RE: [WinMac] Outlook 97 for Mac

McCaffrey, Steven J(Steven.J.McCaffrey[at]USAHQ.UnitedSpaceAlliance.com)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:20:48 -0500

We've had very good results with Meeting Maker from ON Technology. It can
be run from a minimal Mac or PC server, and both client platforms work
great.
On a previous version of Exchange for the Mac, I've seen the
calendar/scheduler. However, it does not currently appear on my system on
either Exchange or Outlook. Reinstalling usually fixes the problem.

Steven J. McCaffrey
Network Systems Engineer
United Space Alliance
steven.j.mccaffrey@usahq.unitedspacealliance.com
(281)280-2062 - voice
(281)280-7327 - fax

> ----------
> From: Pierce, Ian
> Reply To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 1998 8:50 AM
> To: 'The Windows-MacOS cooperation list'
> Subject: RE: [WinMac] Outlook 97 for Mac
>
> >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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