RE: [WinMac] Outlook 97 for Mac

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:50:23 -0400

>So let me get this straight, there is an Outlook client for
>the Mac that
>has DOES have calendar, contact and such. BUT the catch is you
>MUST use
>the MS Exchange server. Is this right?

That's what is advertised, but I have never seen it work.

We need a cross
>platform calendar
>soluntion for my company. We had ruled out Outlook cause it
>didn't have
>calendar for the Mac. But you're saying it does, IF you use
>the Exchange
>server?

When I go to a Mac, and try to look at one of many calendars we have set up
for our organization, the Calendar does not display like it should. Instead
of a daily/weekly/monthly view, the calendar appears as an in-box with all
the scheduled events showing up as mail. Now, it IS possible to use this,
but I hardly consider it satisfactory since you can't tell at a glance when
your meetings are, what your day's schedule it, etc

We have exchange server 5.5 SP1, and the Mac is running Mac Outlook for
exchange 5.5 SP1 -- in other words this is all the latest and greatest
software and it is not working.

 Does anyone know of any other truly cross platform calendar
>solutions? We wanted to use Eudora Planner, but they are so
>far behind on
>getting the Mac version out it's ridiculous and my boss said
>forget it,
>find something else. Can anyone help?

I have not worried too much about this problem since we only have 5 macs and
users are always notified of meetings via regular email, but for what it's
worth Netscape's beta of Communicator 4.5 is supposed to support "enterprise
calendaring"
http://home.netscape.com/download/prev.html

At my last 2 jobs they used a piece of software called MeetingMaker XP,
which is a dedicated server-based system for scheduling meeting in
conference rooms and the like. It was truly cross-platform though the
interface on the mac was completely different than on the PC, so you had to
learn how to use it twice, but it DID WORK. Now that i see their website,
they have a new version of the SW out so maybe the ugly mac interface has
been updated...

http://www.on.com

ian

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