Entourage Gains Task, Note, Category Synching with Microsoft Exchange

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Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit is starting 2009 with a bang! The team addresses one of the glaring gaps in Microsoft Entourage, which is the mail client they offer to Mac OS X users. They’ve moved away from the WebDAV protocol with the public beta of Entourage for Exchange Web Services. Whether you know what WebDAV means or not, it’s likely more important to understand what the new client offers over the old ones.

Entourage will now synchronize Tasks, Notes and Categories with your Exchange Server; something Mac users have desired for years. The new beta mail client also resolves e-mail or invitation names in the Global Address Book without the requirement of being connected over VPN. Although I’ve moved away from my Exchange Server account and on to Gmail IMAP solutions for work and personal mail, this is exactly the type of support that makes Entourage more useful to mobile users. It was frustrating for me to miss out on Tasks or Categories with my Exchange Server. I never was much of a Notes guy though; that probably doesn’t surprise you since I don’t use an online Notebook either.

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