Windows Office Compatability

Hi
My small office (8 PCs) has a windows server and uses outlook as their email client and has shared diary capabilities through this.
Would a mac work in this situation with shared diaries, drives etc......
What are the potential issues?
Thanks
Chris

WhichWayNow wrote:
My small office (8 PCs) has a windows server and uses outlook as their email client and has shared diary capabilities through this.
Would a mac work in this situation with shared diaries, drives etc......
Yes
What are the potential issues?
Email. Are you hosting your own e-mail server or using something like gmail? The Windows Exchange server is very hard to run with 3rd party clients like Apple Mail. Some versions work in some configurations, but many do no not.
Other than that, you have describe the working environment of most corporate Macs, including mine. So yes, it should work fine.

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