Progent's Apple and Microsoft qualified support experts can help your company to set up Entourage and Microsoft Exchange so your Mac users can team with colleagues who run Outlook client. With Microsoft Entourage 2008, which is available with Office 2008 for Mac, you can utilize Microsoft Exchange account to send and receive your email, access your Exchange global address list, sync up your calendar and contacts, and invite people to meetings. Entourage for Mac works with AppleScript and Apple's Spotlight search utility. Progent can explain the efficiency advantages that Microsoft Entourage can bring to your cross-platform network and can assist your company to configure a protected and reliable information network that accommodates a mix of Entourage for Mac and Microsoft Outlook clients accessing the same Exchange Server.
Microsoft Entourage 2008 does not offer all the synchronization capabilities of Outlook, such as synchronizing tasks and notes, and the import/export capability of Microsoft Entourage 2008 has limitations. Some organizations choose to utilize Outlook Web Access to interface with their Exchange server. Progent's consultants can assist you to create an environment that permits Mac clients to utilize Microsoft Outlook Web Access securely and productively.
Support Services for Entourage 2008 for Mac
Entourage 2008 for Mac is an information manager that assists users to manage email messages, contacts, calendars, notes, and projects. With the Exchange Server support built into Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, users can operate more productively in a Microsoft Exchange Server-powered messaging system and collaborate with colleagues who use Microsoft Outlook as their messaging client software.
Features of Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac include:
- Consolidate Personal Data: Entourage 2008 enables you to consolidate your messages, contacts, calendar, notes, and task details in one easy-to-access place.
- Microsoft Exchange Integration: Users can operate seamlessly in an Exchange Server system because Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac utilizes the WebDAV protocol. You can transmit and get messages, search the Exchange global address list, import addresses, sync up your schedule, and invite associates to meetings through your Exchange account.
- Address Book Synchronization: You can sync your contacts with your Exchange personal address book, offering complete access to your address list at all times.
- Directory Search: You can rapidly locate email addresses by searching Exchange's global address list (GAL).
- Access to Many Email Accounts: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac permits you to establish unlimited email accounts including IMAP, POP, and MSN Hotmail accounts. This enables you to handle all your email with one convenient tool.
- Schedule Synchronization: You can keep your Entourage 2008 for Mac Calendar in sync with Exchange to keep up to date with your schedule when you are online or working offline.
- Message Organization: Entourage 2008 for Mac enables you to group, read, and search for messages according to project, sender, date, or other fields.
- Easy Archiving: Microsoft Entourage 2008 allows you to export PIM data including as messages, addresses, or calendars into an Entourage 2008 for Mac backup system to keep your PIM information clean and secure.
- Microsoft Word Integration: You can send Microsoft Word documents from Word as the content of messages.
Progent can help your company to design, implement, and maintain a cross-platform network that allows your Mac OS X clients to use Entourage 2008 for Mac to access Microsoft Exchange. Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants and Mac OS X specialists can help your company to connect your Mac OS X computers to your Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent will make sure that your Exchange Server is correctly configured and that WebDAV, LDAP, and Outlook Web Access are properly integrated. Progent can also deliver a broad range of MS Exchange support services including planning, configuration, troubleshooting, protection, remote access, performance tuning, plus spam filtering and virus prevention. Progent also offers customized individual Entourage for Mac education.
Comprehensive Support Services for Exchange Server in a Cross-platform Environment
For cross-platform environments that do not use Entourage for Mac but which include Microsoft Exchange plus a mix of Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or other popular platforms, Progent's Exchange experts can assist to integrate email clients within a seamless solution that maximizes the ability to collaborate and exchange data. Progent can explain the benefits and limitations of using Microsoft Outlook Web Access as an email client for non-Windows computers and can help you to integrate a mix of messaging clients into your network.
Progent also offers a range of Exchange Server consulting services to help you to enhance email security, Exchange fault-tolerance, off-site and mobile email access, email manageability, and Exchange backup/restore processes. Progent's Exchange upgrade services simplify and de-risk the job of moving from a legacy messaging system or an earlier release of Exchange Server to Exchange 2007. Progent also provides Exchange Server hosting service to reduce the cost, simplify the administration, and improve the fault tolerance of your Exchange Server. To find out additional information about Progent's professional services for Exchange, refer to Microsoft Exchange 2007 Help.
Contact Progent to Integrate Mac Clients and Exchange Server
If your organization is looking for a Mac OS X expert, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at apple-help@progent.com.
