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Mac users who need an Exchange-aware mail client from Microsoft have relied on Entourage or Microsoft Web Access. With the introduction of Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft has replaced the Entourage client with Outlook 2011. Progent's macOS and OS X specialists and Microsoft-certified Exchange engineers can assist you to maintain a legacy Entourage environment, design and carry out a smooth upgrade to Microsoft's current platform, and enhance your Exchange Server infrastructure to improve the performance, reliability, protection, collaboration support, and overall strategic value of your email, messaging, and conferencing solution.

Office Outlook for Mac, part of Office 365 for Mac, replaces Entourage and has been redesigned to deliver substantial improvements in the areas of email creation and management, scheduling, backup and restoration, search, Windows compatibility, collaboration, speed, video conferencing, voice mail, mobility support, Instant Messaging, and presence. The Office Outlook for Mac database for email messages, contact information, and calendars is now stored in individual text files, making them easier to manage. Office Outlook for Mac is also Spotlight searchable and capable of being backed up and restored using Time Machine. Configuring accounts has been simplified so you can quickly add Exchange-based accounts or accounts from major email services.

Progent's OS X integration experts and Microsoft premier support professionals can assist your company to migrate from the discontinued Entourage email client for Microsoft Exchange so your Apple Mac users can collaborate with workers who use Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Entourage enabled you ro use your Exchange account to send and receive your email, search your Exchange global address list (GAL), sync up your schedule and contact list, and invite colleagues to meetings and events. Microsoft Entourage was designed to support AppleScript as well as Apple's Spotlight search utility. Progent can assist you to integrate a secure and reliable email solution that replaces Entourage for Mac with a current email client that can access your Exchange Server.

Most of the extensive capabilities of Exchange are available to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users running any advanced browser by utilizing the Outlook Web App (previously named Outlook Web Access). Outlook Web App enables macOS, Mac OS X and Apple iOS devices to connect to email, voice mail, Instant Messages, and SMS text through Safari and other popular web browsers. Powerful capabilities of Outlook Web App include automatic conversation grouping for enhanced thread management, expanded browser compatibility, MailTips to help guard against disruptive or unsuitable email transmissions, a limitless size one-page message folder to do away with the time and effort related to advancing through messages page by page, a nickname buffer to speed up email addressing, enhanced filtering and search, calendar sharing, new presence awareness displays within contact lists, client-based IM, ActiveSync integration for SMS text messages, and user-defined favorites filters (such as unread messages) for fast access to task-relevant data.

Progent's Office Outlook for Mac 2011 Consulting Services
Microsoft Outlook for Mac is a component of Office365 for Mac and takes the place of the Entourage email client. Microsoft Outlook for Mac has been redesigned to provide significant enhancement in key facets of business communications including email creation and management, scheduling, backup and restore, search, Windows integration, teamwork, performance, voice and video conferencing, voice mail management, remote access, instant messaging, and presence awareness.

Progent can assist you to integrate Outlook for Mac 2011 into your email environment so you can benefit from its powerful new features, including:

• Conversations: Thread management is simplified by Outlook for Mac's automatic ability to arrange related messages into a single message collection.
• File Attachment Preview: The Quick Look feature enables you to preview attachments from within an email without making it necessary to open the file attachments in their appropriate applications.
• Unified Folders: Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 now automatically puts your email, drafts, sent mail and deleted messages for all of your mailboxes into consolidated folders so you no longer need to look through separate accounts and folders.
• Import Windows PST Files: Migration from a Windows client is simplified by the ability to import Windows email PST files directly to Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 without requiring external software.
• Filter by Category: You can quickly view critical calendar items and contacts according to the categories you specify.
• Overlay Calendar View: Office Outlook for Mac 2011 can stack shared calendars so you can immediately uncover scheduling conflicts.
• Calendar Preview: A schedule snapshot shown in a meeting invitation enables you to spot scheduling conflicts or check adjacent meetings immediately.
• Reply with Meeting: You can generate a meeting invitation in a single-click reply to an email.
• Contact Card: Running Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 or Microsoft Communications Server with Communicator for Mac 2011, you can see presence information in the Outlook for Mac contact card and initiate IM, a voice or video conference, or a voice call from within Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011.
• Contacts Search: You can quickly search your contacts from any view in Outlook for Mac 2011.
• IRM Security: With the volume-license edition of Outlook for Mac 2011 and a Rights Management server running with Windows Server 2008, you can provide advanced security for sensitive messages.
• Offline Address Books: New support for offline contact data gives mobile users continual access to contact data.
• Voice Mail Preview: When used with Exchange Server 2010, Office Outlook for Mac 2011 can convert voice mail to readable text messages and put them into your inbox to cut the time spent during the often tedious process of checking voice mail.

Support Services for Entourage 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac was designed as a personal information manager that helps you to manage email, contacts, schedules, notes, and tasks. Thanks to the Exchange support incorporated into Entourage 2008 for Mac, you can operate more efficiently in an Exchange Server-powered email system and team with associates who run Microsoft Outlook as their email client.

Features of Entourage 2008 include:

• Centralize Personal Data: Entourage 2008 for Mac allows you to consolidate your messages, contacts, schedule, notes, and task details in one convenient location.
• Microsoft Exchange Support: Users can operate transparently in an Exchange system because Microsoft Entourage 2008 utilizes the WebDAV standard. You can transmit and get email, search your Exchange global address list, import addresses, sync your calendar, and invite people to events through your Exchange account.
• Contact Synchronization: You can sync your contacts with those in your Microsoft Exchange address database, providing complete access to your address list at all times.
• Directory Service: You can quickly find email addresses by searching Exchange's global address list (GAL).
• Access to Many Email Accounts: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac permits you to establish multiple accounts which can include IMAP, POP, and MSN Hotmail type accounts. This allows you to handle all your email accounts with one convenient program.
• Calendar Synchronization: You can keep your Entourage 2008 for Mac Calendar in sync with Exchange server to remain current with your schedule when you are online or offline.
• Message Organization: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac enables you to organize, read, and look for messages based on project, sender, date, or other criteria.
• Efficient Archiving: Entourage 2008 enables users to export PIM data including messages, contacts, or schedules to an Entourage 2008 backup package to keep your personal information clean and safe.
• Microsoft Word Integration: You can send Word files directly as the content of messages.

Comprehensive Support Services for Exchange Server in a Cross-platform Environment
For multi-platform environments that do not utilize Outlook for Mac but which incorporate Microsoft Exchange plus a mix of Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux/UNIX, or other common platforms, Progent's network engineers can assist to combine messaging clients into a seamless solution that optimizes the ability to cooperate and exchange information. Progent can explain the benefits and limitations of using Microsoft Outlook Web as an email client for non-Windows computers and can assist your company to incorporate a mix of messaging clients into your network.

Progent also provides a range of Microsoft Exchange consulting services to help you to improve email protection, Exchange Server fault-tolerance, off-site and wireless Exchange connectivity, messaging system administration, and Exchange Server backup/restore processes. Progent's Exchange Server upgrade and migration support services streamline and de-risk the job of moving from a legacy email system or an older version of Exchange Server to a current version. Progent also provides Exchange Server hosting support to lower the expense, simplify the management, and increase the fault tolerance of your Microsoft Exchange Server. To find out more details concerning Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Exchange, refer to Microsoft Exchange Consultants.

Contact Progent to Connect Apple macOS and OS X Clients and Microsoft Exchange Server
If your organization is in need of a Mac expert, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

Progent's Consulting Services for UNIX-family Networks
Progent's UNIX-family consulting services provide small businesses and developers help with managing and servicing UNIX/Linux/Mac-based systems that can coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your company contact with UNIX support professionals, authorized Microsoft engineers, Cisco CCIEs, and security experts certified by CISSP. This broad range of knowledge offers you a readily available one-stop source to assist your business to build and manage a secure and dependable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that blends Microsoft technology with popular versions of UNIX such as: macOS and OS X , Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO UNIX and SGI/Irix or major Linux distributions including RedHat, SUSE Linux, Debian-GNU and CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Mandriva, PCLlinuxOS Linux, fedora, and Gentoo.