Kerio Mail Server a solution to Entourage/Exchange sync mismatch?

[pendolino]

I decided to set this up as a separate topic since no one seemed to
address it directly here.

While doing some research on Entourage 2008 and the continued lack of
sync ability between its tasks feature and MS Exchange Server
(including 2007), I came upon a product called Kerio MailServer
(currently in v 6.5 at www.kerio.com). This product purports to fully
support all Exchange features in both MS Outlook and MS Entourage
FULLY (unless I missed something).

It also seems to be well designed and highly accessibly including a
slick looking web interface that I have heard is quite functional.

As an added bonus it also supports Blackberry, iPhone, iCal, Apple
Address Book and others from what I can recall.

If all the above is true and works well then it looks like a panacea
to the problems that people have been complaining about regarding lack
of sync capabilities between Entourage and Exchange.

I may be signing up for a test with one of their hosted service
providers to test the product and see how it works before making any
drastic changes to our team's existing system given that it works
quite well for Windows based users.

I would like to hear any comments or feedback if you have them on this
product.

 

[William Smith]

While doing some research on Entourage 2008 and the continued lack of
sync ability between its tasks feature and MS Exchange Server
(including 2007), I came upon a product called Kerio MailServer
(currently in v 6.5 at www.kerio.com). This product purports to fully
support all Exchange features in both MS Outlook and MS Entourage
FULLY (unless I missed something).

I have never used Kerio and I know nothing about it. However, "fully"
for Outlook and "fully" for Entourage are different things.

Kerio can't sync what Entourage itself doesn't support. You should get
the same functionality that Entourage has with Exchange but you can't
get more.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[pendolino]

thanks. i think you were right and i overlooked some details.