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But will Outlook 2011 sync?

Kingdaddy said:
Not only that, there are MANY other bugs in Outlook 2011. By far, it is the worst program out of Office 2011.

Don't get me wrong, I love Outlook, 2007 and 2010, but HATE 2011. :mad:

Microsoft blew it in many ways with that product. As a business user, it is really killing my productivity.

And why is it that Outlook Contacts, MobileMe, and Address book can't all sync nicely? I always have problems with my data moving around and getting screwed up. So much so I had to cancel Outlook sync. Apple support told me they are not supporting 2011 yet.
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I am willing to bet you don't know what you are talking about?

The dumbest part about this whole thread is you guys are making the iCal problem out to be a deal breaker. My god you guys are pathetic.

I see it I know thats a small bump in the road I get it! But it's not a deal breaker compared to the features you are getting in return.

I love my Mobile Me email to death. But my iPhone 4 is syncing with Outlook 2011 with ease. Except for the Calendar which is not a huge problem at all. Everything else is working as it should including contacts.
Office 2011 is leaps and bounds better than anything Microsoft has ever released for Mac thus far. I have googled everything I could about Mac office 2011 and read every review out there.

After a few weeks of reading and thinking it over I decided to download the trial.

Everything you said I am willing to bet you are trolling at best and have not tried office 2011 yet.

Even old features from old office builds have returned for this Mac edition. I am stunned at the old features that made there way back. Stuff from 2003 office for PC is in here.

Anyway try it for yourself if you don't believe me. If you had tried it your post wouldn't be written in that way.
 
Alx9876 said:
The dumbest part about this whole thread is you guys are making the iCal problem out to be a deal breaker. My god you guys are pathetic.

I see it I know thats a small bump in the road I get it! But it's not a deal breaker compared to the features you are getting in return.
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I hate to say it but it is turning out to be a deal breaker. I am a recent "mac only" convert but have plenty of history with apple. iCal blows for anything more than simple personal use. It has no business/professional reliability. The alarms are horrible and can not be trusted. I rely heavily on being reminded of things these days. I wish I did not have to look to MS for a solution but I am anxious to retry outlook when this patch comes out. iCal has caused me many headaches that outlook never did. Yes I am blaming software on my lifes problems ;-).

I google search iCal alarms everyday hoping to find something new or a possible fix to the alarms problems and inconsistencies.
 
Javalog said:
iCal blows for anything more than simple personal use. It has no business/professional reliability. The alarms are horrible and can not be trusted. I rely heavily on being reminded of things these days.
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I have a recurring meeting every Friday. So last Friday I called into the conference line and my client asked if I'd also logged into the WebEx yet. I said I hadn't...the meeting announcement he sent earlier didn't contain the information. So my client sends me an email with an updated meeting announcement containing the WebEx info. The announcement came as an email attachment, a .ico file (my client uses Outlook on a PC). When I tried to add it to my calendar it couldn't sync with MobileMe and I had the choice of "Revert to Server" which removed the calendar entry or "Go Offline."

Afterwards, I spent more than an hour on the phone with an Apple engineer who was able to reproduce the problem. It turns out, that if someone sends a recurring meeting announcement as an attachment and they've included a reminder alarm as part of the calendar entry, iCal chokes. Until a fix is developed the only solution is to have the client resend the calendar entry without a reminder alarm. This seems pretty basic - a recurring meeting with a reminder!?! iCal doesn't seem business-ready to me.
 
Michael73 said:
It turns out, that if someone sends a recurring meeting announcement as an attachment and they've included a reminder alarm as part of the calendar entry, iCal chokes. Until a fix is developed the only solution is to have the client resend the calendar entry without a reminder alarm. This seems pretty basic - a recurring meeting with a reminder!?! iCal doesn't seem business-ready to me.
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iCal chokes on a lot more areas than the one you described. simple reminders for recurring events that I enter manually do not work. I unfortunately cannot find the pattern for the problems though. I thought it had something to do with using snooze, which I actually never use. Then I thought it had something to do only recurring events, not the case. I have been unable to reproduce it every time. If I could then I would avoid whatever it is that throws iCal for a loop. As of now there is no other option for a calendar/reminders/alarms other than iCal? I do not want to use an online calendar such as google.
 
Calendar sync

Install SP1 for Office 2011 and OUTLOOK now syncs with ical and iphone.

on iphone need to select calendar group rather than select all which doesnt appear to work.

Other than that works fine for me both ways.
 
hitcomp said:
Install SP1 for Office 2011 and OUTLOOK now syncs with ical and iphone.

on iphone need to select calendar group rather than select all which doesnt appear to work.

Other than that works fine for me both ways.
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Alas, not for me.

1. Sync Services appears to sync the Outlook 2011 cal to iCal (on my mac, forget about MobileMe), but if I delete an item on Outlook it isn't deleted from iCal and eventually reappears in my Outlook calendar.

2. iTunes has been trying to sync my ipad with iCal (selected by group as you suggest) for over 14 hours.

The sad reality, in my view, is that Apple's implementation of Sync is not usable unless you're exclusively using iCal, Mail and Address Book. For those of us in an enterprise environment, that's just not possible. The only sync option that works for me is via Google Calendar Sync. This means running Google Calendar Sync in the background on a PC (real or virtual). Ridiculously clunky, but it works (mostly). Given the explosion if iOS devices in the enterprise, I'm praying that Apple abandons the iCal centric approach to sync and develops a workable solution.
 
call-151 said:
Agreed, but I think Apple owns this one, not Microsoft.
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Disagree. Microsoft needs to build in CalDAV support. Simple as that.

CalDAV will insure compatibility with MobileMe and Google calendaring systems among others.

I don't know why they opted to go the Sync Services route :confused:
 
Well I bailed on Outlook calendar, seems the freaking thing doesn't even support calendar subscriptions either in or out. Total crap from MS and totally typical of them. Charge a lot of money for something that is buggy out of the gate and doesn't support even the most basic of needs and issue a service pack with all the pomp and circumstance that falls suitably as short as the original release. A contact and schedule management app that doesn't support the outside world is just a$$ IMHO.

Oh and it doesn't auto archive your old mail, you can only manually export your messages, no way to set up an easy archive or back up and it doesn't archive to the universal Outlook PST format (although it can read them) it uses a proprietary Mac only .olm format.

I will not be buying the next iteration of MS Office for Mac, I'm done.
 
marc11 said:
Well I bailed on Outlook calendar, seems the freaking thing doesn't even support calendar subscriptions either in or out. Total crap from MS and totally typical of them. Charge a lot of money for something that is buggy out of the gate and doesn't support even the most basic of needs and issue a service pack with all the pomp and circumstance that falls suitably as short as the original release. A contact and schedule management app that doesn't support the outside world is just a$$ IMHO.

Oh and it doesn't auto archive your old mail, you can only manually export your messages, no way to set up an easy archive or back up and it doesn't archive to the universal Outlook PST format (although it can read them) it uses a proprietary Mac only .olm format.

I will not be buying the next iteration of MS Office for Mac, I'm done.
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Have you tried installing the SP1 Update? I have just downloaded it, but it's saying I don't have the needed software to install it
 
Michael73 said:
Disagree. Microsoft needs to build in CalDAV support. Simple as that.

CalDAV will insure compatibility with MobileMe and Google calendaring systems among others.

I don't know why they opted to go the Sync Services route :confused:
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OK, point taken and I agree. But Apple's implementation of syncing (via MobileMe or iTunes) has never been elegant. Despite getting my Outlook calendar into iCal with Sync Services, I simply cannot get it onto my iPad. iTunes says it's syncing, and 14 hours later it still says it's syncing, but it's not.
 
Will iCloud ease my pain?

I know that iCloud won't debut for awhile but I guess now the question is, will Office sync with apple's latest cloud computing initiative? My guess is that like Google's suite of products, iCloud will use CalDAV and I'll still be up a creek and not able to transition to Outlook.

Any bets on whether Microsoft will push an update to let Outlook sync calendars, contacts, to do's and emails with iCloud/MobileMe by the 1 year mark of Office '11's release? I'm betting "no" and that's disappointing :(
 
Hah!

Part of the problem is many companies are still running their exchange server farms on Exchange 2003 or earlier - primarily because the economy tanked and nobody wants to spend a fortune to upgrade at this point in time.

So yeah, it's really Microsofts' fault - they COULD make it compatible with older version of exchange but they elect not to. Probably for the same reason that Apple won't bother to bring Rosetta to Lion - leaving that backwards compatible b.s. is the way forward.

So sometimes it's a matter of "It's not really microsofts' fault here, but your company for not upgrading!".

I keep hearing we're going to upgrade next year when budgets are better and they put another forest together for our entire central region of our company.
 
How often does iCal sync with Outlook calendar?

Hello,
I'm new to mac and sync but as I understand everything has to go through iCal and then to Outlook when I sync with iSync?

I have the sp1 upgrade installed and therefore should be able to sync my calender in Outlook to. I have done a sync and data came into Outlook but it seems as it took forever and the result is very random. If I add a meeting in Outlook 2011 calender it doesn't appear in either iCal or in my mobile phone I sync with.

What is wrong? :confused:
 
After the update I can't seem to sync contacts with outlook anymore. When I go under preferences then to sync services there's no options to sync with anything. Anyone no what's the issue?
 
Outlook for Mac was promising, but its continuing inability effectively to sync with either iCal or Google Calendar is a deal-breaker. The advertised "fix" via SP1 was a cruel joke.

I have wanted to migrate routine office tasks (Word, PowerPoint, email/calendar function, Adobe Acrobat) to the Mac side of my MacBook Pro (also run Vista on it), but none of the software works well together. And I still need the Vista side to run proprietary software that is Windows-only. So a goodbye to Mac. My next computer won't be a Mac, since trying to figure out the Mac stuff is wasting way too much of my time.
 
MaxBuck said:
Outlook for Mac was promising, but its continuing inability effectively to sync with either iCal or Google Calendar is a deal-breaker. The advertised "fix" via SP1 was a cruel joke.

I have wanted to migrate routine office tasks (Word, PowerPoint, email/calendar function, Adobe Acrobat) to the Mac side of my MacBook Pro (also run Vista on it), but none of the software works well together. And I still need the Vista side to run proprietary software that is Windows-only. So a goodbye to Mac. My next computer won't be a Mac, since trying to figure out the Mac stuff is wasting way too much of my time.
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Don't blame the Mac for Outlook's inability to sync and work like the Windows version. That is a Microsoft issue. I loved Outlook on my Windows PC, especially after I addeed Plan Plus for Outlook from Franklin Covey, but I loved the Mac even more, so when I got a Mac, I tried Outlook 2011. Although pretty and all, it did not sync to iCal, or even my iPhone through MobileMe. The deal breaker was with Outlook itself. When I bought Office I bought the Home & Student Version without Outlook. As far as mail calendar and tasks go, everything is working and syncing perfectly with the iPhone and iPad and I use the native mail program, iCal and OmniFocus for tasks.

If Microsoft would get their heads out of butts and make Outlook work correctly I think they would have a hit in the Mac community. But when it comes to Mac applications they always screw them up or hold out features. It's a shame when in actuality Word, Excel and PowerPoint were applications originally written for the Mac and were then ported to Windows after Windows 3 came out. Before that they were the 3 top selling apps on the Mac.
 
Sync iPhone iPad with OutlookMac 2011

Exchange Mail is the most effective and seamless way to sync Mobiles and Tablets with Outlook. Take a look at the solutions by trioSync. It is a hosted Kerio Exchange Mail with ActiveSync, adaptable by any user on any domain. Unlike other hosted Exchange mails, triosync is a port and use exchange mail box, that does not require any changes to your Email, Domain or Server settings. Simple, safe and easy to setup. Once setup, it will help you sync all Outlook data, other than Tasks, with all devices.
 
Outlook 2011 not syncing with Address Book using Lion

Frustrated is the only word I can think of! I have wasted an entire 24 hours on this problem and have done much troubleshooting including deleting my all of my Address Book Contacts and then reimporting them from Outlook. This updated the address and got rid of the duplicate problem. I have shut off ICloud and reregistered......that fixed everything in Address Book. I can update addresses in ICloud and they sync with iPhone and my Mac on Address Book but NOT on Outlook and I can make changes in Address Book and they update on iCloud and iPhone but NOT Outlook. Changes in Outlook do not get updated anywhere!!! Problem: Outlook is not syncing with Address Book on my Macbook! I have tried turning off and on syncing in Outlook, closed Outlook restarted my Macbook. Disabled syncing services in the banner......don't even know what that is since no ISync with Lion! Anyone got any suggestions???
 
tamanacoblue said:
Frustrated is the only word I can think of! I have wasted an entire 24 hours on this problem and have done much troubleshooting including deleting my all of my Address Book Contacts and then reimporting them from Outlook. This updated the address and got rid of the duplicate problem. I have shut off ICloud and reregistered......that fixed everything in Address Book. I can update addresses in ICloud and they sync with iPhone and my Mac on Address Book but NOT on Outlook and I can make changes in Address Book and they update on iCloud and iPhone but NOT Outlook. Changes in Outlook do not get updated anywhere!!! Problem: Outlook is not syncing with Address Book on my Macbook! I have tried turning off and on syncing in Outlook, closed Outlook restarted my Macbook. Disabled syncing services in the banner......don't even know what that is since no ISync with Lion! Anyone got any suggestions???
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Sorry I have no help for you since I am suffering the EXACT same issue. Don't know if it is the fact that iSync was removed from Lion or that Mac Office is messed up. I do know I have spent a week browsing the internet and have tried all the "fixes" I found. None have worked.
 
Outlook 2011 sync "merges" only. I suggest that you turn off Sync Services then export from Outlook and Apple applications before you turn back on. Select one app or device to clean up as source then delete data in all others (you did make a backup??). Turn on Sync Services on one item at a time.

Delete these files in your User’s Library/Preferences folder:

com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
com.microsoft.SyncservicesAgent.plist

Also in the User's Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011 folder delete OfficeSync Prefs

You'll need to restart after deleting prefs.

I also suggest that you re-index your Spotlight cache files. All lists like contacts, events, notes etc. in Outlook are generated by the Spotlight searches.

HOW TO RE-INDEX FOLDERS OR VOLUMES

From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.

* Click Spotlight.
* Make sure Mail Messages is checked under the Search Results tab.
* Click the Privacy tab.
* Drag entire volume (your hard drive) to the list.
* Remove the volume you just added.
* Spotlight will re-index the contents of the item you initially dragged to the list.

Depending on your Mac and the contents of its hard disk, re-indexing may take several hours to days. Until this process is finished, Spotlight won’t know the contents of your disks and neither will Outlook.
 
i don't know if it will offer SYNC services like Entourage but I have always found that works flawlessly. The phone syncs with ICal and Address book and they automatically sync with Entourage. It is certainly seemless to me.

I never open ICal or address book and to all intents and purposes the phone is syncing with entourage.
 
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