Earlier this week, we launched Entourage 2008 for all mail2web.com Business Exchange Professional users. For those Mac users who are currently using Entourage 2004, now is the time to upgrade! The Entourage 2008 package can be downloaded from the mail2web.com Control Panel in the End User Management area, or through the OWA by clicking on Email Settings.

For those of you choosing to go ahead with Entourage 2008, we’d like to let you know that there is already an upgrade for Office 2008. Once you have finished installing Entourage 2008, we highly recommend that you install the upgrade. It is available directly from Microsoft. We also recommend running the Microsoft AutoUpdate and the Mac AutoUpdate periodically to keep all of your software as up-to-date as possible.

Although Entourage 2008 includes a lot of updates and new features, some of the enhancements we expected for Exchange did not materialize. The Exchange Account configuration for Entourage 2008 is virtually identical to Entourage 2004, and does not include any direct MAPI support as is available in Outlook 2007. But that doesn’t mean that there are no new Exchange features… some of the new features include:

• Out of Office Assistant
• Free/Busy info Pull-up
• Delegate Rights Management
• Interoperability with Outlook 2007

 To read more about these features and many other updated features, we invite you to read Part I and Part II of the Entourage 2008 New features blog posts by Amir.

Thanks,

Tim Attwood
Product Manager
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.

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