Contact Categories and Time Zone Problems in Entourage / Exchange

[chrisrod9]

I used to use Entourage 2004 with Exchange 2003. I recently switched
over to running Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 because I was having
time zone issues with appointments (both with appointments created on
my BlackBerry and when receiving appointment requests via email). The
other (bigger) problem is that I noticed that when I created a new
contact through Entourage, the category inforamtion for that
particular contact did not "transfer" through to exchange. I Only
noticed this when I looked at my contacts in Outlook for the first
time and realized I had about 500 contacts with no categories. So my
question is as follows:

Does anyone know if these issues still remain with Entourage 2008 /
Exchange 2007? I would love to switch back over to doing everything
natively in Mac OSX but the time zone issue is tedious and the
category issue is a deal killer.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The
other (bigger) problem is that I noticed that when I created a new
contact through Entourage, the category inforamtion for that
particular contact did not "transfer" through to exchange.

Categories don't sync with Excahnge. That is indeed a problem
To work around it, I use a script to write the name of the categories in
the notes (since they do sync) and I then use another one on the other
Mac to read from notes and write back the categories.
http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=113

Corentin

 

[chrisrod9]

Categories don't sync with Excahnge. That is indeed a problem
To work around it, I use a script to write the name of the categories in
the notes (since they do sync) and I then use another one on the other
Mac to read from notes and write back the categories.http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?p=113

Corentin

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That sounds interesting. I will check it out but I've never used a
script before.

When you say "categories don't sync with Exchange", that only applies
to Entourage right? Or does that apply from Outlook too? It seems
like outlook does sync categories with exchange. Why in the world
does Entourage not sync categories, bye the way?

Chris

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

That sounds interesting. I will check it out but I've never used a
script before.

When you say "categories don't sync with Exchange", that only applies
to Entourage right? Or does that apply from Outlook too? It seems
like outlook does sync categories with exchange. Why in the world
does Entourage not sync categories, bye the way?

I believe Outlook does sync categories between WIndows machines (though
I hardly ever use Windows, so I can't really tell for sure).

Corentin