Mac users who want an Exchange-aware email client from Microsoft have relied on Microsoft Entourage or Microsoft Web Access. Following the introduction of Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft has replaced Entourage with Outlook for Mac 2011. Progent's macOS and OS X technology experts and Microsoft-certified Exchange Server engineers can assist you to support a legacy Entourage environment, plan and carry out a smooth migration to Microsoft's latest technology, and revamp your Exchange Server infrastructure to improve the speed, reliability, protection, collaboration support, and general strategic impact of your email, messaging, and conferencing ecosystem.
Office Outlook for Mac, available in Office 365 for Mac, replaces Entourage and has been re-architected to provide significant enhancements in the areas of email creation and management, scheduling, backup and restoration, search, Windows coexistence, sharing, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail, mobility support, IM, and presence. The Microsoft Outlook for Mac database for email messages, contacts, and calendars is now stored in individual text files, making them simpler to control. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is also Spotlight searchable and able to be copied and restored with Time Machine. Configuring accounts has been streamlined so you can easily add Exchange-based accounts or accounts from popular email services.
Progent's Mac OS X technology experts and Microsoft certified support professionals can assist you to upgrade from the discontinued Entourage email client for Microsoft Exchange Server so your Mac users can team with colleagues who use Microsoft Outlook. Entourage enabled you ro utilize your Exchange account to send and receive your email, search your Exchange global address list, synchronize your schedule and contact list, and invite people to meetings and events. Entourage for Mac was designed to support AppleScript and the Spotlight search utility. Progent can help you to integrate a secure and dependable email solution that replaces Entourage for Mac with a current email client that can access your Exchange Server.
The majority of the extensive capabilities of Microsoft Exchange are accessible to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users running any full-featured web browser by utilizing the enhanced Outlook Web App (previously named Outlook Web Access). Outlook Web App enables macOS, OS X and Apple iOS devices to access email, voice messages, Instant Messages, and test through Apple Safari and other popular web browsers. Powerful features of Outlook Web App include conversation grouping for simplified thread control, expanded browser compatibility, MailTips to avoid disruptive or unsuitable email transmissions, a limitless size one-page email message folder to do away with the time and effort associated with advancing through email messages page by page, a nickname buffer to streamline email addressing, enhanced filtering and search options, calendar sharing, rich presence awareness indicators inside contact lists, client-based Instant Messaging, ActiveSync integration for SMS text messages, and user-defined favorites filters (like unread emails) for fast retrieval of task-relevant information.
Progent's Office Outlook for Mac 2011 Support Services
Microsoft Outlook for Mac is included with Office365 for Mac and takes the place of Entourage. Microsoft Outlook for Mac has been redesigned to offer significant improvements in key areas of unified messaging such as email usability and control, calendaring, backup/recovery, search, Windows integration, collaboration, performance, voice and video conferencing, voice mail management, remote access, instant messaging, and presence.
Progent can assist you to integrate Outlook for Mac into your email environment so you can take advantage of its new features, including:
Support Services for Entourage 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Entourage 2008 was designed as a personal information manager that helps you to deal with email messages, contacts, schedules, notes, and projects. With the Exchange interface built into Entourage 2008 for Mac, you can work more productively in a Microsoft Exchange Server-based messaging system and collaborate with associates who use Outlook as their messaging client software.
Features of Entourage 2008 include:
Comprehensive Support for Microsoft Exchange Server in a Cross-platform Network
For multi-platform networks that do not utilize Outlook for Mac but which incorporate Microsoft Exchange as well as a combination of Mac, Windows, Linux, or other common operating systems, Progent's consultants can assist to integrate messaging clients within a cohesive solution that maximizes the ability to cooperate and exchange data. Progent can clarify the advantages and limitations of utilizing Outlook Web App as a messaging client for non-Windows computers and can assist you to integrate a variety of email clients into your network.
Progent also provides a range of Exchange Server consulting services to assist you to improve email protection, Exchange Server availability, off-site and wireless Exchange connectivity, email manageability, and Exchange Server backup/restore processes. Progent's Exchange upgrade support services streamline and de-risk the job of going from an outdated messaging platform or an earlier version of Exchange to a current version. Progent also provides Exchange Server hosting to lower the cost, streamline the management, and increase the availability of your Exchange Server. To learn additional details concerning Progent's consulting support for Exchange Server, see Microsoft Exchange Help.
Contact Progent to Integrate Apple macOS and OS X Clients and Microsoft Exchange Server
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Progent's Help for UNIX-based Networks
Progent's UNIX-family support experts provide small companies and developers assistance with administering and servicing UNIX/Linux/Mac-based systems that may operate alongside Microsoft-based environments. Progent provides your company contact with UNIX support professionals, certified Microsoft engineers, Cisco CCIEs, and security specialists accredited by CISSP and CISM. This broad array of expertise gives you a convenient one-stop resource to help your business to build and manage a safe and dependable cross-platform connectivity and communications infrastructure that blends Microsoft technology with popular versions of UNIX including:
macOS and OS X ,
Solaris,
IBM AIX Open UNIX,
HP-UX,
BSD,
SCO UNIX and
SGI/Irix or major Linux distributions including
RedHat Linux,
SUSE,
Debian GNU/Linux and
CentOS,
Ubuntu,
Mandriva Linux,
PCLlinuxOS Linux,
fedora, and
Gentoo Linux.