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February 15, 2005
February Meeting Notes
Great turn out today with some good prizes. Thanks to everyone who took a couple hours out of their day. I promise to tell our contact at O'Reilly to not send any more history books.
The discussion of Entourage and Exchange covered the basics of what does work (namely email, calendaring, directory services and not much else) as well as what is definitely not functioning...delegates, managing distribution lists, many functions related to Public Folders and viewing other user calendars. Microsoft has announced a second half of 2005 upgrade that promises to address many of these issues. The Microsoft Office 2004 Resource Kit provides a wealth of information related to Entourage's current Exchange support issues.
Thanks to Joe Williams of IT for his "Cool Tool" presentation of Carbon Copy Cloner. While demoing the software, Joe highly recommended using the ASR option as a way to save time and suggested that you use a destination drive that is a minimum of 2.5x the size of the source volume.
If you have an indespensible mac tool that you use, please consider presenting it at a future ASUMAC meeting.
Thanks to Al Teran from Apple for his recap of recent Apple product announcements. Al also mentioned two nifty "hacks" to increase the functionality of your Mac. iScroll2 adds the ability to scroll using your Powerbook Trackpad just like the latest model from Apple and Screen Spanning Doctor provides the ability to extend the desktop to multiple displays on Macs that don't typically support them. (Disclaimer - ASUMAC is not endorsing either product...just passing along these system hacks for those interested in trying them. We do however highly recommend reading any associated readme files prior to installation.)
Finally, Thanks to Guy Mullins of DMIT who showed us why there is so much buzz aboout Podcasting. This session was packed with useful information so if you missed something or weren't able to attend, I highly recommend perusing the handout that accommpanied the presenation. Podcasting looks like a great way to offer course lecture material to students.
That was it for February. We are tentatively planning our next meeting for March 22. More info will be posted and annouced on MacHelp in the coming weeks.
Posted by snelson at February 15, 2005 08:51 PM
