J
Jon Carlson
I know a lot has been asked about shared calendars and contacts, but I
have been tearing my hair out for a while now and can't quite get what
I want.
My situation is that my wife and I would like to share a single,
merged calendar and contacts list. We use Outlook and PDAs (Palm). We
have been accomplishing this via Outlook2000 and Net Folders by having
Net Folders sync the Calendar and Contacts folder. This mostly worked,
but once in a while something would go haywire and it'd break. When it
breaks, there's inevitably a bunch of synchronization problems leading
to every entry duplicated, or somesuch, with a lot of manual data
fixing that's growing over time. Basically it is the functionality we
wanted, it just wasn't reliable.
So.... I have been messing with Exchange Server to see if I can get
similar functionality, but I'm kind of hitting a brick wall there too.
Here's what I want:
1. I want to see a merged calendar, not my calendar side by side with
her calendar.
2. We are both allowed to edit each other's entries, delete them, etc.
3. I want to sync the merged calendar to my PDA from my computer, and
her PDA from her computer.
4. Same for contacts.
Basically an Exchange public folder might work if I could just make my
PDAs sync to that as the default, but so far I haven't found a way to
get that done, at least not with the default HotSync program.
Chapura's PocketMirror Professional (or maybe even Standard?) sounds
like it might work, but I'm a little unclear on what it does with
categories (sounds like it uses them for folder names) and I have a
fair amount of categories in my Contacts that I'd rather not lose.
Another alterative might be ShareO (I don't really need Exchange other
than this issue), but I tried a sample a couple years ago and it was a
buggy disaster and I'm a bit afraid of trying it again.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
have been tearing my hair out for a while now and can't quite get what
I want.
My situation is that my wife and I would like to share a single,
merged calendar and contacts list. We use Outlook and PDAs (Palm). We
have been accomplishing this via Outlook2000 and Net Folders by having
Net Folders sync the Calendar and Contacts folder. This mostly worked,
but once in a while something would go haywire and it'd break. When it
breaks, there's inevitably a bunch of synchronization problems leading
to every entry duplicated, or somesuch, with a lot of manual data
fixing that's growing over time. Basically it is the functionality we
wanted, it just wasn't reliable.
So.... I have been messing with Exchange Server to see if I can get
similar functionality, but I'm kind of hitting a brick wall there too.
Here's what I want:
1. I want to see a merged calendar, not my calendar side by side with
her calendar.
2. We are both allowed to edit each other's entries, delete them, etc.
3. I want to sync the merged calendar to my PDA from my computer, and
her PDA from her computer.
4. Same for contacts.
Basically an Exchange public folder might work if I could just make my
PDAs sync to that as the default, but so far I haven't found a way to
get that done, at least not with the default HotSync program.
Chapura's PocketMirror Professional (or maybe even Standard?) sounds
like it might work, but I'm a little unclear on what it does with
categories (sounds like it uses them for folder names) and I have a
fair amount of categories in my Contacts that I'd rather not lose.
Another alterative might be ShareO (I don't really need Exchange other
than this issue), but I tried a sample a couple years ago and it was a
buggy disaster and I'm a bit afraid of trying it again.
Thanks for any help you can offer.