Daylight Saving Time reminder

The US makes the switch to Daylight Saving Time Sunday, November 4, 2012. If you use Entourage or Outlook for Mac, you’ll need to quit and relaunch before it recognizes the time change.

Daylight Saving Time reminder

The US makes the switch to Daylight Saving Time Sunday, November 6, 2011. If you use Entourage or Outlook for Mac, you’ll need to quit  and relaunch before it recognizes the time change.

Microsoft releases Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.9 Update and Web Services Edition 13.0.9

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.9 Update. (333 MB) It has also released the Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition installer. (64 MB) The update requires that the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0) or later be installed first.

According to the update’s description this update improves stability and addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to execute malicious code.

This release is a cumulative patch that rolls together the . . .

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Fix: Sent time in replies or forwards for Exchange 2007 users

Microsoft posted fix for sent time in KB 2450078: The sent time in an email message body is incorrect when you reply or forward the email message by using an EWS application in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

This applies to both Entourage 2008 EWS v13 and Outlook for Mac 2011 in a  Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment.

To resolve this issue, install the following update rollup: Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

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New MobileMe Calendar uses CalDAV

If you are a MoblieMe member, Apple requires you to upgrade to the new CalDAV-based MobileMe Calendar by  May 5,  2011. Currently neither Entourage nor Outlook for Mac 2011 supports CalDAV. The new move also requires you to have Snow Leopard 10.6 installed and this requires an Intel computer. Apparently if you are still on Leopard, it works with limitations. See these links for additional info:

MobileMe: Frequently Asked Questions about the new MobileMe Calendar . . .

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Fix for PPC users on Tiger updating Office 2008

Office 2008 users on a PowerPC (PPC) running Tiger (10.4.xx ) that applied the Microsoft Office 12.2.7 updater might need to do this fix in order for the Microsoft AutoUpdater (MAU) to work correctly.

Locate this folder:  Library/Application Support/Microsoft

Option 1: If you have not installed 12.2.8 updater….

Remove the MAU and MERP folder (just trash them), and then run the 12.2.8 update. They will get the correct version of  MAU and MERP. Restart . . .

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.8 Update released

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.8 Update now available via Microsoft AutoUpdater or by direct download. If you installed 12.2.7 and were experiencing problems, it’s unclear at this time if the updater will fix those issues or if you will need to re-install Office. This updater requires 12.2.1 to be installed.

Before updating Office, I suggest archiving (zipping) your Office folder or making a duplicate if you do not have a Time Machine backup of Office . . .

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Use EagleFiler to archive Outlook & Entourage messages

Office for Mac users are waiting on many applications to include Outlook capability. Michael Tsai has updated both EagleFiler and SpamSieve for Outlook. C-Command Software has been around since 2002 and Michael is well known in Mac circles as being responsive to users and creating solid applications that are easy to use. Check out his reviews here.

Use EagleFiler to archive your email messages. EagleFiler works with both Entourage and Outlook. I especially recommend that . . .

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Entourage coexists with Office 2011 Home & Student

Now that an email client is not included in the Home & Student version of Office 2011, users are asking ‘can I continue to use Entourage’? The answer is yes! See  Microsoft KB: 2394241 for full details.  You cannot find Entourage 2008 after installing Office for Mac 2011

If you decide at a later time that you want to upgrade Office 2011 Home & Student to include Outlook, you will be able to upgrade to Home . . .

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