RE: [WinMac] RE: NT e-mail access from Macs

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:20:52 -0500

>Sorry for not noticing the "client side solution" line before replying
>to your post.
>
>Chris is absolutely right, if you already have Exchange Server
>in the NT
>lab, the only thing you need to add is the Outlook (not outlook express
>though, but rather Outlook Exchange) in the Macs and you'll be able to
>share e-mails, folders, address books and schedules seamlessly.

I ask the list: Has ANYONE out there experienced the "seamless" sharing of
schedules between Mac and PC, or even the smooth operation of Outlook for
Macintosh?

Cesar, my experience is that Microsoft's Outlook for Macintosh, Exchange
Server Edition is a buggy program which my Mac users hate. The "schedule"
does not look like a calendar; it looks like an in-box full of emails, each
of which have to be clicked on and opened to get details like the date and
time of the meeting, and who's attending.

Sometimes, when trying to open an email, Mac users see a message which reads
"The item could not be displayed. You have exceeded the maximum amount of
text." This on a 2K message. Microsoft has a "fix" in their knowledge
base, article Q189930, which worked on one Mac and made outlook quit
unexpectedly with a type 3 error on another Mac.

(Also look at article Q179110 if you're serious about installing Outlook for
Mac. These are the sort of mystery problems you're up against.)

Somewhere in Microsoft's documentation that comes with Outlook for
Macintosh, they state that the function of the program is (paraphrasing
here) "to ease the transition from a multi-platform environment to a 32-bit
Windows environment." That pretty much sums up the usefulness of the
program for me--force this on your Mac users and you will see them flock to
PCs to get their email. A few of my users have both a Mac and PC on their
desks, with pretty much the same software. They use the PC for email and
web surfing and the Mac for Quark, Illustrator, PhotoShop, and everything
else.

To sum up: Outlook for Macintosh is lousy. Avoid it.

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