Joe Kissell wrote an article about how to make a smooth switch to Outlook from Entourage for Macworld. He also published a guide to Outlook keyboard shortcuts. They’re both pretty useful articles, although I have to admit that I’ve been using Outlook for so long that my muscle memory has been reprogrammed for changed keyboard shortcuts for ages.
I am surprised that he calls Outlook’s Scheduling Assistant a new feature. While the Entourage one wasn’t as easy on the eyes, nor as easy to use, as the Outlook one, it did exist. My colleague Amir wrote a blog post titled How does Entourage work? that includes a screenshot of the free/busy information that’s provided by the scheduling assistant in Entourage.
Joe’s list of Entourage features that you might miss includes NNTP support. Even though I’m an old-skool Usenet user myself, I can’t say that I preferred having it in Entourage to using a separate client. That said, my preferred Usenet newsreader is still tin, so I think it’s fair to say that my usage isn’t representative. Not that I’m sure that there’s really any representative Usenet usage left out there.
Just purchased Office for Mac 2011 Business (w/Outlook). How can I sync my Outlook Calendar and Contacts with MobileMe (and, therefore, with my iPhone)?!?
As a small business owner without the support of an IT Staff and an Exchange Server, I am constantly frustrated with how difficult it is to integrate my PDA and Computer… is there any solution other than creating my own Microsoft Exchange Server?
Your answer is here.
You don’t have to run your own Exchange server. There are plenty of hosted Exchange options available, such as the Business Productivity Online Suite. I don’t have any experience with any of them, so I only offer the links without comment. If you do find that a hosted Exchange solution is to your liking, you should ensure that they use Exchange 2007 or later to work with Outlook.