iCal sync does not work in Entourage 2008

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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Thanks Michael - I worked that out - but not as quickly as you did. It's
really a pain - I gave up on Entourage 2004 because of the category
syncing issues. And they're still here.
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The problem is that iCal offers multiple calendars, but no categories
and Entourage offers multiple categories, but syncs only one calendar.

it clearly doesn't match up. What I ould have liekd is a preference
allowing me to map categories from Entourage to calendars in iCal.....

Corentin
 
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Heather

So far it seems that the calendar remains the weakest link in the entire Office Suite. Kind of makes the "My Day" applet kind of worthless if you can't use the calendar to do what you want. With Outlook you can now use ics files, have multiple calendars and even subscribe to calendars. I would LOVE to have that functionality in Office 2008 and with all the work that went into the upgrade thought we just might see it. I like having multiple calendars so that I can keep track of sporting events... but also turn off those calendars when I don't want my calendar to be overloaded. I would really like Microsoft to address this so I don't have to use Parallel's to accomplish what I want.
 
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Mathew Clegg

Hi there! I followed all the tips mentioned here and on the linked pages but still:
-Ical shows an entourage calender (so far so good)
-I enter an event in ical: it comes up in entourage
-the same event gets erased from ical during the next sync attepmt (eg another new event in ical a few minutes later)
AND
NO entourage events are transferred to ical, although that worked perfectly with E04.

anz further ideas? (running OS10.4.11)
 
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FIG Technologies

Every time I sync my blackberry with the ical application via pocketmac it
defaults the calendar to ³pocketmac.² If it defaulted it to ³entourage² I
wouldn¹t need to manually change each event. Is there a way to do this?
 
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Dylan Carlson

Doesn¹t work for me, at all (no Entourage calendar shows up in iCal, nada).
Are you on Leopard or Tiger?

Regards
 
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George C.

This all sounds very disappointing and that is why I have been researching for new software to replace the whole MS office, especially Entourage. Check out Daylite 3.7 at www.marketcircle.com this solution is not cheap but it looks like it will handle all our needs (when used with Mail, iLife, iWork and iCal)

Cheers.
 
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Greg Armstrong

I agree with George C. I have been using Entourage for years and used its sync services. The disappointing thing is that Mactopia had the perfect opportunity to make the changes necessary for seamless synch services from iCal to Entourage and back. Some of you may ask why I want the information to go back? This is why....I have 2 macs - a desktop and a laptop. I need both to be synched together. The only way I have found for that to happen is to go through Entourage to iCal/Address Book through .Mac and then to iCal/Address Book to Entourage on the other computer. It was working pretty well,, even when I had my Treo synching with the G5 using Mark Space to do it (which is good for those of you with a pda phone). However, it was very disappointing to find quirks at times such as the sync preferences shut off by itself or after an update. Then when reactivating it I would end up with 2 or 4 or more timed the duplicate calendar events. The other bummer was that Projects could not be synched. Lastly, Entourage doesn't sync categories through iCal, so when all the info appeared on the laptop, I had a generic category-less event. So when I traveled I had to remember what it belonged to, as well as any links or projects. It sounds like entourage 2012 might be the answer.
In the meantime, I might be into Daylite by marketcircle since it uses proper synching mechanisms to make it work. Also, there is Project X, although I don't think it is as user-friendly. -Greg
 
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drmarv2

I agree with George C. I have been using Entourage for years and used its sync services. The disappointing thing is that Mactopia had the perfect opportunity to make the changes necessary for seamless synch services from iCal to Entourage and back. Some of you may ask why I want the information to go back? This is why....I have 2 macs - a desktop and a laptop. I need both to be synched together. The only way I have found for that to happen is to go through Entourage to iCal/Address Book through .Mac and then to iCal/Address Book to Entourage on the other computer. It was working pretty well,, even when I had my Treo synching with the G5 using Mark Space to do it (which is good for those of you with a pda phone). However, it was very disappointing to find quirks at times such as the sync preferences shut off by itself or after an update. Then when reactivating it I would end up with 2 or 4 or more timed the duplicate calendar events. The other bummer was that Projects could not be synched. Lastly, Entourage doesn't sync categories through iCal, sowhen all the info appeared on the laptop, I had a generic category-less event. So when I traveled I had to remember what it belonged to, as well as anylinks or projects. It sounds like entourage 2012 might be the answer.
In the meantime, I might be into Daylite by marketcircle since it uses proper synching mechanisms to make it work. Also, there is Project X, although I don't think it is as user-friendly. -Greg
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Mike,

I, too, need two computers to sync and I'd like to use Entourage in my
business. But I need calendar reminders at home. I've had great
success matching work and home with iCal. Could you be very clear:
Can Entourage do that by .Mac or other means? I must have that
capability soon or I'll need to return to using iCal.

--marv
 
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Gabster

Has anyone been able to sycn through entourage 2008 and an iPhone....i think there is a major bug where any calender added on the iphone will not be synced on entourage. I have now tried this on 3 computers all of which have the same effect. I have no had to resort back to 2004. Please, if anyone has been able to do this, i would love to know...
 
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Sofus Comer

Bummer that you guys didnt listen to the cries for full sync with ical. This actually has been a major voice for years.

How can you now say that we can put a request for sync with iCal with the Microsoft team? We have been doing this for 4 years. Have you missed this?

In response to other solutions out there, i recommend googles calendar if you dont mind them evesdropping on headlines or the integrated iCal with .mac it actually work pretty decent most of the time.

Kind Regards Sofus / Denmark
 
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Luis

I have a situation where Entourage syncs once with iCal then refuses to update iCal with new events.

However, if I create an event in iCal, it will send the event to Entourage.

I've tried following the instructions at:
 

Any thoughts on how to further debug or fix it?
 
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Michael Schoolnik

I have a similar problem only mine is confined to contact syncing and not calendar:

I am running Office:mac 2008. Entourage is communicating with hosted Office 2003 Server over a VPN.

My 2000 contacts are syncing perfectly with Apple's address book program and my Entourage contacts, but I have duplicated the following bug with iTunes V 7.6 and iPhone 1.1.3 a few times:

I create a small group of 50 contacts in Address Book and name it "Mobile". It syncs beautifully with iTunes, and some time late, those 50 contacts are missing from the Address Book on my iMac.

After sync: "0" on iMac, "50" on iPhone
If I attempt to synch again, the "0" on my iMac cancels out he "50" on my iPhone, so I have to turn off synchronization for that particular file.

Now, I realize that this is an Entourage discussion, but I have the feeling that my needs are akin to other users here, so please don't flame me for that.

Since iPhone does not Recognize Entourage contacts, one must use Apples Address Book SW in order to sync contacts with the iPhone, correct?
 
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JD

@ Gabster

I too found that whatever is entered in iphone ends up in the Entourage calendar on ical, but not in Entourage itself. However, I found that the event eventually makes it to Entourage, but only after one or two more syncs in iTunes.
 
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SM

I have followed the instructions on this page but I still get the same problem where Sync Services crashes about every 2 seconds and gives me this error:

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_ARITHMETIC
Date/Time: 2008-01-28 17:54:15 -0800
Application Name: Microsoft Sync Services
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.entourage.syncservices12
Application Signature: MSS1
Application Version: 12.0.0.071130
Crashed Module Name: EntourageCore
Crashed Module Version: unknown
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00006a94
Blame Module Name: EntourageCore
Blame Module Version: unknown
Blame Module Offset: 0x00006a94
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409

This is really annoying and frustrating.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

SM said:
problem where Sync Services crashes about every 2 seconds and gives me
this error:<br>
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Turn it off.
My bet though is that one of the elements you are trying to sync is
corrupted.
You might want to see in the Console (/Applications/Utilities/Console)
to see if anything pops-up,


Corentin
 
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Mike_N

Similar problems to others syncing with Entourage 2008 ... if I add an event into a Palm Treo it syncs to iCal in a calendar called Unfiled. If I remember to go into iCal and change that new event from the Unfiled to the Entourage calendar (sort of defeats the purpose of adding an even into the Palm in the first place) that event will not sync back to Entourage.

Sync features are in my opinion THE major gap in Entourage 2008.
 
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Art Shotwell

Similar problems to others syncing with Entourage 2008 ... if I add an event
into a Palm Treo it syncs to iCal in a calendar called Unfiled. If I remember
to go into iCal and change that new event from the Unfiled to the Entourage
calendar (sort of defeats the purpose of adding an even into the Palm in the
first place) that event will not sync back to Entourage.

Sync features are in my opinion THE major gap in Entourage 2008.
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It seems to me that more than a few people are having problems and are not
happy with the sync capabilities attached to Entourage2008. Strange that the
MacBU doesn¹t seem to respond to these complaints nor do they promise to do
something about them.
 
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