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Syncing Addresses, Calendar, & Tasks with Windows?
DJDaveET asks: "I'm a Windows XP user who has embraced OS X as an additional tool in my arsenal. It's a wonderful OS and the machine is a joy to use. My one major problem is thus -- currently, I'm a heavy Outlook user on my two Windows boxes. I use Outlook to manage my email, my contacts, my tasks, my calendar, etc. I currently use the fusionOne
service to keep those two computers and my Samsung I300 phone all in sync with one another. I need to have that same information on my PowerBook. I don't really care what applications they go into, as long as they're all available. Integrated would be wonderful. I'm not in a position to be able to completely abandon my Windows boxes, so I'd like the Mac to play well with the others. How can I keep the data all in sync? What apps should I use on the Mac for the appropriate parts -- email, tasks, calendar, contacts, etc?"
You could get a Palm, and sync it to one of the Windows boxes. Then sync one way to the Mac (from the Palm to the Mac) and you are done.
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I am not positive but I believe Apple is working on a solution for your problem right now. Sometime this month iSync should be released. It's entire purpose is to sync handhelds, phones, addressbooks, iCal etc with the same information.
You can get information about it here.
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You'll have to run Outlook:mac in classic. I've done it, works perfectly then connect to the server at fusion using this. It will get all your calender, address, email, everything. Just another outlook client. as for a osx one don't know if or when.
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To add and correct:
Microsoft Outlook 2001 for Macintosh is alive and well (released for only 1 year now). It's fully integrated with Exchange calendar (so long as you don't live in a place that does not do Daylight Savings Time--see MacWindows.com on a bug with Outlook and OS X). No, Outlook is not an OS X-native application.
I've been studying this idea, as well. I'm leaning less to Microsoft solutions and more to Apple or open source items as they have standards that, while not perfect, can be modified to do the job. I think the solution lies in part with Microsoft Entourage or Mail (which can use Exchange servers that have IMAP support activated), iCal, Address Book (which handles vCal cards), and iSync.
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It runs in OS X fine, just not as a carbon or cocoa app. I use Outlook 2001 all the time via Classic. I occasionally need to get to the address book, Public Folders, and calendars. It used to be kinda flakey in classic. Outlook would just hang up on me intermittently but 10.1.5 seemed to solve that for me.
since we are on the topic of exchange and Mac OS X. has anyone successfully configured the Jaguar address book to use LDAP to access the Exchange Address book? if so care to share the details? I just installed Jaguar and I'm still getting settled in. That would be one less thing to rely on Outlook for.
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You have two seperate problems
Email is one. For that, you want to get your arse on an IMAP server. This will allow your mail to "live" on the server (with only a local cache on the various boxes choose to log into). Heck, moving your email to IMAP will even allow you to install SquirrelMail on an apache/php system someplace, configure it to connect to your IMAP server, and then you even have web-based email.
Contacts/ToDo/Calendar is another problem.
iCal is, frighteningly enough, among the first major-publisher apps to use "standards based" file formats (in iCal's case, it's the iCalendar format). Outlook XP and Entourage v.X use MS-proprietary file formats. There is no way to easily transfer data *directly* between the apps. They may both bear the MS name, but the development teams are adequately siloed that they may as well be entirely different products.
As as previous poster mentioned, your best bet to go between Outlook XP and Entourage is going to be a Palm-based PDA (Palm, Handspring, Clie) with an Outlook conduit on the PC side. That will take care of your to-do, contacts, and calendar between those two apps.
Later, when iSync comes along, that same Palm will be able to sync your XP data with the Jaguar-internal apps: AddressBook and iCal.
That is, I'm afraid, the best option available for you. Chances are great that you can find an old Visor dirt-cheap on eBay (a used Handspring Visor will be your cheapest USB-based Palm solution.) Your serial number will get you the Handpring PC download with the Outlook conduit.
Best of luck!
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There isn't an easy way to export all contacts or calendar information from Outlook for whatever reason. Here's what I did and it works fine.
1) Create a share on your Windows box called "Calenar" or whatever
2) Launch Outlook and go to the Calendar
3) Open an appointment or event and go File->Save As...
4) Give the file a name and select iCalendar as the file type.
5) Repeat for any and all events you need transferred.
Note: For reoccuring events or series make sure when opening the event check the "Open the series" button. Then all occurances of the event will transfer.
Now on the Mac
1) On the Menu Bar in the Finder select Go->Connect to Server...
2) Either Browse to your computer or enter the address (smb://computername.domain/Calendar) and enter your username/password
3) Launch iCal and go File->Import
4) Navigate to the Calendar share mounted on your computer and open the calendar file
5) This will import the event to whatever calendar you have selected in iCal (ie Home, Work, whatever)
6) Repeat
The same proceedure works for the Contacts. Just save the file as vCal and throw it into the same share and use Address Book to import the data.
Use Mail App or whatever to connect via POP to your Exchange Server. Have fun with that Mac!
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