Synchronize iCal with Exchange Calendar

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Synchronize iCal with Exchange Calendar

The answer may be somewhere else, but there are too many post to get through to find the answer.

Previous to Tiger, I had it where my iCal synchronized with my calendar in Exchange. Once I installed Tiger, I cannot find this option, and my iCal is not synchronizing any longer with my Exchange account. Everything else synchronizes just fine.

Where is the option to turn this back on? I've searched through the iCal prefs, Mail prefs, iSynch prefs, .Mac pref panel, etc., cannot find the option to turn this back on.

Posted on Sep 12, 2005 3:43 AM

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Answer 1

JimN

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Sep 12, 2005 7:39 PM in response to Dennis J. Hagner

Sorry Dennis to get your hopes up with my response but I too am looking for an Exchange Connector that is either a 3rd party plug-in or a patch from Apple that allows one to connect iCal to an Exchange Calendar. After all, Apple Mail has an Exchange Connector, Address Book has an Exchange Connector, the only thing missing is iCal.

Ever since having a lot of problems with Entourage exploding other applications and causing conflicts, I'm very hesitant to start using it. However, I really need that iCal/Exchange connector before I can start using my PowerBook more frequently. I'm subscribing to this post if anyone replies.

Thanks for posting the question.
Regards,
Jim Naeve
Murphy, TX.

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Answer 2

Oct 8, 2005 6:40 PM in response to JimN

Yeah, it's a real pain.

I had been using GroupCal but feel hesitant to use the 2.5beta - it would be be nice to know how far off 3.0 is.

What I have discovered with Apple Mail/iCal though is that the fault seems to be in how Apple Mail deals with the initial meeting request on the Exchange server. When you look in your Exchange Calendar folder in Apple Mail you get a URL that doesn't work. (I have just seen the note about Apple-[ so will try that soon)

What I do currently is get my outlook mail onto my PocketPC and either accept or give tentative acceptane to meeting requests. I then see the appropriate .ics files in the Calendar folder when viewing via Apple Mail and can click on the file to create the appropriate iCal event. This event then shows up correctly, as you would expect of an Outlook event including attendees and meeting status - which you can change in iCal.

There is something simple that Apple seems to be missing here.

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Answer 3

Nov 29, 2005 6:10 PM in response to John Holley NZ

Tiger users: do stay away from the GroupCal 2.5 beta ... I tried it, and through a somewhat complicated but by no means unreasonable sequence of events ... lost all my calendar info! Not what had in mind. Snerdware assures me the problem will be fixed in 4.0, not so helpful to me at the moment!

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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Answer 4

Nov 29, 2005 6:17 PM in response to John Holley NZ

Tiger users: do stay away from the GroupCal 2.5 beta ... I tried it, and through a somewhat complicated but by no means unreasonable sequence of events ... lost all my calendar info! Not what had in mind. Snerdware assures me the problem will be fixed in 4.0, not so helpful to me at the moment!

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