Entourage & Exchange

wrote:

> Will Entourage 2008 be able to forward gif files and not lose their
> animation?

You can forward gif files you receive only if you use the Forward as
Attachment command and not the Forward command. "Forward" will only send
a still image of any animated gif.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this behavior
changed in future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism
in any Office application.

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/>
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On Jan 19, 10:49 pm, William Smith <meckli....RemoveThis@REM0VETH1S.comcast.net>
wrote:
>   wrote:
> > Will Entourage 2008 be able to forward gif files and not lose their
> > animation?
>
> You can forward gif files you receive only if you use the Forward as
> Attachment command and not the Forward command. "Forward" will only send
> a still image of any animated gif.


My glasses must need replacement because I can not seem to find
"Forward as Attachment" anywhere in the menu bar drop downs or in the
preferences of Entourage X.

>
> Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this behavior
> changed in future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism
> in any Office application.
>
> 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/>
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Hi,

the Home & Student edition of Office 2008 does not contain Exchange
support; you'll need either the Standard or Special Media editions for
this. It is of course a shame that you can't return the product anymore,
but in all fairness, this limitation has been published by many
different sources, not to mention by Microsoft itself.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

victor wrote:
> I "upgraded" from 2004 Student to 2008 Student, only to find I am now
> shut off from my email at school. To my apparently unsophisticated mind,
> "Microsoft Exchange Server Support" did not imply a client-side
> limitation that would be a back-step in functionality. Now, I can't even
> return the software, because it has been opened, so I am stuck..
> stuck... stuck. The "Terms of Use" prevent me from speaking freely here,
> but I can definitely say that I think Microsoft has done a bad thing here.
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See here:

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/calendar_synching_between_entourage_and_ical.html>

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***

Gage wrote:
> When I try to sync everything, Entourage takes my contacts but wont take
> the info from my iCal calendars. Why
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Linotype wrote:
>
> My glasses must need replacement because I can not seem to find
> "Forward as Attachment" anywhere in the menu bar drop downs or in the
> preferences of Entourage X.

Not at all. You asked for Office *2008*, where this option is available
in Entourage's Message menu. It was first introduced in Entourage 2004,
but was never part of Entourage v.X. In that version, you can drag the
e-mail you'd like to forward in its entirety to the desktop and then
drag the resulting .eml file back into the attachment pane of a new mail
message window. That gives you the same result.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***
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On Jan 20, 3:11 pm, Barry Wainwright <ba....DeleteThis@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
> On 20/01/2008 15:38, in article #YWbTq3WIHA.1...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
>
> "Michel Bintener" <mbinte....DeleteThis@NOmvpsSPAM.org> wrote:
> > Linotype wrote:
>
> >> My glasses must need replacement because I can not seem to find
> >> "Forward as Attachment" anywhere in the menu bar drop downs or in the
> >> preferences of Entourage X.
>
> > Not at all. You asked for Office *2008*, where this option is available
> > in Entourage's Message menu. It was first introduced in Entourage 2004,
> > but was never part of Entourage v.X. In that version, you can drag the
> > e-mail you'd like to forward in its entirety to the desktop and then
> > drag the resulting .eml file back into the attachment pane of a new mail
> > message window. That gives you the same result.
>
> No need to go through the desktop - you could drag out of a folder listing
> into the attachments pane of a new draft message window.
>
> --
> Barry Wainwright
> Microsoft MVP (see <http://www.microsoft.com/mvp/> for details)
> Visit the Entourage User¹s Weblog for Hints, tips and troubleshooting
> information:http://www.barryw.net/weblog/

thanks, I will give it a try.
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On 20/01/2008 15:38, in article #YWbTq3WIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
"Michel Bintener" <mbintener DeleteThis @NOmvpsSPAM.org> wrote:

> Linotype wrote:
>>
>> My glasses must need replacement because I can not seem to find
>> "Forward as Attachment" anywhere in the menu bar drop downs or in the
>> preferences of Entourage X.
>
> Not at all. You asked for Office *2008*, where this option is available
> in Entourage's Message menu. It was first introduced in Entourage 2004,
> but was never part of Entourage v.X. In that version, you can drag the
> e-mail you'd like to forward in its entirety to the desktop and then
> drag the resulting .eml file back into the attachment pane of a new mail
> message window. That gives you the same result.

No need to go through the desktop - you could drag out of a folder listing
into the attachments pane of a new draft message window.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see <http://www.microsoft.com/mvp/> for details)
Visit the Entourage User¹s Weblog for Hints, tips and troubleshooting
information:
http://www.barryw.net/weblog/
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Please complain to your school. If they use Exchange, they really had an
obligation to warn you not to buy it, since they apparently do not tell
you that you are using Exchange. (It seems you knew the program didn't
support Exchange before you bought it)

Also, since your school pays for Exchange, they ought to be able to
provide you with a client license for Entourage that will support
Exchange. I don't know exactly how the licensing works, but you need to
talk to the IT people at your school.

victor wrote:
> I "upgraded" from 2004 Student to 2008 Student, only to find I am now
> shut off from my email at school. To my apparently unsophisticated
> mind, "Microsoft Exchange Server Support" did not imply a client-side
> limitation that would be a back-step in functionality. Now, I can't
> even return the software, because it has been opened, so I am stuck..
> stuck... stuck. The "Terms of Use" prevent me from speaking freely
> here, but I can definitely say that I think Microsoft has done a bad
> thing here.
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Jon <> wrote:
> Adam Bailey wrote:
>> As long as the Exchange server is not ancient and supports Outlook Web
>> Access, which most do, it should work fine with Entourage. Many of the
>> so-called security reasons turn out to be misunderstandings of how
>> Exchange (and security) works and general laziness by IT folks.
>
> That's as may be, but as far as I can tell (three different IT shops) if
> people have to do *anything* different to support the Mac, the response
> will be to "buy a PC" or "use parallels." I'm trying to get Entourage 2008
> working with a hosted exchange company (liveoffice.com) and after hours of
> trying various combinations of user/domain/url have started getting
> "resource forbidden" messages. Those guys won't even take a support call
> about a mac issue, and neither will our internal IT who picked them as our
> vendor. Is it really that hard to have the same protocols?

The rest of the (Exchange) world is moving to OWA/WebDAV. If you've managed
to find a vendor who has disabled Exchange's native support for those
protocols, you may be out of luck. But MAPI in Entourage isn't going to
happen.

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It is inexcuseable that Microsoft has decided to remove the exchange support in the Home and Student version of Office 2008. <br><br>How do we fix this? <br><br>Go to Help: Provide Feedback. This feeback goes directly to the developers. We need to create a lot of feedback and provide some logic for Microsoft to create an update and add the exchange support. Students shouldn't have to be 150 more dollars for one minor thing. And the whole concept of a student version is to provide the same software at a cheaper price. <br><br>SEND FEEDBACK-Hopefully we will be listened to.
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In article <ee7c539.38.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Brian <> wrote:

> It is inexcuseable that Microsoft has decided to remove the exchange support
> in the Home and Student version of Office 2008. <br><br>How do we fix this?
> <br><br>Go to Help: Provide Feedback. This feeback goes directly to the
> developers. We need to create a lot of feedback and provide some logic for
> Microsoft to create an update and add the exchange support. Students
> shouldn't have to be 150 more dollars for one minor thing. And the whole
> concept of a student version is to provide the same software at a cheaper
> price. <br><br>SEND FEEDBACK-Hopefully we will be listened to.

By all means send feedback, but if you're in a school environment that
uses Exchange, a cheaper alternative (in the past, at least, I haven't
seen anything on Office 2008) is a volume client license provided
through your institution. Of course, that means your school has to be
willing to support Macs.

There may be good marketing reasons why students should get cheaper
prices (i.e., to hook you on the product so you're more likely to buy a
full version after graduation), but there's no *inherent* reason why
simply having a student status makes one especially deserving of a price
break.

And Exchange services are hardly "one minor thing"...
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Jon wrote:

> That's as may be, but as far as I can tell (three different IT shops) if
> people have to do *anything* different to support the Mac, the response
> will be to "buy a PC" or "use parallels." I'm trying to get Entourage
> 2008 working with a hosted exchange company (liveoffice.com) and after
> hours of trying various combinations of user/domain/url have started
> getting "resource forbidden" messages. Those guys won't even take a
> support call about a mac issue, and neither will our internal IT who
> picked them as our vendor. Is it really that hard to have the same
> protocols? IMAP works great, but the whole point here is for the calendar.

I can't resolve your issue but thought I'd add my viewpoint.

Adam has touched on the problem which is your IT department and those
they hire are Windows-centric. Windows does not have a track record of
being compatible with anything else other than itself.

Entourage and a lot of network applications on the Mac platform are
based on standards outside of Microsoft's proprietary ways of doing
things. These are open standards that belong to no one whereas Microsoft
owns MAPI. Sure, MAPI works great just like Office for Windows runs
great on Windows running on an NTFS formatted hard drive. Microsoft owns
all of those technologies. But they don't freely share them with anyone
else.

The MacBU (yes, part of Microsoft but not Windows-centric) made a good
decision to use standards in developing Entourage rather than creating
another proprietary protocol application. The Mac OS X platform is not a
platform for promoting propriety. It has embraced open standards and the
MacBU has simply followed the Macintosh way rather than the Microsoft
way. Good for them. I applaud that.

I'm in Mac technical support myself, so believe me when I say I do feel
your pain. But if I were going to blame anyone it would be those that
think like Microsoft.

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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Just got a message back from our hosted provider (liveoffice.com) which claims that Apple/Entourage cannot be made to work with any Exchange install over the web. (Apparently because "Apple does not support https" which I hope is a gross over-simplification of something true rather than just a lie.) <br><br>Anyway, I guess this is another "wait and see" situation since it's being worked on.
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