#Outlook for mac 10.6 mac os x#

In the area of automating Exchange account setup, Mac OS X 10.6 falls over. What about when you want to say, set up 20, 50, 100, even 1,000 Macs to talk to Exchange, and you don’t want to do it manually? Those work great at home, for one or two people.

#Outlook for mac 10.6 manual#

So for ease of manual setup, Entourage wins just by having the account setup in one place, so less duplication of work is needed. In addition, if, for any reason, Outlook can’t make a good connection to the Exchange server, the setup wizard will not allow you to just enter the information manually.)

For one, you can’t even set up an Exchange account in Outlook you have to use the Mail control panel. (Minor point: Both products are far easier to deal with in a case like this than Outlook 2007. Do you want me to configure Address Book and iCal with this info as well?” Apple should have provided a function that did something along the lines of: “Hey, I see you’re manually setting up an Exchange account. Where Entourage only makes you enter the information once, with Mac OS X 10.6, when auto-discovery fails, you have to enter the Exchange account information separately into Mail, Address Book, and iCal-admittedly, not a hardship, but an annoyance that shouldn’t be there. In that case, Mac OS X 10.6’s separation of applications works against it. What happens when the auto-discovery doesn’t work like it’s supposed to? However, everything does well when everything works right. You point Mail or Entourage at your Exchange server, enter in some basic credential information and the account setup just happens. If the auto-discovery built in to both products works right, setup is a snap. This is more of a comparison of Exchange feature set and support in each-nothing more. “Better” is too subjective a term to be anything more than a flashpoint for yet another round in the never-ending “Which E-mail Client Rules” war. Note: This is not going to be a “Which is the better client?” argument in the way most people like to do these things. Thanks to the generosity of a Twitter follower named Michael Curtis, I was able to get an account on an Exchange 2007 server that was set up to talk to both Entourage EWS and Mac OS X 10.6. So I set out to do a comparison of the Exchange support offered by Mac OS X 10.6 as compared to the current version of Microsoft Entourage 2008 Exchange Web Services, (EWS) edition. The reality of course, is a bit more complicated.

#Outlook for mac 10.6 for mac os x#

Many pundits have even gone so far as to say that with Mac OS X 10.6, you won’t need to deal with Exchange clients like Microsoft Entourage, or even the upcoming Outlook for Mac OS X ever again. With last month’s release of Mac OS X 10.6, much has been made about the potential impact of the included Exchange support in Snow Leopard.