Originally Posted By: donikatz
use of both 2004 and 2008 on an Exchange Server will definitely cause problems, many of which will go away if all the users update to 2008.

Can you expound upon that a bit, please?


This is what Microsoft emphatically and repeatedly told us, that with an Exchange Server, use of both Entourage 2004 and 2008, where calendaring as well as email is being managed in the Microsoft Exchange Server, will lead to known problems. They said the same thing about Outlook 2003 and 2007 for the PC side.

The above applies to use of a central Exchange Server. Microsoft said that in that situation, Entourage 2004 conflicts with 2008, Outlook 2003 conflicts with 2007. (And presumably Entourage 2004 doesn't work entirely well with Outlook 2007 and so on). They emphasized that all employees (all 7000+ at this site we have) must update to the latest versions of Entourage and Outlook for them all the work smoothly together.

I don't think the above caveat about using the latest versions applies to individuals running the software as a standalone email or calendaring program without the central Exchange Server (for instance, using Entourage or Outlook simply to retrieve emails from, say, Earthlink). Then any version of the software that is compatible with the internet/email provider should be fine, whether it is the 2003, 2004, 2007 or 2008 version.


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