Office 2004 Service Pack 2

Well, suddenly (and surprisingly) the Color Bullets REAPPEARED today!! All is well.

Well, I wonder how MacDoug (see #13 above) still has the bullets then. If it's just a quirky thing I wonder if reinstalling SP2 would fix it. I'm afraid to do that, however, for the fear that I'd lose something else! I also have the blank spaces reserved. Hopefully they'll put the color back in. Are you listening Microsoft Engineers? We want our color bullets for our Mail, Project Center and Calendar!!

The color bullets are gone for me too. But there's still a space there, which makes me think that it's not the fact that it's no longer supported, but that someone goofed. If the intended to remove the feature, well, why is there still an indentation (the calendar looks like crap because nothing's lined up). Blecch...

The update has also affected the color bullets in my project cnter. They no longer exist in any display. Quite a disappointment. Hope this is fixed.

Interesting, after I updated blindly i still have the Project colored bullets, but the first thing that i noticed was that I no longer had a single Calendar that sync'd up only the "work" items with the exchange server, i.e. i could see my entire life on the one calendar, BUT now I have TWO calendars...On my Computer and Exchange!! so everything I had labeled 'work' was now on a different exchange calendar so i had to go back and manually put things back so i could see everything at a glance instead of being forced to toggle between two windows. additionally, why in the world would they get rid of Directory Services in the Tools menu? DS can't be found anywhere...i no longer have the ability to find people in my VERY large organization. Wonder what I'll find next...

I installed SP2 yesterday and to my disappointment, in Entourage, I no longer have the color bullets associated with my Projects. So when I open my Inbox the Project names are associated with an email but no more color bullets to quickly identify them. I spent an hour with customer support and they finally figured out that this feature is not available with SP2. Does this bother anyone else. I've written to mswish@microsoft.com but not sure if the engineers will add it in the next update. Any thoughts?

I installed SP2 yesterday and to my disappointment, in Entourage, I no longer have the color bullets associated with my Projects. So when I open my Inbox the Project names are associated with an email but no more color bullets to quickly identify them. I spent an hour with customer support and they finally figured out that this feature is not available with SP2. Does this bother anyone else. I've written to mswish@microsoft.com but not sure if the engineers will add it in the next update. Any thoughts?

These enhancements do increase the functionality of Entourage. The only thing I don't understand is why they can't get the free/busy function working when I'm trying to plan a meeting. I've read that it works for some and not for others. If they could get this working along with the Out-of-Office reply, I'd be a happy camper. I'm just afraid the Microsoft might start abandoning Office 2004 in favor of a newer release.

Greg -- Entourage is still a WebDAV client, not MAPI, and will require that OWA is available on your Exchange (2000 or 2003) server. That said, SP2 is a ***huge*** leap forward in Exchange support on Mac OS X, which is now finally approaching parity with the last true MAPI client for the Mac, Outlook 2001 -- still the gold standard and used, in Classic, at many large Exchange sites. I was present at a briefing with the Mac BU program manager and other MS representatives, and it really does seem that they have been listening to the concerns in the Mac marketplace with regard to Exchange integration. SP2 is not a magic bullet, but it does provide a great deal of the functionality that we've been looking for prior to rolling out Entourage to our users. I happen to know that one of the TUAW blogging team is going to be intimately involved in an Entourage SP2 rollout shortly... looking forward to future posts. :-) Now, if only the OWA rich client would work in Firefox and not just in @!$%&# IE 6 on XP!

Does it still lack native Exchange server support? Entourage only connects through Exchange's webmail interface (http calls). Can someone confirm if it can now connect without a webmail service? Greg