Switching to mac - a live experiment February 25, 2007
My new MacBook Black arrived at the office last Friday. It was a nice chance to showcase to my colleagues the “Apple Way”: precision in every single detail; that would a nice method to apply to our daily tasks, I’m planning an internal presentation about this.
At Gabetti we have a whole Microsoft infrastructure (and it’s a kind of a network if you think we manage 1 headquarter, 7 branch offices and more than 700 agencies all over Italy) so we’re about to face the complex task to insert a Mac (well, actually 2 of them since we’ve bought a Mini for the IT meeting room) in this MS world.
In the forthcoming days I’ll update this post on the results of making fully usable this list of applications and tools (and possibly avoiding dual boot):
- Microsoft Project
Update: Done! I’ve installed Windows Vista over Parallels and successfully integrated Project over the Project Web Server. - Using
iMail and iCalEntourage on an exchange server (obviously using autocompletion for the email addresses)
Update: done! the installation path was as slight as possible and withing a couple of clicks I had all my mails and agenda on the MacBook - Connecting the Address Book to our Active Directory
- Exchange complexly formatted Word, Powerpoint and Excel files with my colleagues
Update: partly done I’ve started working on our ppt templates without any assle. Need to explore further though. - Taking advantage of the Application Access Profile I have in my AD profile
Update: partly done. It works in Vista over Parallels; not yet under Mac OS.
While I’m pretty confident that point 4. is not going to be a mess, I’d really like to hear from those of you who already successfully managed one of the remaining points.
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2 Responses to “Switching to mac - a live experiment”
matteo, how did you solved the problem of migrating contacts? do you have a centralized db on exchange or you were used to use a local address book on outlook? and, if this is the case, how did you managed this?
I am living with the same .pst file (moving it from version to version) since 10 years now, and saving this history is really the only “panic” I have in migrating definitely on the macbook (that, let’s say it again, is fantastic
Alberto,
actually I hadn’t to migrate contacts, using entourage it simply syncronized my pre-existing (in Outlook 2003) contacts to Entourage, that’s the magic of centralized infrastructure.
One pst in 10 years! OMG I think I had nearly 15 psts in the last 10 years