Outlook 2010

[sgreen]

Outlook 2010 betas are available and of course the Execs are quite excited, any idea when it will be supported? or even working but not supported?

[anybody]

A timely support for Outlook 2010 would be really nice. I've currently most of the clients on Outlook 2003 and it's just a horribly old and buggy and sucky program

2007 might be a bit better, but we sure as hell aren't going to spend shedloads money on 2007 now that 2010 is just around the corner
So being able to upgrade to 2010 soon after release, that would be great.

[stefano]

i have installed OL2010 on scalix 11.4.3 via IMAP connections and i have authentications problems.

When i insert Password for SMTP, scalix doesn't authenticate...

Any ideas ?

[ls-al]

i have installed OL2010 on scalix 11.4.3 via IMAP connections and i have authentications problems.

When i insert Password for SMTP, scalix doesn't authenticate...

Any ideas ?

Your post is at least in the wrong section as you are not using Scalix Connect for Outlook.
I havent tested OL2010 with IMAP, but its hard to believe that its IMAP/SMTP authentication differs heavily from the one that is used in TB or basically SWA.
Its not not clear from your post if the authentication issues are appearing in IMAP or SMTP or both of them.
For authentication issues you should mention if you are using external authentication or not. Its also worth to mention that in a default install IMAP allows empty passwords while SMTP does not.

[sgreen]

IMAP and SMTP seem to work fine for us with Outlook 2010. Still wondering when it will see connector support.

[echelon]

So are the execs excited because of specific features or just reflexive "it is newer so it mush be better." As with most MS software I would be cautious about rolling it out the moment it ships- especially if it requires additional RAM.

[thom]

Office 2010 (including Outlook) has now been "released to manufacturing" (RTM). This means the code has been finalised and there will be no more changes.
You can see more info about it on the Microsoft Office Engineering blog - http://bit.ly/c4Pfsg

It will be available to volume licensing customers from April 27th and it will be available in retail and pre-installed on PCs from June.
Can we have some word on if and when Scalix connect will support it?

@anybody

2007 might be a bit better, but we sure as hell aren't going to spend shedloads money on 2007 now that 2010 is just around the corner

If you buy 2007 now you can get a free upgrade to Office 2010 as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee - http://bit.ly/b9Zi9n

[anybody]

If you buy 2007 now you can get a free upgrade to Office 2010 as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee - http://bit.ly/b9Zi9n

Yeah, like the free upgrade to Windows 7 that was actually 20-30€ per License, depending on the (notebook) vendor.
(and of course you had to pay the full amount even if all the licenses were shipped in a single package, so it really wasn't for shipping at all)

No thanks, I'll rather wait another month than go through that upgrade hassle again
(It took several eMails and 3 phone calls to Dell to even get a simple invoice for the money I spent on those upgrades)

[SidebandSamurai]

Any info regarding this?

My client has Office 2010 on the list and its a free upgrade for them so they want to move on this asap.

Thanks!

Sideband Samurai

[anybody]

Any news here? Several of my scalix users have decided to upgrade to Office 2010 now that it's available and basically all I'm waiting for is Scalix support before I order the Office packs.

[sgreen]

If you install over 2007 it sorta works, rules and out of office are broken though.
It is also not supported. I would imagine it will take several months for scalix to officially support it.

[thom]

I've been using Outlook 2010 for about a month now and it does alright using the existing connector.
Like @sgreen says, rules and out of office don't work, you get a plug-in error each time it starts.
I can live with it but I wouldn't roll it out to anyone until scalix officially supports it.

Still surprised there is now official word from scalix on this (unless I missed it). Then again, I've come to expect the poor Outlook support since 2007 was released.

[sgreen]

I email their sales folks and they told me Q1 2011

[thom]

2011! Seriously? Have they even started looking at it yet?
Well lets hope the go for advanced outlook compatibility (categories/conversation view/search) and not just the basics
Very disappointed

[ltward]

They have been looking at it for quite a while.

While previous versions of Outlook used Exchange Client Extensions, Microsoft are not using those with 2010; they have switched to using COM add-Ins. As a result, many modules need extensive re-work.