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Calendar event corruption with Entourage/Outlook, iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, and Exchange 2010

IvanExpert has discovered serious calendar-related bugs which arise in specific cases when Microsoft Outlook for Mac (or Entourage), iOS devices, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 are used together.

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Identities in Outlook for Mac (like Entourage has)

How to “switch identities,” or user profiles, in Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011.

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Why Entourage Sucks

Entourage causes so many problems, mostly due to its large database.

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How to set up Google Apps or Gmail on a Mac

You can set up your Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book to automatically synchronize with a Gmail or Google Apps account. (I’ll cover the best way to do it on an iOS device in a  future post.) Mail: Log on to your Gmail account (or Google Apps account, which I will refer to generically as [...]

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Microsoft Exchange for Mac

What are the advantages of using Microsoft Exchange with a Mac, instead of using Google Apps or MobileMe or another solution?

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Apple Mail, IMAP, and special folders

Note: everything below can be generally applied to most any IMAP mail application, including Outlook, Thunderbird, and the version of Mail included in iOS. Only the details vary. Unfortunately, no standards exist as to what IMAP special folders should be called, so every mail host and IMAP client does things a little differently. When setting [...]

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How We Created a Specialized Spam Filter

One of our clients was getting a lot of spam in Russian on his Mac. Here’s how we created a specialized email filter to eliminate the Russian spam.

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Reliable Entourage Backup Using Applescript

We wrote a custom Applescript for a client so that he could reliably back up his Entourage database using Carbon Copy Cloner.

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IMAP Versus POP Mail on the Mac

There are 2 ways your email can be set up: POP and IMAP. Do you know the difference between POP and IMAP?

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Google and IMAP, Part 1

Google and IMAP issues.

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IvanExpert provides superior Mac, iPhone, and iPad support for small businesses and home users in New York City. We provide on-site help with a range of Apple computer and mobile issues.

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