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Adam Bailey
Art Shotwell said:
Yes, we're lucky to have some input from Microsoft folks on some topics, but
we don't count on it or rely on it. This is a peer support forum.
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Yes, we're lucky to have some input from Microsoft folks on some topics, but
we don't count on it or rely on it. This is a peer support forum.
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
Art Shotwell said:I'd swear that I've seen posts from someone with a microsoft.com email
address.
Some of them are bogus, and sometime, some people from the MacBU do
post, but it's a fairly rare event (especially in the Entourage group).
Corentin
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Art Shotwell
Some of them are bogus, and sometime, some people from the MacBU do
post, but it's a fairly rare event (especially in the Entourage group).
Corentin
And, I don't expect them to post. But, I sure do hope they're lurking. It
does seem to me that Entourage 2008 is a step backward in some features. It
certainly doesn't measure up to Lotus Organizer which I used for at least
ten years when I was using Windows. In that sense, at least for me,
Entourage 2008 is a big step backward.
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LKMD
Entourage to ical to iphone does work. Iphone to ical works, BUT then Entourage syncs with ical and erases all changes to ical that the iphone made.
Any TRICKS OR IDEAS OR IS THIS A BUG....LKMD
Any TRICKS OR IDEAS OR IS THIS A BUG....LKMD
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Diane Ross
Entourage to ical to iphone does work. Iphone to ical works, BUT then
Entourage syncs with ical and erases all changes to ical that the iphone made.
Leopard bug:
When syncing calendars on Leopard using any sync software it's possible for
the iCal sync program ("iCalExternalSync") to get confused and stop syncing.
The primary symptom of this bug is that updated events stop appearing in
iCal, but continue to show up in other synchronized devices and
applications.
For example, if you use Spanning Sync to sync Google Calendar with iCal and
also use iTunes to sync iCal with your iPhone, events from Google Calendar
will sync to your iPhone but not to iCal. The bug is fairly rare but can
affect any user at any time. And when it does strike, it continues to
happen, making it appear that nothing is syncing to iCal at all.
This bug is more likely to happen when you've enabled the "Show Birthdays
calendar" option in your iCal preferences. If you are affected by this bug,
you may be able to solve the problem simply by disabling this option in
iCal. Note that once you do so, you'll still need to "reset info on this
computer" in the Spanning Sync pref pane in order to force events to
re-sync.
Another fix (although potentially only temporary), is to reset Apple Sync
Services:
€ Open iSync (in /Applications)
€ Select Preferences from the iSync menu
€ Click "Reset Sync History..."
€ Wait for the reset to finish
€ Try syncing again
<http://blog.spanningsync.com/2008/01/update-on-the-l.html>
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Corentin Cras-Méneur
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Kerry
If you are using iCal now you should follow this routine.
1) Go to preferences and check on sync for iCal (use the merge option) close Entourage and restart it.
2) Create a calendar event in Entourage
3) Wait for it to sync with iCal (go to iCal and await its appearance).
4) Go to EVERY event in iCal that you want to go to Entourage and reclassify it as being on this new Entourage calandar.
5) Wait for them to show up on Entourage.
I tried the merge option but I couldn't get a reliable two way sync
from my Palm through to Entourage and sometimes back. I find the
overwrite option Entourage overwrites iCal works fine. The problem I
have noticed since I got Entourage 08 on Jan 15 08 is that sync
services will eventually muck up after a period of use. To get it
working again involved a lot of frigging around but now I've got all
the steps down pat and know exactly what to do when this happens. But
unlike the conduit, which was reliable and fast, if it did muck up,
which was rarely it was easy to fix by doing an overwrite of all
Entourage modules to the Palm which fixed everything in sync services
and thus displayed everything correctly in iCal.
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Kerry
You can sync your Blackberry using either Missing Sync and/or PocketMac.
-Andy
I think people are having a better time of it using Missing sync
rather than PocketMac.
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Kerry
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 tohave that functionality in Office 2008 and with all the work that went intothe 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.
I think the concept of identities and switching identies might be
their answer in Entourage. You can have as many identities as you want
but I just have my main identity then an archival identity to archive
items that I really never look at but might want to down the line.
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Brad Parham
On a slightly different note, what are the chances that Entourage will gain the ability to at least download calendars from google? This is perhaps the one feature that I like best about ical and has been the biggest hang-up from switching entirely.
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kanenwis
So in order to import your calender from ical to entourage you need to put all of your appointments in the "entourage" calender in ical. The easiest way to do this is to export your ical "home" file to your desktop. Then import it using ical again to your "entourage" file in ical.
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David
I've not read the whole of this thread, so sorry if someone has already highlighted this.
I've been using a collection of useful apple scripts over the past four years which allow me to sync my calendars. originally written for Office X 2004 it still appears to work in 2008 (Phew)
<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/syncentourageical2tiger2.0.9.html>
I've been using a collection of useful apple scripts over the past four years which allow me to sync my calendars. originally written for Office X 2004 it still appears to work in 2008 (Phew)
<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/syncentourageical2tiger2.0.9.html>
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blogamemnon
I have found a solution for Exchange/iCal/Entourage 2008/iPhone sync problems and *The fix works by hitting Send/Receive in Entourage before syncing to iTunes/iPhone and having Entourage completely shut down when bringing in new calendar events from iPhone. For further explanation go to my blog post in typepad and search for blogamemnon (the name of my first new blog). The only limitation I have found is calendar events must always be deleted from Entourage or Exchange.
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Gabster
Apple has just released 10.5.2, with loads of bug fixes, it will be interesting if they have sorted out the issue with sync service, anyone tried it yet?
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Art Shotwell
Apple has just released 10.5.2, with loads of bug fixes, it will be
interesting if they have sorted out the issue with sync service, anyone tried
it yet?
Somehow the recurring events I have in Entourage 2008 doubled. Just the
recurring events, birthdays and holidays. And...I got a notice that another
50 needed to be resolved and synced. I can¹t figure out where the duplicate
recurring events came from. I just shut off Entourage syncing. This is just
too much of a mess. My wife, watching all this, has decided not to upgrade
to Office2008.
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Art Shotwell
I should have said that these changes came AFTER I ran the 10.5.2 update.
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Gabster
I still cant belive we have had no work from Microsoft about this...even for them to offer advice on what to do in the interim....very bad play by them...so much hype around the software (it only took 4 years!) and then now, not a word from them...
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Gabster
Ok, I just did the update and the same thing happened to me (although I have resorted back to Office 2004 for Entourage) Could that mean that they have played with something with the Sync Services? Anyone been able to test it out?
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Anthony Warn
Got it working using lepoard (latest update) and Office 2008.
Took a bit of mucking around to understand the logic (?) as I was migrating
from iCal because my XP/Outlook colleagues (and better half) could not do
much with my meeting invitations. Seems in hindsight my main problem was not
properly reassignaing all my iCal appointments to the ³entourage² calendar
in iCal. It took a couple of sync¹s and to settle down as I already had
stuff synced to .mac but it was mostly sorting out duplicates.
Took a bit of mucking around to understand the logic (?) as I was migrating
from iCal because my XP/Outlook colleagues (and better half) could not do
much with my meeting invitations. Seems in hindsight my main problem was not
properly reassignaing all my iCal appointments to the ³entourage² calendar
in iCal. It took a couple of sync¹s and to settle down as I already had
stuff synced to .mac but it was mostly sorting out duplicates.
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Kristen
I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. I'm just starting to use Office 2008, and want to make sure it's really not working, and not an error on my part.
I've gone into Entourage Preferences, Sync Services, and asked it to sync with iCal. When I open iCal there are three calendars, "untitled", "unfiled" and "Entourage". It looks like all of the events are on all three calendars as of when I set up the syncing, but nothing has changed since.
Is there some something I need to do to trigger it to send or refresh the new Entourage items over to iCal? Or is that the part I'm reading a lot of posts about being broken?
(From there I can't get iSync to put anything on my Palm Pilot either. But if this first step isn't working, there's no point in trying to get that second part of the process resolved.)
I've gone into Entourage Preferences, Sync Services, and asked it to sync with iCal. When I open iCal there are three calendars, "untitled", "unfiled" and "Entourage". It looks like all of the events are on all three calendars as of when I set up the syncing, but nothing has changed since.
Is there some something I need to do to trigger it to send or refresh the new Entourage items over to iCal? Or is that the part I'm reading a lot of posts about being broken?
(From there I can't get iSync to put anything on my Palm Pilot either. But if this first step isn't working, there's no point in trying to get that second part of the process resolved.)