Advantages: DejaOffice is a landing pad for PC Outlook data on Android and iPhone. Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Memos, Attachments. Supports multiple devices and multiple PC's easily. After the initial sync, sync time is instant and automatic. Disadvantages: DejaCloud is a subscription service. Your purchase covers the first year, and after the first year it costs roughly $5 per month Steps:.
Install CompanionLink on your Mac. Install DejaOffice on your devices. Set DejaCloud sync, Real Time sync Setup Guides:. Advantages: Your PC Syncs to DejaCloud, DejaCloud connects to Google, and Google Syncs to your phone. This is a great choice if you require your Outlook for Mac data in Google Calendar and Contacts for other reasons.
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Outlook 2016 for Mac users who are part of the Office Insider Fast program will be the first to try this new feature. To become an Insider, simply open up Outlook, click Help > Check for Updates and then follow the directions found here. Not all Insiders will see the new Google Account experience right away. Sync Outlook Step. Download and install Google Calendar Sync from Google (see Resources). Provide your Google email address and password. Click on '2-way.' Specify how often you want to sync your calendars. Click 'Save.' Sync iCal Step. Launch iCal and click on the 'Preferences' menu.
CompanionLink for Google sync can be set automatically and will run in background on your PC. Disadvantages: Uses DejaCloud as a hub.
Direct Google Sync will be available in Winter 2016. Google Tasks do not go to many Android Phones, although Samsung is now supporting them. Steps:. Install CompanionLink on your PC. Set Google Sync. Set Auto-Sync, Timed or Manual Sync Setup Guides.
For a while now, I have been looking for a way to keep my iPhone calendar in sync with my work Microsoft Outlook calendar. Now I've found a way! Part 1: MobileMe, iCal, and iPhone: At home, I sync my iPhone calendar with iCal on my Mac.
Now with the new MobileMe, my iPhone stays in near constant sync with my MobileMe calendar. My Mac at home also stays in sync (syncs every 15 minutes) with my MobileMe calendar. Part 2: Spanning Sync - iCal and Google Calendar There is a program called that syncs iCal on my Mac with my Google calendar. This program also runs every 15 minutes. (The downside is that this program costs a whopping $65.) Part 3: Google Calendar Sync - Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Google has released, a program that syncs your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook.
This program also syncs every 15 minutes. Of course, these syncs aren't immediate, but now you don't have to enter your calendar items two or three times.
I know this all seems very complicated, but it works! If you've been looking for an Outlook/iPhone sync solution, give it a try and post your experiences (or alternative solutions) here. robg adds: I haven't tested this one. Before MobileMe debuted, we had to set up a Mac-using executive and his two Windows Outlook-using assistants with calendar sharing. The exeucutive already sync'd his iPhone calendar to his Macbook Pro.
So we set up a Google calendar. We installed Spanning Sync on his Mac (and in addition to the other comments about what you get for the price, you can use one Spanning Sync license to sync multiple Macs to the same Google calendar).
We installed a Windows app called SyncMyCal on the PCs. Now all three can update their personal calendars, sync certain calendar or all data to Google, and use Google as a bridge between them.
The upside is, Google can also be reached from other Macs or PCs that are not part of this setup. This is a topic of great interest to me. I've evaluated a similar setup.
I've run into two issues: 1. It's a termination offense to sync my corporate outlook calendar with an external server. Alas, this kind of rule is the norm in large corporations. We are permitted to sync with a local Palm or MobileMe device. I could sync my iPhone to work if I trusted Apple's Exchange/Outlook sync software (I don't trust it), but then of course I wouldn't be able to sync to my home iTunes library.
This is a big iPhone limitation for me; my Palm had the same problem. In my testing of Google's calendar sync it's always failed miserably. In the last test I found it failed to sync recurring appointments. I just don't trust Google to get this working, it's clear their heart isn't in this kind of work. I won't be doing further testing since I no longer use Outlook at home (switched to iCal, etc).
I'm not optimistic that we'll see a fix to this problem from Apple. There just aren't enough people who are demanding a solution, and corporations obviously aren't incented to help non-C suite employees deal with work/home calendar hassles. - John Faughnan [email protected] www.faughnan.com. ITunes lets you decide which tab you want to sync with which computer, it's not all or nothing. I sync (wirelessly) using ActiveSync (mostly works fine, some co-workers are having trouble with attachments in email), MobileMe (works fine, no issues), and a few other email-only accounts. I sync my media with my Mac at home. I like to check the 'manually manage music and videos' box on the summary tab in iTunes, but that's a personal preference.
I really like having my work and home contacts and calendars both on the device, but separate. With other devices, i had to put all of my personal contacts in my work address book. So far the best solution I've found is gcaldaemon. It's free and does everything locally. You don't have to worry about a third party and if they'll be around in five years. It's got a couple of issues with leopard still and you have to have some technical expertise above that of a small woodland creature (your grandmother isn't likely to be able to install/configure it). It's proof that it can be done the right way without robbing people for something that should be free.
It's calendar syncing. It's not rocket magic. My problem with this hint stems from using Entourage, which isn't compatible with MobileMe, on my work Mac in a PC environment. So to get my work calendar updates onto my iPhone, I have to set up an Exchange calendar on the phone. This syncs well enough and any events on the work Mac will show up on the iPhone. However, the iPhone sets up the Exchange calendar as a separate account from the MobileMe/iCal calendars.
So no sync is done, thus my home Mac does not show my Entourage/Exchange work calendar. That leads to my biggest problem with this hint. In order for the Outlook Google iCal sync to happen, I have to be using Outlook on a PC. For us Entourage users in a PC environment, there still seems to be no direct or indirect solution (yes, I've tried to CalDAV but that doesn't sync with the iPhone via MobileMe).:-( /. I was trying it out recently. The only catch for me was the fact that I was using MobileMe along with it. I was syncing two machines via MobileMe and then using Soocial to sync one of the Macs with Google and with Outlook 2003 on a work PC.
Seems like I constantly had sync conflicts popping up on my Mac because of mapping differences between Soocial and MobileMe. I decided to turn off Soocial and just hacked the iPod plist file to turn on Google sync in the Address Book. I'm trying that for now.
On the Outlook side of things I'm going to try syncing contacts using gSyncIt (which I'm already pleasantly using to sync my Google Calendars) or via GoogleSync on my BlackBerry.
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