Syncing Entourage with iCal

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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

Hi, I recently purchased a new macbook pro with MS Office 2008, entourage being my e-mail client, not Mail so that I can connect to our exchange service. I also use an iPhone which syncs using mobileme. Because I use entourage, all of my appointments are in the entourage calendar (and not iCal) so to get them on the iPhone, I have to sync my entourage calendar with iCal.

That all worked fine until I ran an automatic Mac OS X update. After that update each of my appointments were duplicated in both entourage and iCal. That took some time to clean up in entourage so I deactivated the sync to iCal and just left the duplicates in iCal.

Have I done something wrong when setting this up or is there a bug?

If there is a right way to do this, how do I first remove all the appointments from iCal before syncing with entourage?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

duplication of data was a problem in earlier versions of Office 2008, but
the most recent updates have fixed some, if not most, synching problems. So
before enabling synching with iCal once again, make sure your copy of Office
is up-to-date by clicking on Check for Updates in Entourage's Help menu.
After that, you can re-enable synching in Entourage's preferences. You'll be
asked how you want the initial synch process to take place, i.e. replace
your Entourage data with the data found in iCal, replace the data in iCal
with the one in Entourage, or merge both.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

Hi, I recently purchased a new macbook pro with MS Office 2008, entourage
being my e-mail client, not Mail so that I can connect to our exchange
service. I also use an iPhone which syncs using mobileme. Because I use
entourage, all of my appointments are in the entourage calendar (and not iCal)
so to get them on the iPhone, I have to sync my entourage calendar with iCal.

That all worked fine until I ran an automatic Mac OS X update. After that
update each of my appointments were duplicated in both entourage and iCal.
That took some time to clean up in entourage so I deactivated the sync to iCal
and just left the duplicates in iCal.

Have I done something wrong when setting this up or is there a bug?

If there is a right way to do this, how do I first remove all the appointments
from iCal before syncing with entourage?

Any help would be appreciated.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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How can I sync Entourage with mobile me..

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

How can I sync Entourage with mobile me..

well it's the same thing. You enable syncing through SyncServices.
The data all ends up in one big central database called the Truth
database and that's what's read for iCal or syncing to MobileMe.

Corentin

 

[Jan-Paul van den Bos]

At first it seems if setting up Entourage - Apple apps (iCal, Mail and
Address book) is easy. And you'll probably find that all is well, except the
iCal. In my case iCal had content (appointments and ToDo's) and Entourage
remained empty. Entourage will only show iCal content if the iCal calender
called Entourage (an automatically created calendar in iCal) has the
appointments and ToDo's. There is no other way. (Believe me I tried.) So
there's one option: copy your content to the Entourage calendar in iCal. This
may seem like a task, but it's doable. You can select multiple appointments
by shift-click or shift-arrow in the search result list. And then right click
(or crtl-click) to move to the Entourage calender (in iCal).

Further I use my Nokia E61 to have calendar and contacts on the go. The
Nokia site has the plugin for iSync (the built in Mac OS synchronization).

The Nokia is also the go-between for my Mac at home and the Outlook/Exchange
client at work. This runs on Windows and has the standard Nokia sync software
for Windows.

The end result is I have to remember to sync on both machines. But that
doesn't really hinder me. At the same time for this arrangement I did not
need any additional plug-ins or payed services.

To finish off: I also use me.com to bring my vital mac stuff with me on the
net and sync Entorage contacts with Gmail (a setting in Entourage), so I now
have exactly 1 contact list. Bliss!