RE: [WinMac] Re: Mac Outlook 8.1 Client Install Problems

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:09:26 -0500

My thoughts on "Outlook For Macintosh, Exchange Server Edition" service
pack 2 client are:

It is much more stable than the service pack 1 version.
It plays nicer with ATM, esp. after upgrading to ATM 4.03, but still wants
things like the Tahoma font in the system folder.
TCP connectivity is much better in service pack 2 client.

That being said, it is still somewhat slow, and I don't really prefer or
recommend it to anyone. It has many shortcomings, for instance our Faxcom
system sends users faxes as email attachments. PC users can simply
double-click the attachment to launch the viewer, but Mac users must open
the faxes from within the faxcom viewer (after downloading the attachment to
their hard drive) to view them.

I would switch our Mac users over to Eudora Lite or something similar, but
have experienced trouble getting non-Outlook clients to connect with our
Exchange server. Essentially they just accept that their email isn't as
good as their counterparts with PCs; those lucky users with 2 machines tend
to use their $3K WinNT box solely for email and the Mac for everything else.

ian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Sellers [mailto:JasonDS@extremezone.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 12:15 PM
>To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Re: Mac Outlook 8.1 Client Install Problems
>
>
>Kinda hard to argue with Outlook/Exchange server's address
>book when you're
>in an organization with 50,000 users and it instantly displays
>stuff like
>phone numbers, locations, addresses, etc. etc. etc. (I still
>use Eudora
>occasionally though! ;-)
>
>Jason Sellers
>
>
>At 10:38 AM 2/3/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>For private use I prefer and use Eudora. However, it can
>neither access our
>>>corporate address books nor allow the use of the calendar
>features included
>>>in MS Exchange/Outlook.
>>
>>I ignore the corporate address books and use Emailer on my
>Mac. I refuse
>>to use Win95 if I can help it. Everybody says I'm nuts, but
>I'm the only
>>one in my earshot who doesn't have constant problems with
>email. I guess
>>Emailer isn't quite as good as Eudora, but it's infinitely
>better than
>>anything else I have seen. Especially for dealing with attachments. I
>>would rather deal with the pain of making my own address book
>than use
>>crappy programs.
>>
>>Jeff T
>>thorstadj@macconnect.com
>>
>>
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