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Authored by: tinpan on Mar 31, '06 09:19:37AM

You imply that Entourage syncs to a calendar within iCal, not to everything in iCal. Is that true? Does it keep your personal calendars out of Entourage?

I started to do the sync, but Entourage's help is unclear about what is synced. I don't want my personal iCal items in my work Entourage calendar and didn't want to spend the time cleaning it up if it didn't do what I want. I just want a "Work" or "Entourage" calendar in iCal that's synced to Entourage so my work calendar gets into my phone.

BTW: How does it handle alarms? Do I get one alarm on the computer or two? I can live with multiple alarms, but you'd think they'd have it worked out by now. It seems obvious that there should be only one alarm. If two apps are synced, only the one you choose as the master should alarm and if you're by your computer, logged in and it's going to alarm, the phone should not alarm.



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Alarming redundancy
Authored by: gerwitz on Mar 31, '06 10:31:03AM

When I set this up I had my iPod, Treo, iCal, and Entourage, and Outlook on a PC all beeping at once.

I settled on iCal and the Treo as my notification points. In Entourage you can disable Office notifications in its preferences. I do have to ensure a sync runs often enough, but it's been fluid.



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It creates an "Entourage" calendar in iCal
Authored by: innate on Mar 31, '06 11:46:37AM

It creates an iCal calendar called "Entourage". Anything in that calendar is synced, anything not in that calendar is not synced.

Yes, you get multiple alarms. Of course it's trivial to turn off the alarms in Entourage -- just click "Turn Off Office Notifications" in the Entourage application menu.

Note that it uses Apple's Sync Services so there is no user interface other than the checkbox in Entourage. All the syncing happens automatically and, as far as I can tell, immediately.



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Syncing is NOT immediate!
Authored by: googoo on Mar 31, '06 12:12:40PM

I have just done some testing on the immediacy of the syncing between iCal and Entourage. I found that if I modified, deleted, or created an iCal event immediately before quitting iCal, the change would not show up on Entourage until I restarted iCal. I ran some more tests with iCal events and discovered that iCal seems to check in with SyncServices every 15 seconds. As far as I can tell, the 15-second interval starts when iCal starts. The bottom line is that if you quit iCal before it registers your modification with SyncServices, then Entourage will not get the change (nor should any other SyncServices-dependent item). To be safe, wait 15 seconds after a change before quitting. (You would think that iCal would run one last sync when quitting!)

-Mark



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It creates an "Entourage" calendar in iCal
Authored by: chazzzzy on Apr 12, '06 08:17:02AM

Actually I just noticed this morning.. if I create an item in iCal (Entourage Calendar of course) and add an alarm, the alarm DOES NOT sync over to Entourage! This is MAJOR for me, as my exchange account syncs with my blackberry.

Alarms sync the other way, but not if I create it on iCal. Can you guys see if it does the same for you?



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