Outlook Calendar & MobileMe?

[rebby]

I think that I may already know the answer in this case but my searches are coming up with conflicting answers.

What I would like to do is a sync a copy of my Outlook calendar (work, connected to Exchange) to MobileMe/iPhone. This copy can be read only as I have no desire to edit my calendar w/anything but Outlook. I don't care if the sync is done only when I have my work PC running. I'm not looking for real time updates, I'd just like to have a reasonable view of my work calendar on my phone.

Connecting my iPhone to Exchange is not an option, my company will not allow this (unless I'm willing to use a Windows based phone). Bouncing my calendar through another service like gmail would be acceptable if required. I'd rather not manually sync via a cable if possible.

From what I can tell, the older version of the Windows MobileMe software would allow this but 1.2 will not. Are there any options here for a (potentially) new user of MobileMe? What about circumventing MobileMe altogether and just sending it to the iPhone in some way?

Thanks for your help on this matter.

 

[rebby]

Update: Syncing my Outlook Calendar with Google turned out to be pretty trivial (http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955). Now, I just need to figure out how to sync (or subscribe?) my Google calendar w/MobileMe...

 

[alFR]

Why don't you just copy the settings for Exchange from a colleague's WM phone and just set up your iPhone to use it yourself? I can't imagine anyone will notice, since it connects with ActiveSync just like a WM phone does....

 

[rebby]

Why don't you just copy the settings for Exchange from a colleague's WM phone and just set up your iPhone to use it yourself? I can't imagine anyone will notice, since it connects with ActiveSync just like a WM phone does....

I'll likely do this for email but, based on a few reviews that I've read (specifically here -> http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/07/22/colored-iphone-exchange-calendars/), Exchange has very poor multiple calendar support. I've been very happy w/the multiple calendar integration in iCal and would like to keep this functionality if possible.

Now that I have my Outlook calendar sync'd with my gmail calendar this may be as easy as using BusySync to take care of syncing my gmail calendar w/iCal. Sure, I lose real time updates but that may be acceptable. I'll have to play with this more over the next few weeks to find the best solution for me.

Thanks.