot browse Global Address List
To search for an e-mail address by using the Directory Services tool
1. On the Tools menu, click Directory Services.
2. In the Server List, click the directory service you want to
search.
3. In the Search for name box, type the name of the person whose
e-mail address you want to find.
4. Click Find.
5. In the list of search results, double-click an entry to view more
information.
And a recap:
Differences between Entourage 2004 and Outlook for Mac
The following list of the notable differences between Entourage 2004
and Outlook will help you plan Entourage 2004 deployment and diagnose
Entourage issues:
.. Entourage uses the WebDAV protocol to communicate with the Exchange
server and manage mail, Calendar, and contacts. Outlook uses a
MAPI-based architecture to communicate with the Exchange server.
.. Entourage provides no offline access to the Global Address List.
Offline, recently used addresses obtained from the Global Address
List will appear in the most recently used list provided in the To
field of an Entourage message.
.. Users cannot browse the Global Address List in Entourage (that is,
scroll the Global Address List from A to Z).
.. Entourage does not sup****t multiple Calendar or Contacts folders.
This applies to Delegation and public folders as well as to the main
account.
.. Entourage does not sup****t setting permissions.
.. Entourage does not sup****t disabling the Entourage user interface
based on permissions.
.. Entourage does not sup****t mapping from subscribed public folders
in Entourage to public folder favorites in Outlook.
.. Entourage does not sup****t Outlook forms, voting buttons, RTF
message formatting, or receipt tracking.
.. Entourage does not sup****t server-side rules (including
out-of-office messages). Entourage users connecting to an Exchange
2003 server can use Outlook Web Access for out-of-office messages.
.. Entourage does not sup****t password expiration notification or the
ability to change the user account password.
.. Entourage does not sup****t quota management.
.. Entourage does not sup****t synchronizing Tasks or Notes to Exchange
servers.
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I'm hoping this time they get it right, otherwise I'd be guessing the
answer
is to switch to a Windows based platform, which doesn't give the Mac
Business Unit much of a reason to keep releasing software, right?
-Jay
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