Selecting an Email & Calendaring Program in Exchange
Updated: August 28, 2009
When moving to Exchange, you are not required to change email programs. Some features for email and calendaring will only be available in certain programs. The table below can help you decide which program(s) are right for you, based on what you need to be able to do.
Outlook 2007 |
Outlook 2003 |
Entourage 2008 |
Mail, iCal, & Address Book in Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) |
OWA Premium (using Internet Explorer) |
OWA Light (using non-IE web browsers) |
Other email programs (e.g., Eudora, Thunderbird, etc.) |
|
| Ability to use my Exchange calendar | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Ability to archive email to local folders | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to configure vacation/auto-replies | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Ability to create email rules/filters | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Ability to delegate access to your email and/or calendar to someone else | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
N/A |
| Ability to act as a delegate in email and/or calendar on behalf of someone else | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Calendar - Yes Email/Contacts - No |
Yes |
No |
N/A |
| Ability to choose whether or not to send a response, or edit a response, when replying to a meeting invitation | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Ability to use the scheduling assistant to find free meeting times for a group of people | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes *No details unless you view the calendar as a delegate |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
| Ability to share my calendar | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
N/A |
| Ability to view a shared calendar | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
N/A |
| Ability to propose a new time for a meeting that you are invited to | Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
N/A |
| Ability to make a calendar event private | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
| Ability to use the Exchange global address list (GAL) | Yes | Yes | Yes *with EWS add-in |
Yes *No GAL sublists are available (e.g., "All Rooms") |
Yes | Yes | No |
| Ability to have new Exchange information via push instead of timed updates | Yes | Yes | Yes *with EWS add-in |
No |
Yes | Yes | No |