Entourage gets Spotlight, Sync Services support
Entourage finally gets Spotlight support in an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 
released today.
The update features improvements to all the Office apps, but Entourage gets some features that users have long been asking for. (Remember the Entourage developer who posted here in January looking for user feedback and feature suggestions?)
According to the release notes:
- Entourage now syncs with Mac OS X Sync Services. Users of Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later versions of Mac OS can synchronize Entourage items with other programs, such as Address Book and iCal. You can also synchronize items with other Macintosh computers via Apple’s .Mac online services, and with portable devices, such as phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
- Users of Mac OS X 10.4 or later versions of Mac OS can use Spotlight to search Entourage items. You can use Spotlight to index all unencrypted Entourage items and search their contents.
- Entourage can use smart cards to sign, encrypt, and decrypt e-mail messages. For users of Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later versions of Mac OS, this update provides improved compatibility with Mac OS keychain support for smart cards, such as Common Access Cards. As a result, Entourage can use certificates and private keys stored on smart cards to sign, encrypt, and decrypt Entourage e-mail messages.
- SSL connections to Mac OS X 10.4 servers work correctly Entourage and other Office programs are more compatible with self-signed certificates, which are used to establish secure (SSL) connections to servers running Mac OS X 10.4 Server.
- Entourage is smarter about handling iCal invitations
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March 15th, 2006 at 8:20 am
Anyone know how this will work? That is, is the syncing automatic, so that your entourage addresses and calendar entries will show up in iCal or AddressBook? Or does it sync directly to devices (iPod, cell phone)? I had been using e2sync for this–sounds like that’s no longer necessary.
March 15th, 2006 at 8:29 am
It sync directly into Sync Services–thus events/tasks show up in iCal and contacts within Address Book. It also hooks into both iSync and .Mac synching.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:13 am
So… how many years late now? That SSL should have been top priority.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
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