Missing Functionality?

[Diarmuid]

These might be there - just hidden in the large user manual ;-)

1) In Outlook I can set up an out of office assistant. I travel a
great deal and need to let colleagues when I'm or out.

2) As there is no SecuRemote client for X, Outlook supports the direct
dialing to an exchange server, when mail can be send/ received

3) Importing .pst files. I have mail (live and archived) in 1.5Gb of
..pst files (6 files). Although infrequent, I need to access these
files

Without these features, I can't move from Outlook 2001 under classic -
which supports all these and many more features missing from Entourage
10.4

Diarmuid

 

[Al]

When you are out traveling, do you ever get double-
booked? We are seeing that a meeting doesn't show up on a
calendar when someone is out of the office, until he/she
returns and opens Outlook. Please tell me that's not the
way it is supposed to work. If it's server based,
shouldn't the meeting show up immediately as
a "tentative"?

Al

 

[William M. Smith]

When you are out traveling, do you ever get double-
booked? We are seeing that a meeting doesn't show up on a
calendar when someone is out of the office, until he/she
returns and opens Outlook. Please tell me that's not the
way it is supposed to work. If it's server based,
shouldn't the meeting show up immediately as
a "tentative"?

Hi Al!

What you're describing makes sense.

Meetings must be accepted or declined (or can be ignored) by the recipient.
A meeting notice won't move onto a calendar until it is accepted. The
recipient must act on it first.

"Tentative" is a response from the user having acted upon the meeting
notice, not an "automatic maybe".

The Mac client can auto-accept or auto-decline meetings based on whether or
not his calendar will fit the schedule, but only when the Outlook client is
opened. I'm not familiar enough with Outlook for Windows to know if it acts
differently.

Hope this helps! bill