BEWARE: Office 2004 Bugs Abundance
After a few days of use, I can affirm that this should not have been released. It has more bugs than my Florida back-yard in mid-July.
Entourage crashes (on several machines) when trying to change fonts in the Signature or E-mail windows.
Sync with Palm will not work. Attempts to open the provided Entourage Conduit Settings in the Hotsync Manager create an immediate crash of Hotsync.
Will not open attachments in Entourage consistently: Crashes or freezes Excel on open.
Drops IMAP mailbox passwords FREQUENTLY for no reason. Apple's Mail (simultaneous connection on another machine) has no such issues.
On and on and on...
I recommend saving your money until a patch/update is released.
Entourage crashes (on several machines) when trying to change fonts in the Signature or E-mail windows.
Sync with Palm will not work. Attempts to open the provided Entourage Conduit Settings in the Hotsync Manager create an immediate crash of Hotsync.
Will not open attachments in Entourage consistently: Crashes or freezes Excel on open.
Drops IMAP mailbox passwords FREQUENTLY for no reason. Apple's Mail (simultaneous connection on another machine) has no such issues.
On and on and on...
I recommend saving your money until a patch/update is released.
Comments
I haven't had enough time to really get into the meat of it but even just that small thing shows that there still needs a bit of spit and polish.
Does it work well with Exchange Server? Please expand on any comments!
Does it support .pst files?
Does it work at all? :0)
Originally posted by dstranathan
PLEASE answer these Entourage questions:
Does it work well with Exchange Server? Please expand on any comments!
Does it support .pst files?
Does it work at all? :0)
It works well with our Exchange server (Exchange 2000). Public folders have some support but support for public contacts and calendars is still missing. No GAL browsing but the directory service now shows info beyond basic LDAP. I've even tested (extensively) delegate support. And even though it's rough, it worked, even calendaring.
PST files? I wish.
I am about ready to give up submitting that bug (it would be like the 200th time, or so it feels like)
Originally posted by dstranathan
PLEASE answer these Entourage questions:
Does it work well with Exchange Server? Please expand on any comments!
Does it support .pst files?
Does it work at all? :0)
As a follow up to the previous reply to your question. Exchange support has seen only small improvements over X; my company STILL runs a 5.5 server and I can only connect via IMAP, with no access to GAL, Calendar etc. There is NO .pst support
Given the strength of iSync (with .Mac) making my contacts/calendar available to all of my Macs, I plan on sticking with Apple's apps as my primary business tools. Hopefully Tiger brings a few new features that will keep Mail/AB/iCal ahead of Entourage.
Originally posted by Sport73
As a follow up to the previous reply to your question. Exchange support has seen only small improvements over X; my company STILL runs a 5.5 server and I can only connect via IMAP, with no access to GAL, Calendar etc. There is NO .pst support
Given the strength of iSync (with .Mac) making my contacts/calendar available to all of my Macs, I plan on sticking with Apple's apps as my primary business tools. Hopefully Tiger brings a few new features that will keep Mail/AB/iCal ahead of Entourage.
Just in case MS's Exchange solutions for Mac users is detailed here http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support.aspx?pid=exchange
Also for all those people still running Exchange 5.5 note that it is now in its extended support period http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeSrvr
Daniel