macOS and Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Expertise
Integration and Troubleshooting for macOS, Mac OS X and Apple iOS:
Outlook Mac and Entourage Integration with Exchange Server
Mac users who want an Exchange-compatible email client from Microsoft have historically relied on Entourage or Microsoft Web Access. With the release of Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft has replaced the Entourage client with Outlook for Mac 2011. Progent's macOS and Mac OS X technology experts and Microsoft-certified Exchange consultants can help you maintain your legacy email environment, plan and carry out a smooth migration to Microsoft's latest technology, and enhance your Exchange infrastructure to optimize the performance, availability, security, productivity, collaborative capability, and overall business value of your company-wide email, messaging, and conferencing solution.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac, available in Office 365 for Mac, takes the place of Entourage and offers major improvements over its predecessor in the areas of user interface, calendaring, backup/recovery, search, integration with Windows, collaborative computing, performance, conferencing, voice mail, mobile access, IM and presence. The Outlook database has been redesigned to save email, contacts, and calendars in their own files. This simplifies file management, allows email files to be searched directly in Spotlight, and allows you to use Time Machine for backup and recovery. Account setup has been simplified by making it easy to add accounts based on Exchange or on leading email services. Outlook's unified folders eliminate the need to examine separate email accounts and folders for email, drafts, sent items, deleted items.
Progent's macOS and OS X integration specialists and Microsoft certified support experts can help your company to upgrade from the discontinued Entourage email client for Microsoft Exchange so your Mac users can collaborate with colleagues who run Outlook client. Microsoft Entourage allowed you to 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. Progent can help you configure a secure and reliable information network that replaces Entourage for Mac with an up-to-date email client that can access your Exchange Server.
Most of the extensive capabilities of Microsoft Exchange are available to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users via any full-featured web browser by utilizing the significantly enhanced Outlook Web App (previously called Outlook Web Access). Outlook Web App allows macOS, Mac OS X and Apple iOS users to access e-mail, voice mail, IM, and SMS text via Apple Safari and other popular web browsers. Powerful features of Outlook Web App include conversation grouping for enhanced thread control, extended browser support, MailTips to help avoid disruptive or inappropriate email usage, an unlimited size single-page message folder to eliminate the guesswork and delays associated with manually advancing pages, a nickname cache to streamline email addressing, advanced filtering and search, calendar sharing, new presence indicators within contact lists, client-based IM, ActiveSync support for SMS text messages, and user-defined favorites filters (such as unread messages) for fast retrieval of task-relevant information.
Progent's Outlook for Mac Consulting Services
Outlook for Mac is included with Microsoft Office 365 for Mac and replaces Entourage. Outlook for Mac has been redesigned to offer significant improvements in all key areas of unified messaging including email creation and management, calendaring, backup and restore, search, Windows coexistence, collaboration, speed, voice mail support, mobility, IM, and presence.
Progent can help you integrate Microsoft Outlook for Mac into your messaging environment so you can benefit from its powerful new features, including:
- Conversations: Thread management is simplified by Outlook for Mac's ability to organize related emails into a single message group.
- File Attachment Preview: Quick Look allows you to preview file attachments from within an email message without requiring you to open the attachments in their associated application.
- Unified Folders: You can easily manage multiple email accounts because of Outlook's ability to combine inbox, draft, sent, and deleted items folders for all your mailboxes into unified folders.
- Import Windows PST Files: Migration from Windows is streamlined by the ability to import Windows PST files directly to Outlook for Mac.
- Filter by Category: You can quickly view relevant calendar items and contacts based on categories you specify.
- Overlay Calendar View: Multiple and shared calendars can be automatically consolidated and stacked to make it easy to compare schedules.
- Calendar Preview: A calendar snapshot shown in a meeting invitation lets you instantly detect conflicts or spot adjacent items.
- Reply with Meeting: You can generate a meeting invitation in a one-click reply to an email.
- Contact Card: With Microsoft Messenger for Mac or Microsoft Communicator for Mac you can view real-time presence and initiate a video or voice call or IM by hovering on a presence icon to display the new contact card.
- Contacts Search Panel: You can instantly search your contacts from any Outlook view.
- Information Rights Management (IRM): With the volume-license edition of Office for Mac and a Rights Management server running Windows Server, you can provide enterprise-class protection for sensitive emails.
- Offline Address Books: You can access contact information even when you are not connected to the Internet.
- Voice Mail Preview: When integrated with Exchange Server, Outlook for Mac can deliver to your inbox audio files of voice mail messages plus voice-to-text previews for easy management of voice mail.
Progent's Support Services for Entourage
Entourage for Mac was designed as an information manager that assists users to manage email messages, contacts, calendars, notes, and projects. With the Exchange Server support built into Microsoft Entourage 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 for Mac include:
- Consolidate Personal Data: Entourage 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 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 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 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 for Mac enables you to group, read, and search for messages according to project, sender, date, or other fields.
- Easy Archiving: Microsoft Entourage allows you to export PIM data such as messages, addresses, or calendars into an Entourage 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.
For multi-platform environments that do not use Outlook for Mac or Entourage but which include Microsoft Exchange plus a mix of Mac, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or other popular operating systems, Progent's Exchange experts can help integrate email clients within a seamless solution that maximizes the ability to collaborate and share data. Progent can explain the benefits and limitations of using Microsoft Outlook Web App 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 2016. To find out additional information about Progent's professional services for Exchange, refer to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 integration, and Microsoft Exchange 2016 planning and deployment consulting.
Contact Progent to Integrate Mac Clients and Exchange Server
If your organization is looking for an Apple macOS or OS X expert, phone Progent at
An index of content::
macOS Phone-based Consulting
Computer Support Firms Mac
Progent provides nationwide remote help and consulting services for companies who operate Apple Mac networks or whose information systems include a combination of Apple macOS and Mac OS X with Microsoft Windows technology. Progent's experts can provide Mac users a range of IT services such as desktop support, migration to the latest version of OS X from legacy editions of macOS and Mac OS X, plus help with macOS and Mac OS X applications. Progent's specialists in Apple technology can also help you with iPhone and Apple iPad synchronization and troubleshooting, or migrating to iCloud services. Online technical support provides maximum return for your information technology dollar by protecting client efficiency and limiting the hours billed for computer analysis and repair. Sophisticated online access tools and experienced technicians and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve most network problems without squandering time and expense by going to your location. In most of cases your network issues can be dealt with over the phone or through a mix of phone help and remote connectivity. Progent can offer the services of Cisco certified CCIE infrastructure engineers and CISM certified security specialists to assist with the most challenging network problems.
Emergency Palo Alto Networks WildFire Security Firms
Palo Alto Networks Panorama Information systems Security Outsourcing
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall consultants can show you how to choose, configure, and manage Palo Alto Networks firewalls to create a next-generation cybersecurity solution that spans your data center and cloud resources and guards all users at any location with any endpoint device.
Consultant Services WannaCry ransomware recovery
Open Now ransomware virus recovery Consultant Services
Progent's proven ransomware recovery experts can assist you to rebuild an IT network breached by a ransomware attack like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Snatch or Egregor.
Consulting Services Microsoft Dynamics GP Upgrade
Dynamics GP Update Planning Consult
Progent has delivered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains software for more than two decades and Progent has provided integration, customization, education, and debugging since the product's debut. Progent can provide advanced expertise for upgrading legacy Dynamics GP/Great Plains ERP systems. Progent can help you to plan, pilot, and implement an efficient migration from a an outdated version of GP to the latest release of Dynamics GP.
Help and Support ISA 2004
Internet Security and Acceleration Server Professionals
Progent's certified TMG 2010 and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can assist you to design, deploy, and support an implementation of Forefront Threat Management Server 2010 or ISA Server 2006 on your network that provides the firewall security, speed and manageability that your company requires.
Online Help Dynamics GP/Great Plains Features
Microsoft Dynamics GP Troubleshooting
Progent can show you how to plan and implement a smooth move to Dynamics GP/Great Plains so that you retain your data, improve your security, modernize your management reporting, take full advantage of Microsoft Office integration, and reduce business interruption by designing and executing a sensible migration plan. Progent can also help train new Dynamics GP/Great Plains 2010 users so you don't waste productivity. Progent can improve your financial reports and management analytics by offering Crystal Reports consulting, FRx programming, and Excel support. Progent's experience with Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft SQL Server solutions, and designing with VBasic, XML and other platforms make it possible to create custom line-of-business software and eCommerce programs that work transparently with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010/Great Plains 2010.
IT Services Offsite Workers Security
Offsite Workers Endpoint Security Computer Engineer
Progent can help small and mid-size organizations to set up endpoint device security defense systems and deliver response expertise for remote workers.
Infor SyteLine CloudSuite Document Management Engineer
Infor SyteLine CloudSuite Shop Floor Control Professional
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously known as SyteLine, is an ERP platform that embodies more than a quarter century of experience assisting manufacturing and distribution organizations to manage complicated supply chains and improve the efficiency of key processes in order to get products to market quickly and meet customer commitments consistently. Progent offers the skills of an ERP consultant with over two decades of experience with the Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine product family. Progent can provide online or on-premises services that spans from as-needed advice to solution planning and project management. Sample services offered by Progent for CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine include installation, upgrades, process improvement, application development, Configure/Price/ Quote, web site integration, troubleshooting, data conversion, Microsoft 365 integration, disaster recovery planning, and database administration.
24/7 Proxim Wireless Case Studies
Proxim Tsunami Wireless Example Application
Progent provided a wireless integration environment that enabled a school to improve productivity and avoid the recurring costs of a dedicated data connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The economical building-to-building Proxim bridge is intended for interfacing remote locations as far as 2.5 miles apart and can reach even longer ranges. This wireless alternative provided better bandwidth and reliability than simply amplifying the 802.11b wireless connection, and because it utilizes the 5.8Ghz spectrum it provided protection against outside interference.
Microsoft 365 Portal Online Technical Support
Specialists Exchange admin center
Microsoft allows you to create seamless hybrid environments that combine Microsoft 365 and local Exchange deployments. This allows you to have certain mailboxes located at your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can assist you with any phase of planning, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can provide as-needed expertise to help you resolve stubborn technical bottlenecks and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to ensure your hybrid Exchange solution is carried out on time and within budget.
Network Health Evaluation Services
Network Health Review Consultant Services
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and low-cost way for small and medium-size organizations to get an unbiased evaluation of the health of their network. Powered by a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified group of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the deployment of your core network devices adhere to leading practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits like a cleaner and safer Active Directory environment. Both versions also provide the long-term benefits of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management (RMM) technology. These benefits can include lower-cost management, better compliance with data security requirements, higher utilization of IT assets, quicker troubleshooting, more dependable backup and restore, and less downtime.
Online Consulting IT Services for Network Service Providers
Support Outsourcing Expertise for IT Service Firms
Progent's Support for IT Service Providers lets you use Progent's consulting experts while retaining your own brand as a transparent arm of your IT services staff.
Integration Remote Employees Helpdesk
Telecommuter Helpdesk Services Remote Troubleshooting
Progent can provide small and medium-size businesses supplemental or fully outsourced Help Desk services for an offsite workforce.
Select Topic: