My company is on a hosted exchange 2007 solution with Rackspace, when I switched to Outlook 2011 on my mac I can't seem to search messages. There are no results. Anyone have advice?
If you launched Outlook, let your mail sync from Exchange, and then tried to search, it's possible that Spotlight hadn't finished caching your new files. If you try to search now, does it work?
bugout said:
Why is there no iCal syncing via sync services, yet it syncs contacts?
In Entourage, the Sync Services support was less than perfect, and some heavy users had problems with self-duplicating events and contacts. So for Outlook, we built a brand-new implementation of Sync Services support from the ground up, with the goal of avoiding those kinds of issues. We set a high quality bar because we want this to be the most awesome Outlook ever.
We hit the quality bar with contacts sync, but didn't get there with the calendar in time for the initial release. We'll add that support in a future service pack to Outlook. One of my colleagues on the Outlook team is writing a blog post with more details about this, so watch
Mac Mojo for it.
shootermac said:
It looks like those four contacts have Just a first name, not a last name, apparently this is messing with Outlook 2011.
Oh wow, that's weird. If you add a surname to those contacts, do they now show up in Outlook:Mac? (I'm going to ask a tester on the team to look into this too, but I'm curious if this fixes the problem for you.)
lewis82 said:
Quick question: can you run both Office 2008 and Office 2011 side to side?
Yes, you can.
darlenea said:
It looks like the student and home addition does not contain outlook. Is this correct? If I own the 2008 addition will I get the same three free licenses to update to the 2011?
That's correct. Outlook is included with the Home and Business Edition, not the Home and Student Edition.
If you purchased Office 2008 Home and Student Edition after August 1, 2010, you'll get a free upgrade to Office 2011 Home and Student Edition. For more information about the technology guarantee program, check out
this page.
WesCole said:
Without Access, I have no use for Office for Mac. I know Access uses the actual Windows OS to run, but you would think they would have a way to port it to Mac by now.
When we consider whether to add applications to our portfolio, there are two major things that we need to consider:
1. What is the need we're solving? How many people currently use that application in Windows Office, and how frequently do they use it? What other solutions exist in this space that users could use instead?
2. What is the cost of bringing this application to the platform? That is, how many developers will it require, how much experience do those developers need to have, and how long will it take?
So far, this equation hasn't worked out in the favour of bringing Access to the Mac. The need is relatively low. Access isn't used by a huge number of people, and most cross-platform database developers meet their needs by other applications (such as Apple's own FileMaker). Additionally, the cost of bringing Access to the Mac is quite high. As you note, Access uses quite a lot of Windows-specific technologies, and porting that over to the Mac would be extremely difficult and require a lot of highly-experienced cross-platform developers. We couldn't take a bunch of fresh college grads, throw them at the Access codebase, and expect anything good to come of it.
Regards,
Nadyne.
