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Major Known differences from Mac Outlook (some are noted in other sections)
Uses DAV and LDAP, not MAPI
GAL
- No offline access (recently used items from gal will show up in MRU)
- Not browse-able can't scroll from A to Z
- Can't access all the GAL data that Outlook can
- Might not be able to access through front end
- In Outlook the GAL is queried through MAPI. Entourage only queries the LDAP server. That's why you need the Exchange server to bridge the GAL through LDAP to be able to access it. No LDAP enabled on Exchange, no GAL in Entourage.
- No mapping from subscribed public folders to public folder favorites
- No support for outlook forms, voting buttons, rtf, receipt tracking. Workaround: use Outlook
- No support for server side rules (including OOF). Workaround use OWA if you are on Exchange 2003, otherwise use Outlook
- No password expiration notification or ability to change password
- No task or note sync
- No .pst import. Workaround: move to server then to Entourage,
Features added in Office 2004 Service Pack 2:
- Support for multiple calendar or contacts folders. This applies to Delegation and Public Folders as well as the main account.
- Support for setting permissions
- Support for disabling Entourage UI based on permissions
- Support for quota management
Resource booking - posted on the Entourage Blog
"As the Entourage team has been working hard to roll Exchange connectivity into Entourage, we've developed a long list of features Outlook users have come to expect from their Exchange client.
One of those features is Resource Booking--the ability to create a meeting invitation, specify a recipient as a resource (typically a conference room or some form of audio/visual equipment), and, prior to sending the meeting invitation, confirm that the resource is available for the meeting and reserve the resource if it is available.
Entourage 2004 does not quite play nicely as a client trying to book resources. Entourage has no concept of resources in booking meetings and is therefore unable to confirm the availability of a resource prior to sending out a meeting invitation. While this is unfortunate, there is a solution for Exchange administrators to workaround this problem, the Exchange 2003: Auto Accept Agent.
The Auto Accept Agent enables an Exchange server to check incoming meeting invitations for mailboxes designated as resources and, based on their availability at the requested time, accept or deny the meeting invitation. We recently began using the tool within Microsoft and the process of booking conference rooms to discuss all our work going into the next version of Mac Office has been greatly eased."