RE: [WinMac] Mac Outlook Client to Exchange Calendar?

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:17:49 -0500

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Using Outlook 5.5 SP2 on the Mac, I posted a message to a Calendar we have
in the Public Folders. It was called "This is only a test." When I created
the message, it showed up on the Mac's representation of the calendar as a
note. There is no way to set the time, recurrence, etc., for meetings the
way you can from the PC.

Looking at the same calendar on my PC, I can't see the note. Doing a find
for anything called "test" yeilds nothing. My post from the Mac is
invisible to the PC.

So, if you were planning on sharing a calendar and having Mac and PC users
read the calendar and post to it, Exchange will not do this for you. That,
coupled with the fact that Mac users see the "calendar" as an inbox full of
Messages, makes the calendaring aspect of Outlook for Mac pretty much
useless. Go with MeetingMaker, or take a look at Netscape Commuincator's
calendaring abilities.

I hope you get this before you go to your training!

Ian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Neil Jedrzejewski [mailto:jed@grafx.co.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 3:43 AM
>To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac Outlook Client to Exchange Calendar?
>
>
>> (Supposedly) with Oulook for Mac SP2, the Mac and PC can
>share a calendar
>> now, and see each other's appointments (given appropriate
>> permissions.) The
>> problem for Mac users is that the calendar doesn't LOOK like a
>> calendar, it
>> looks like Inbox.
>>
>> The appointments I when the Mac client looks at a calendar
>on our Exchange
>> server (in Public Folders) were all generated on PCs. I
>have NOT tried
>> posting events to these calendars from a Mac, though. Since
>it seems like
>> not too many folks out there run Outlook for Mac SP2 I could
>test this for
>> you if you like...
>>
>> Ian
>
>I'd appreciate it if you would look at this. I'm supposed to
>be going to a
>Microsoft Training seminar today on Exhange 5.5 and NT for the
>reason that
>our company is supposed to be installing Exhange an Outlook on
>our Mac's.
>
>My boss is going to go nuts if he can't share calendars! :o(
>
>- Jed
>
>
>
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