Replacing Exchange Public Folder Functionality with Google Apps

One of the problems with ditching Exchange and moving to Google Apps has been the lack of public folder functionality. Public folders are those folders that your Exchange admin would set up where they could give multiple users the right to view content and other users the rights to add and edit content. They are …

Use Google and Exchange Calendars in the Same Domain

I can hear you asking already, "Why would you want to do that?" Well, the problem is if you use shared calendaring and you want to migrate your organization off of Exchange on to Google Apps, everyone has to get moved over to Google Apps at the same time, and in one weekend. Not too …

Hear from the Readers – How Do You Do Mac Calendaring

With the recent non-event of the release of Entourage 2008, we haven't seen much of an improvement in the Mac calendar landscape. Apple has released the iCal Server as part of Leopard Server. But Outlook doesn't work with the iCalendar standard. So I'd like to hear from all of you Mac users that work in …

Exchange Support Coming to the iPhone?

User cash7c3 over on modmyifone noticed this very interesting job posting on Apple's website: Requisition Number 3161520 Job title iPhone Windows Outlook/Exchange QA Eng Location Santa Clara Valley Country United States City Cupertino State/Province California Job type Full Time Job description The iPhone Quality team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with …

Google Apps – a Viable Replacement for Exchange?

Google Apps is a collection of online services from Google aimed at small to medium enterprises. Google Apps consist of GMail (which includes spam filtering), GoogleTalk, Google Calendar for communication, Google Docs, Start Page and Page Creator for collaboration and a control panel, access to APIs as well as 24/7 support for managing your Google …

Entourage 2008 – Still a Second-Class Exchange Citizen?

Microsoft has posted a sneak peek site for Office 2008. After viewing the movies I can say that I am underwhelmed. Office 2008 on the Mac looks more mac-like. There is extensive use of templates. Graphics become easier to work with. The new Office 2008 interface reminds me in many ways of the iWeb interface. …

Still No iCal-Exchange Sync

Occasionally I revisit my quest to have my Exchange calendar accessible on my Mac. This past week was one of those times. I spent a lot of time with Google looking for any decent solution. No Luck. I revisited GroupCal. I downloaded the latest version, and in the process of installing went through all the …

Further Experiences with GroupCal

After about 8 hours of messing around with GroupCal, I can say one thing is certain, make sure that you have a good backup of your Exchange calendar and your iCal calendar.After an email to technical support, I found out that I could manage my tasks the way that I wanted to - categories in …

Exchange Tasks – Done! (Well almost)

As with anything, if its a good idea, in the Mac community someone is either working on it or its already done. Such is the case with syncing my tasks with Exchange and iCal. There is some great by a group called Snerdware. They have two products that are especially interesting, GroupCal and AddressX. GroupCal …

The Travails of Entourage Tasks and Exchange in a Dashboard Widget

OK, here's my complaint. I use a Mac. Well that's not really my complaint. My complaint is about how Microsoft doesn't play well with others. What else is new? I love using my Mac, even though I program for Windows. Of course my organization has Exchange as its collaboration server. As a manager I use …