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Mac users who need an Exchange-compatible mail client from Microsoft have relied on Entourage or Microsoft Web Access. Following the introduction of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft has replaced the Entourage client with Outlook for Mac 2011. Progent's Mac technology experts and Microsoft-certified Exchange engineers can assist you to maintain an older Entourage system, plan and carry out a smooth upgrade to Microsoft's latest platform, and enhance your Exchange Server deployment to optimize the speed, availability, protection, collaborative capability, and overall business value of your email, messaging, and conferencing solution.

Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac, part of Office 365 for Mac, replaces Microsoft Entourage and has been re-architected to deliver significant improvements in the areas of email creation and management, calendar management, backup and restore, search, Windows coexistence, collaboration, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail, mobility, Instant Messaging, and presence. The Office Outlook for Mac database for email messages, contact information, and calendars is now stored in separate text files, making them simpler to control. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is also directly Spotlight searchable and capable of being copied and restored via Time Machine. Configuring accounts has been simplified so you can quickly add Exchange-based accounts or accounts from major services.

Progent's Mac integration experts and Microsoft premier consultants can help your company to migrate from the discontinued Entourage email client for Microsoft Exchange Server so your Mac users can team with workers who run Outlook client. Entourage allowed you ro utilize your Microsoft Exchange account to send and receive your email, search your Exchange global address list (GAL), sync up your calendar and contacts, and invite colleagues to meetings and events. Entourage was designed to support AppleScript and Apple's Spotlight search utility. Progent can assist you to configure a secure and reliable messaging solution that replaces Entourage for Mac with a current email client that can access your Exchange Server.

The majority of the extensive capabilities of Microsoft Exchange are accessible to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users via any advanced browser by utilizing the enhanced Outlook Web App (formerly called Outlook Web Access). Outlook Web App allows macOS, Mac OS X and Apple iOS users to access email, voice mail, IM, and SMS text via Safari and other popular web browsers. Powerful features of Outlook Web App include automatic conversation grouping for simplified thread management, expanded web browser support, MailTips to guard against dangerous or inappropriate email usage, an unlimited size one-page email message folder to eliminate the time and effort related to scrolling through messages page by page, a nickname buffer to streamline email addressing, enhanced filtering and search, shared calendars, new presence awareness indicators inside contact lists, client-based IM, ActiveSync integration for SMS text messages, and user-defined favorites filters (such as unread messages) for fast access to task-relevant data.

Progent's Office Outlook for Mac 2011 Consulting Expertise
Outlook for Mac is included with Microsoft Office365 for Mac and replaces Entourage. Microsoft Outlook for Mac has been re-architected to provide important improvements in major areas of unified messaging including email usability and control, scheduling, backup and restore, search, Windows coexistence, collaboration, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail management, remote access, instant messaging, and presence awareness.

Progent can help your company to integrate Microsoft Outlook for Mac into your email system so you can take advantage of its powerful new capabilities, including:

• Conversations: Managing threads is simplified due to Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011's automatic ability to arrange related emails into a single message collection.
• File Attachment Preview: The Quick Look feature enables you to read file attachments from inside an email without requiring you to open the attachments from their associated applications.
• Unified Folders: Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011 now places your email, draft messages, sent mail and deleted messages for all of your mailboxes into unified folders so you no longer have to look through separate email accounts and multiple folders.
• Import Windows PST Files: Moving from Windows email is simplified by the ability to import Windows PST files to Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 without requiring third-party software.
• Filter by Category: You can quickly retrieve critical calendar items and contacts according to the categories you specify.
• Overlay Calendar View: Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011 can superimpose shared calendars so you can immediately spot conflicts.
• Calendar Preview: A calendar snapshot shown in a meeting invitation enables you to detect scheduling conflicts or check adjacent events immediately.
• Reply with Meeting: You can generate a conference invitation in a one-click answer to an email message.
• Contact Card: Using Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 or Microsoft Communications Server with Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, you can view presence data in the new Contact Card and initiate Instant Messaging, a video conference, or a voice call without leaving Microsoft Outlook for Mac.
• Contacts Search Panel: You can instantly search through your contacts from any view in Outlook for Mac 2011.
• Information Rights Management: If you have the volume-license version of Outlook for Mac 2011 and a Rights Management server running with Windows Server 2008, you can provide enterprise-level protection for sensitive messages.
• Offline Address Books: Support for offline contact data gives users 24x7 access to contact data.
• Voice Mail Preview: When used with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac can convert voice messages to text messages and put them into your inbox to save time during the often tedious process of checking voice mail.

Support for Entourage 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Entourage 2008 was designed as an information manager that assists users to manage messages, contacts, calendars, notes, and projects. With the Exchange Server support built into Entourage 2008, users can work more efficiently in an Exchange-based email environment and collaborate with colleagues who use Microsoft Outlook as their messaging client.

Features of Microsoft Entourage 2008 include:

• Centralize Your Personal Data: Entourage 2008 allows you to organize your messages, contacts, calendar, notes, and task details in one convenient place.
• Exchange Integration: Users can work transparently in an Exchange Server environment because Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac uses the WebDAV standard. You can send and get email, search your Exchange global address list, import contacts, sync up your calendar, and invite associates to meetings with your Microsoft Exchange account.
• Address Book Synchronization: You can sync your contacts with your Exchange address book, providing full access to your contacts online or offline.
• Directory Search: You can quickly locate addresses by searching Exchange's global address list (GAL).
• Access to Multiple Accounts: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac allows you to establish multiple email accounts including IMAP, POP, and Hotmail accounts. This allows you to manage all your email accounts with a single easy-to-use program.
• Schedule Synchronization: You can keep your Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac Calendar synchronized with Exchange to stay up to date with your schedule whether you are online or working offline.
• Message Organization: Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac enables you to group, read, and search for messages according to project, sender, time, or other criteria.
• Efficient Archiving: Entourage 2008 for Mac allows users to export PIM data including messages, contacts, or schedules into an Entourage 2008 backup package to keep your personal database clean and secure.
• Word Compatibility: You can email Microsoft Word documents from Word as the content of e-mail messages.

Additional Support for Exchange Server in a Cross-platform Network
For cross-platform environments that do not use Outlook for Mac but which incorporate Exchange Server as well as a combination of Mac, Windows, Linux, or other popular operating systems, Progent's Exchange experts can assist to integrate email clients within a cohesive system that maximizes the ability to cooperate and exchange data. Progent can clarify the benefits and shortcomings of utilizing Microsoft Outlook Web App as a messaging client for non-Microsoft computers and can help your company to incorporate a mix of email clients into your environment.

Progent also provides a range of Exchange Server consulting services to help your company to enhance messaging security, Exchange availability, off-site and mobile email access, messaging system administration, and Exchange Server backup/restore procedures. Progent's Exchange Server migration support services simplify and de-risk the job of moving from a legacy messaging platform or an earlier release of Exchange to a current version. Progent also offers Exchange Server hosting support to lower the expense, streamline the management, and improve the fault tolerance of your Microsoft Exchange Server. For more information about Progent's consulting services for Exchange Server, refer to Microsoft Exchange Consultants.

Contact Progent to Integrate Apple macOS and OS X Clients and Microsoft Exchange Server
If you are in need of a macOS or OS X consultant, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

Progent's Help for UNIX-based Systems
Progent's UNIX support services provide small businesses and product developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX/Linux/Mac-based networks that may coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX technical experts, authorized Microsoft consultants, Cisco CCIEs, and security experts certified by CISM. This broad range of expertise gives you a convenient single resource to assist your business to create and maintain a safe and robust multi-vendor network and communications infrastructure that combines Microsoft Windows with leading derivatives of UNIX including: Apple macOS and OS X , Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO UNIX and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX) or major Linux distributions including RedHat Linux, SUSE Linux, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, Mandriva, PCLlinuxOS, fedora, and Gentoo.