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Feature Outlook 2007 Outlook 2003 Entourage 2004 Entourage 2008 OWA OWA Light WM 6 Blackberry Palm IMAP
Access Personal E-mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access Personal Calendar Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Access Personal Contacts Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes? No
Access Tasks Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes ? ? No
Access Notes Yes Yes No Yes No No ? ? ? No
View Free/Busy Yes Yes Yes* Yes Yes Yes No? No? No? No
View Real-time Free/Busy
(vs. up to 15 minute delay)
Yes No No ? Yes Yes No? No? No? No
Grant Delegate Permissions
(share calendar data)
Yes Yes No Yes **** No No No No No No
Access Delegate Data
(access other user's data)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Inbox
Calendar
No? No No No No
Restore Deleted Items
(self service restore)
Yes Yes No? Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Create Server-based Rules
(mail filtering)
Yes Yes Yes** Yes Yes ? No No No No
Out of Office (Vacation) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Message Forwarding
(forward all email to
external email address)
Yes
Rules
Yes?
Rules
Yes?
Rules
Yes?
Rules
Yes? ? No No No No
Inter-Exchange Free/Busy
(depends on other campus
Exchange servers support)
Yes No No ? Yes Yes No No No No
Access "Sharepoint Services"*** Yes Yes
Read-only
No ? ? No No No No No
Quota warning via pop-up Yes                  

*Entourage can only see free/busy and not event details.
**Rules create in Outlook are not viewable in Entourage and vice-versa
*** Sharepoint provides a web interface that provides varying degree of access depending on client (again, IE on Windows is preferred platform)
**** No notification sent, user must know calendar is shared & how to find it

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