The functional differences have been discussed at length elsewhere (like on Steve Goodman’s excellent feature comparison table.) As Steve points out, the Mac version of Outlook feels much like Entourage. That got me to thinking about the differences in the Outlook brand between Mac and Windows. He came up with a workable solution, and as a bonus he wrote a detailed tutorial on how to set up calendar sync.
Accordingly, I dragged a third MVP into the fray: Mac/Windows interop expert William Smith.
I used to sync my calendar with various Palm devices back in the day using Entourage, Outlook’s predecessor, but it was always a painful and error-fraught process, and I was happy to move to an all-Exchange, all-Exchange ActiveSync environment.Ī friend and fellow MVP mailed me with a Mac Outlook calendar sync question, and I didn’t have the faintest idea of what the right answer was. In the same vein, because all my calendar and contact data live on an Exchange server, I haven’t had to fiddle with calendar sync for some time.
Because all my mailboxes are hosted on Exchange, for example, I don’t ever use any of the IMAP functionality. Although I’ve been working with Outlook for Mac for quite some time, there are lots of its features that I don’t use.
