OS X, Linux, Solaris Consulting Mac OS X Consulting Help: Mac OS X and Exchange Server Integration
Progent's Apple and Microsoft certified consultants can help you to configure Entourage and Exchange Server so your Apple Mac users can team with workers who run Microsoft Outlook. With Entourage 2008, which is included with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, you can utilize Microsoft Exchange account to send and receive your email, access your Microsoft Exchange global address list (GAL), synchronize your schedule and contacts, and invite people to meetings. Entourage for Mac works with AppleScript and the Spotlight search tool. Progent can help you understand the productivity benefits that Microsoft Entourage can offer your multi-platform network and can assist your company to configure a protected and reliable IT system that supports a mix of Entourage 2008 and Outlook users accessing the same Exchange Server.
Microsoft Entourage 2008 does not support all the synchronization features of Outlook, such as synchronizing tasks and notes, and the import/export capability of Entourage 2008 for Mac has limitations. Some companies choose to use Outlook Web Access to connect to Exchange. Progent's engineers can help your business to build an environment that permits Mac users to utilize Microsoft Outlook Web Access safely and productively.
Support for Entourage 2008 for Mac
Entourage 2008 for Mac is an information manager that helps users to deal with email, contacts, calendars, notes, and tasks. With the Exchange interface incorporated into Entourage 2008 for Mac, you can work more efficiently in an Exchange Server-based messaging system and team with associates who run Outlook as their messaging client.
Features and Benefits of Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac include:
Centralize Your Personal Information: Entourage 2008 enables you to organize your messages, contacts, schedule, notes, and task information in one convenient place.
Exchange Server Integration: You can work transparently in an Exchange environment because Entourage 2008 for Mac uses the WebDAV protocol. You can transmit and receive messages, search your Exchange global address list (GAL), import addresses, synchronize your schedule, and invite associates to meetings with your Microsoft Exchange account.
Address Book Synchronization: You can sync your contacts with those in your Microsoft Exchange address database, offering full access to your contacts at all times.
Directory Service: You can rapidly locate email addresses by searching Exchange's global address list (GAL).
Support for Many Accounts: Microsoft Entourage 2008 permits you to set up unlimited email accounts including IMAP, POP, and MSN Hotmail accounts. This enables you to manage all your email accounts with a single convenient program.
Calendar Synchronization: You can keep your Entourage 2008 for Mac Calendar synchronized with Exchange in order to keep up to date with your schedule when you are connected to the server or working offline.
Message Grouping: Entourage 2008 enables you to organize, view, and search for messages according to project, sender, time, or other criteria.
Convenient Backup: Microsoft Entourage 2008 allows users to export PIM records such as email, addresses, or schedules into an Entourage 2008 for Mac archive system to keep your PIM database clean and secure.
Microsoft Word Integration: You can send Microsoft Word documents directly as the body of messages.
Progent can assist you to plan, implement, and support a multi-platform network that enables your Apple Macintosh users to use Microsoft Entourage 2008 to access Exchange Server. Progent's Microsoft-accredited consultants and Mac OS X specialists can help you to connect your Apple Macintosh systems to your Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent will verify that your Microsoft Exchange Server is correctly set up and that WebDAV, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and Outlook Web Access are properly integrated. Progent can also provide a broad range of Exchange Server support services such as design, configuration, maintenance, security, remote access, performance optimization, plus spam filtering and virus prevention. Progent also offers customized individual Entourage education.
Additional Support Services for Exchange Server in a Multi-platform Network
For cross-platform systems that do not use Entourage for Mac but which incorporate Microsoft Exchange as well as a combination of Mac, Windows, Linux, or other common operating systems, Progent's Exchange experts can assist to combine email clients into a seamless system that optimizes the ability to collaborate and exchange data. Progent can explain the advantages and shortcomings of utilizing Microsoft Outlook Web Access as an email client for non-Microsoft systems and can help you to integrate a mix of messaging clients into your network.
Progent also provides an array of Exchange Server consulting services to help your company to improve messaging security, Exchange availability, remote and wireless Exchange connectivity, email manageability, and Exchange Server backup/restore procedures. Progent's Exchange Server upgrade services simplify and de-risk the task of moving from a legacy messaging system or an earlier release of Exchange Server to Exchange 2007. Progent also offers Exchange Server hosting support to lower the expense, simplify the administration, and improve the reliability of your Exchange Server. To find out additional information about Progent's consulting services for Exchange Server, visit Microsoft Exchange 2007 Help.
Progent's Expertise for UNIX-family Platforms
Progent's UNIX support experts offer small businesses and software developers help with administering and supporting UNIX, Linux, or Solaris networks that may coexist with Microsoft environments. Progent offers your business access to UNIX support experts, authorized Microsoft consultants, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security specialists certified by CISSP and CISM. This wide range of expertise gives you a readily available one-stop resource to help your business to build and manage a secure and resilient cross-platform network and communications solution that incorporates Microsoft technology with popular derivatives of UNIX including:
Mac OS X,
Solaris,
IBM AIX OS,
HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX),
Berkeley UNIX (BSD),
SCO and
Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX) or major Linux versions such as
RedHat,
SUSE,
Debian GNU/Linux and
Slackware Linux.
Progent's Apple and Microsoft certified consultants can help you to configure Entourage and Exchange Server so your Apple Mac users can team with workers who run Microsoft Outlook. With Entourage 2008, which is included with 
Microsoft Entourage 2008 does not support all the synchronization features of Outlook, such as synchronizing tasks and notes, and the import/export capability of Entourage 2008 for Mac has limitations. Some companies choose to use Outlook Web Access to connect to Exchange. Progent's engineers can help your business to build an environment that permits Mac users to utilize Microsoft Outlook Web Access safely and productively.
