Ok so I convinced my company to do the big switch to a new email provider that can do Exchange hosting, with the promise from the provider (SherWeb) and from Apple that we can have shared contacts & calendars on our iPhones and also have a SEPARATE personal list of contacts/calendar for each of us privately.
After installing the 2.0 firmware on the iPhone and doing the transfer to the new hosted Exchange server, I still have not figured out how to accomplish this. Enabling contact/calendar syncing with the Exchange account on the iPhone wipes out all of our personal contacts/calendar entries.
Here is what we need to happen:
1. There are 5 users in our small business. We have about 3,000 contacts in our client/vendor database that we all need to have access to both in Enourage and on the iPhone. Everyone needs to have permission to add/change contacts and have those changes be immediately updated on the server so everyone else can see it.
2. We need a public calendar that we all can see and make changes to from Entourage and our iPhones.
3. We each need to have our own individual personal contacts as a SEPARATE contact list, as Apple promised we would be able to do (preferably just the way it has been, using address book and manual syncing)
4. We all need to have our own individual personal calendars as a SEPARATE calendar, as Apple also promised we would be able to do.
Basically all I need to know is how to keep a private personal database of our own contacts/calendar, regardless of whether or not it is hosted (preferably keeping it just like it was, syncing manually using Address Book/iCal), as well as having access to a completely separate HOSTED contacts/calendar.
Please help!!!!! Apple, you promised me this was possible before I made the switch of email providers. Please don't get me fired!
After installing the 2.0 firmware on the iPhone and doing the transfer to the new hosted Exchange server, I still have not figured out how to accomplish this. Enabling contact/calendar syncing with the Exchange account on the iPhone wipes out all of our personal contacts/calendar entries.
Here is what we need to happen:
1. There are 5 users in our small business. We have about 3,000 contacts in our client/vendor database that we all need to have access to both in Enourage and on the iPhone. Everyone needs to have permission to add/change contacts and have those changes be immediately updated on the server so everyone else can see it.
2. We need a public calendar that we all can see and make changes to from Entourage and our iPhones.
3. We each need to have our own individual personal contacts as a SEPARATE contact list, as Apple promised we would be able to do (preferably just the way it has been, using address book and manual syncing)
4. We all need to have our own individual personal calendars as a SEPARATE calendar, as Apple also promised we would be able to do.
Basically all I need to know is how to keep a private personal database of our own contacts/calendar, regardless of whether or not it is hosted (preferably keeping it just like it was, syncing manually using Address Book/iCal), as well as having access to a completely separate HOSTED contacts/calendar.
Please help!!!!! Apple, you promised me this was possible before I made the switch of email providers. Please don't get me fired!