iCal & Address Book to Outlook 2003
At home, I use iCal and Address Book. This is where I manage my calendar, contacts, etc. I sync it all to .Mac and my iPhone.
At work, I use Outlook 2003. However, it is a government Exchange server, and thus it cannot be accessed from home other than through webmail.
Thus, I'm in a bind. I manage my information in iCal and Address Book, but need to also be able to--at minimum--view that data in Outlook 2003 from my government system. The ability to write or syncronize data from Outlook is definitely important, but not nearly as crucial as at least being able to view the data.
Right now, I can view my data through my iPhone, but that's not a very comfortable or flexible approach when working in the office. Also, government networks are restricted from accessing many outside services, so viewing through .Mac's web UI is also not an option.
If I export from iCal, I get a .ICS file. Is there any way -- even manually -- to get this imported into Outlook 2003?
2003 cannot subscribe to an iCal, and as best I can figure out right now, it can't import a .ICS file either.
Of course, government computers cannot have 3rd party software installed, so I have to have a way of doing this with standard Microsoft Office Professional, or a Web-based application that can generate and download to me any files necessary for importing.
I thought of having iCal and Microsoft Entourage (also on my home system) sync that data, and doing the export from Entourage -- presuming of course that Entourage and Outlook would speak nicely with each other. Big assumption I guess. I just realized that an export from Entourage uses the .RGE format -- not the .PST that Outlook uses. So I can't even do THAT to then import into Outlook either.
Unless anyone has some other suggestions, I would guess there's nothing I can do until the government systems are upgraded to Outlook 2007, which if I hear correctly, can subscribe to an iCalendar feed (minus to-do's, etc.)
Am I up the creek on this one?
dt
At work, I use Outlook 2003. However, it is a government Exchange server, and thus it cannot be accessed from home other than through webmail.
Thus, I'm in a bind. I manage my information in iCal and Address Book, but need to also be able to--at minimum--view that data in Outlook 2003 from my government system. The ability to write or syncronize data from Outlook is definitely important, but not nearly as crucial as at least being able to view the data.
Right now, I can view my data through my iPhone, but that's not a very comfortable or flexible approach when working in the office. Also, government networks are restricted from accessing many outside services, so viewing through .Mac's web UI is also not an option.
If I export from iCal, I get a .ICS file. Is there any way -- even manually -- to get this imported into Outlook 2003?
2003 cannot subscribe to an iCal, and as best I can figure out right now, it can't import a .ICS file either.
Of course, government computers cannot have 3rd party software installed, so I have to have a way of doing this with standard Microsoft Office Professional, or a Web-based application that can generate and download to me any files necessary for importing.
I thought of having iCal and Microsoft Entourage (also on my home system) sync that data, and doing the export from Entourage -- presuming of course that Entourage and Outlook would speak nicely with each other. Big assumption I guess. I just realized that an export from Entourage uses the .RGE format -- not the .PST that Outlook uses. So I can't even do THAT to then import into Outlook either.
Unless anyone has some other suggestions, I would guess there's nothing I can do until the government systems are upgraded to Outlook 2007, which if I hear correctly, can subscribe to an iCalendar feed (minus to-do's, etc.)
Am I up the creek on this one?
dt
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