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Mac users who want an Exchange-compatible mail client from Microsoft have relied on Microsoft Entourage or Microsoft Web Access. With the introduction of Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft has replaced the Entourage client with Outlook for Mac 2011. Progent's Mac specialists and Microsoft-certified Exchange Server consultants can assist you to maintain a legacy Entourage system, plan and carry out an efficient migration to Microsoft's current platform, and enhance your Exchange infrastructure to optimize the performance, reliability, security, collaboration support, and general business value of your email, messaging, and video conferencing ecosystem.

Office Outlook for Mac, available in Office 365 for Mac, takes the place of Entourage and has been re-architected to deliver significant enhancements in the areas of usability, calendar management, backup and restore, search, Windows compatibility, sharing, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail, mobility, IM, and presence. The Outlook for Mac database for email, contact information, and calendars is now saved in separate text files, making them easier to manage. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is also directly Spotlight searchable and able to be copied and restored using Apple Time Machine. Configuring accounts has been streamlined so you can easily add either Exchange-based accounts or accounts from popular services.

Progent's Mac integration experts and Microsoft premier consultants can help your company to upgrade from the discontinued Entourage email client for Exchange Server so your Mac users can collaborate with colleagues who run Outlook client. Entourage enabled you ro use your Microsoft Exchange account to send and receive your email, search your Exchange global address list (GAL), synchronize your schedule and contact list, and invite colleagues to meetings. Entourage for Mac was designed to work with AppleScript and Apple's Spotlight search utility. Progent can assist you to integrate a secure and reliable messaging solution that replaces Entourage for Mac with a current email client that can access your Exchange Server.

Most of the features of Microsoft Exchange are available to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users running any full-featured web browser by using the enhanced Outlook Web App (formerly called 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 major browsers. Powerful capabilities of Outlook Web App include conversation grouping for enhanced thread management, extended browser compatibility, MailTips to help guard against disruptive or unsuitable email transmissions, a limitless size single-page message folder to do away with the time and effort related to advancing through messages manually, a nickname buffer to speed up email addressing, enhanced filtering and search options, shared calendars, new presence displays within contact lists, client-based IM, ActiveSync support for test messages, and customizable favorites filters (like unread messages) for quick access to critical data.

Progent's Office Outlook for Mac 2011 Support Expertise
Microsoft Outlook for Mac is included with Microsoft Office365 for Mac and takes the place of the Entourage email client. Outlook for Mac has been re-architected to offer significant improvements in key areas of business communications such as email usability and control, calendaring, backup/recovery, search, Windows integration, collaboration, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail support, remote access, IM, and presence.

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

• Conversations: Thread management is made easy by Microsoft Outlook for Mac's automatic ability to arrange related messages into a single message collection.
• File Attachment Preview: Quick Look enables you to preview file attachments from within a message without requiring you to open the attachments from their appropriate software programs.
• Unified Folders: Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011 now puts your email, drafts, sent mail and erased messages for all of your mailboxes in consolidated folders so you no longer have to look through individual email accounts and folders.
• Import Windows PST Files: Migration from Windows email is simplified by the ability to import Windows PST files to Outlook for Mac 2011 without the need for third-party software.
• Filter by Category: You can quickly view critical calendar items and contacts based on categories you define.
• Overlay Calendar View: Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 can superimpose shared calendars so you can quickly detect conflicts.
• Calendar Preview: A schedule snapshot displayed in a meeting invitation enables you to detect scheduling conflicts or check adjacent meetings instantly.
• Reply with Meeting: You can launch a conference invitation in a one-click reply to an email message.
• 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 launch Instant Messaging, a video conference, or a voice call without leaving Office Outlook for Mac 2011.
• Contacts Search: You can instantly search through your contact database from any view in Microsoft Outlook for Mac.
• Information Rights Management (IRM): With the volume-license version of Outlook for Mac 2011 and a Rights Management server running with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, you can provide enterprise-level security for sensitive messages.
• Offline Address Books: New support for offline address books gives mobile users continual access to vital contact information.
• Voice Mail Preview: When used with Exchange Server 2010, Office Outlook for Mac 2011 can convert voice messages into text messages and add them to your inbox to save time during the process of reviewing voice messages.

Support Services for Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac
Entourage 2008 for Mac was designed as an information manager that helps users to manage messages, contacts, calendars, notes, and tasks. Thanks to the Exchange support incorporated into Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, you can work more productively in an Exchange-based email environment and collaborate with associates who run Outlook as their email client software.

Features of Entourage 2008 for Mac include:

• Centralize Personal Information: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac allows you to organize your e-mail, contacts, calendar, notes, and task information in a single convenient location.
• Exchange Integration: Users can operate seamlessly in a Microsoft Exchange Server system because Entourage 2008 for Mac uses the Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning standard. You can transmit and receive messages, search the Exchange global address list, import addresses, synchronize your schedule, and invite people to meetings through your Exchange account.
• Address Book Synchronization: You can sync your contacts with your Exchange personal address book, providing complete access to your address list online or offline.
• Directory Service: You can immediately find addresses by searching Exchange's global address list.
• Support for Multiple Accounts: Microsoft Entourage 2008 permits you to establish unlimited accounts which can include IMAP, POP, and MSN Hotmail type accounts. This enables you to manage all your email accounts with a single easy-to-use program.
• Schedule Synchronization: You can keep your Entourage 2008 for Mac Calendar in sync with Exchange server so you can stay up to date with your schedule whether you are online or working offline.
• Message Grouping: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac allows you to group, read, and look for messages according to project, sender, date, or other criteria.
• Efficient Archiving: Entourage 2008 for Mac enables users to export personal records including e-mail messages, addresses, or schedules to an Entourage 2008 archive package to keep your personal database clean and secure.
• Word Compatibility: You can email Microsoft Word documents directly as the body of messages.

Comprehensive Support Services for Exchange Server in a Cross-platform Network
For multi-platform systems that do not utilize Outlook for Mac but which include Exchange Server plus a mix of Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux/UNIX, or other common platforms, Progent's consultants can help to integrate email clients within a seamless solution that optimizes the ability to cooperate and share data. Progent can clarify the benefits and limitations of utilizing Microsoft Outlook Web as a messaging client for non-Windows systems and can assist you to incorporate a variety of email clients into your environment.

Progent also offers an array of Exchange Server consulting services to assist you to enhance email security, Exchange availability, remote and wireless Exchange access, email manageability, and Exchange backup and recovery processes. Progent's Exchange Server upgrade support services simplify and expedite the task of moving from an outdated messaging platform or an earlier version of Exchange Server to a current version. Progent also offers Exchange hosting support to lower the cost, streamline the management, and improve the availability of your Exchange Server. To learn additional information about Progent's technical services for Exchange, see Exchange Server Help.

Contact Progent to Integrate Apple macOS and OS X Clients and Exchange Server
If you are looking for a macOS or OS X expert, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

Progent's Support for UNIX-family Systems
Progent's UNIX support experts provide small companies and developers assistance with administering and servicing UNIX/Linux/Mac-based systems that can operate alongside Microsoft-based environments. Progent provides your organization access to UNIX technical professionals, authorized Microsoft engineers, Cisco-certified CCIEs, and security experts accredited by CISSP and CISM. This broad array of expertise offers you a readily available one-stop source to help your business to build and maintain a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications solution that combines Microsoft Windows with popular variants of UNIX such as: Apple macOS and OS X , Sun Solaris, IBM AIX OS, HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux distributions such as RedHat, SUSE, Debian-GNU and CentOS, Ubuntu, Mandriva Linux, PCLOS, fedora Linux, and Gentoo Linux.