I’m trying various options for consolidating data from Now Contact into Entourage, which I’ve been using only for email. In the process, I’ve discovered that 1) Entourage ignores the “Category” listing on the vcard, even if the category exists in Entourage, and 2) that the Views options for Contacts does not include a “Date Added” so that I can use that to filter for recently added records and assign categories manually after import.

I’ve also found that sometimes a vcard import will appear to work, but the records do not show up in the Address Book (Entourage’s Address Book, not Apple’s). They DO appear in “Changed in the Past 7 Days” but I’m unable to delete them. I wondered if perhaps Entourage considers a deleted record to be something that has changed and keeps a record of it even after it is gone, but when I experiment with deleting other records, that does not seem to be the case. It’s only with vcard imports…

1. The delay in loading large mailboxes. One user took two days (!!!)
2. Local contact lists created in Outlook from Exchange contacts (and stored on the Exchange server) are not visible in Entourage.
3. Meeting requests are very unrelaible — sometime they show up and sometimes they don’t. Problem is particuarly noticeable when inviting an Exchange email group or sending to users with out-of-office enabled.
4. Entourage likes to move perfectly good, individually addressed email from another Exchange user into its junk folder. This seems to be random and happens even on the “low” junk setting.

Other than that it’s perfect.

Has anyone else had these issues?

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I say “tries” because if I left the window maximized, I get a toolbar across the screen at the middle, with no text or address entry areas until I hit the Maximize button again.

If the window is NOT maximized, it always comes back at one size, regardless of what size I left it. And on that default size, it does not handle wordwrap and screen painting correctly, so I can type off the end of the window and not see it, and if I back over the last character at the end of the window, it doesn’t erase it.

I am frankly not very happy with Entourage 2008, and tend to use an IMAP client against our Exchange server unless I really NEED to access my calendar. Perhaps Microsoft will release a fix eventually?

Go to Preferences:Mail & News Preferences: Compose. At the bottom is a pref called “Recent Addresses.” Here you can either turn this feature off or on, or clear the list of collected addresses.