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Can I set up an exchange account to work with my gmail? I'm trying to find a way to make my outlook for mac contacts and calendar get sync'd to my iphone.

BobRocks wrote:

Can I set up an exchange account to work with my gmail? I'm trying to find a way to make my outlook for mac contacts and calendar get sync'd to my iphone.

Yes, you can use MS Exchange to collect Gmail if you want

Exchange requires a domain and there is no way to point a gmail email address to Exchange AFAIK. I'm not sure about forwarding.

You can however, use the default Exchange domain "onmicrosoft.com". Rather than use it to send emails, you continue to use Gmail as IMAP but you store your contacts and calendars on Exchange.

You do get 50GB of storage so you can keep any "On My Computer" data on the Exchange. This way if Outlook's Identity gets corrupted, everything is on a server and you simply create a new Identity and let everything download again.

Exchange requires a domain and there is no way to point a gmail email address to Exchange AFAIK. I'm not sure about forwarding.

Yes, not quite sure what happened there 😕, I probably meant to go on with forwarding, and forgot to.

I have used Exchange connectors to collect mail from Google Apps accounts (still needs a functioning Exchange Server though), I must be getting old.

I have used Exchange connectors to collect mail from Google Apps accounts (still needs a functioning Exchange Server though), I must be getting old.

Getting old is better than the alternative. 😝

OK

MAYBE this will help people. You need to set up your OWN SERVER.

I honestly did not read the whole thread. But I skimmed through it. I have No CLUE if this will help sync Outlook Contacts to iCal, HOWEVER this will sync all your devices (Apple) to your iCal / Contacts (Address Book) WITHOUT iCLOUD.

OS X Mavericks Server is a $20 download in the App Store. It allows you to make any computer running Mavericks into a server. Apple has forced the the user to now be a server for himself. If the consumer is concerned about privacy they can always be there own host. It is very nice and easy to set up.

Here is a link to a nice walk through. This guy named Todd Olthoff is very good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVfEicYfMTE

Software allows to connect to as many devices/computers/users as you want. Only $20. Limited only by what hardware you are using for the server.

Obviously the more RAM the better. and adding External Hard Drives for memory is good. and of course never turn off your computer. Add user profiles that can be logged into from anywhere just like the big boys.

Version 3.0 -for you bit hunters out there. They also have OS X Server for past OS versions but I do not now how user friendly they are. Todd has tutorials on them as well.

So $20 bucks and maybe an Apple Airport Express Router just to guarantee simplicity of setup. Router is probably better than any router your Broadband company has provided you AND you can use the extra older router as a Repeater for extended coverage for our big backyard. 😉

I have a free solution which was spawned by jappas' post on Oct 28, 2013 7:16 PM.

My problem was that I had all my calendar appointments in my Samsung Galaxy S4 in Splanner and I wanted to get them into my new iMac 27 with OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks).

I also have an Intel Core i3 PC with Windoze 7 Professional on it, which I use Kies (version 3.2) to backup the Samsung up.

Right then, I connected my Samsung to the PC via usb, ran up the Kies program which connected to the phone.

Making sure that the "Galaxy S4" under "Connected Devices" was highlighted, I selected the second tab called "Sync" and checked the box marked

"Sync Calendar with Outlook" and the radio button "All Schedules". I also did the same with "Sync Tasks with Outlook" and "All To Do" and then pressed the "Sync" button in the top right hand corner. Like magic all my calendar events now appeared in my Outlook 2010 version 14.0.7128.5000.

I now followed jappas' setup steps 1,2,3 (except I don't have an iphone), and testing steps 1,2,3 (again except iphone bit) which all worked fine.

I didn't understand the next bit cos how can you drop a meeting in Outlook (PC) onto the iCal icon in the application dock (iMac) ??????

So I moved on and tried dragging Outlook meetings onto the PC desktop, but this only created ".msg" files which the iMac Mail application did not understand.

Now I was stumped again .... but then I had an idea !!. What if I used the "Home" tab in Outlook Calendar and selected "E-mail Calendar" from the "Share" bit of the menu bar. This creates an Untitled - Message (HTML) email with a dialog box over the top called "Send a Calendar via E-mail".

In this dialog box leave "Calendar:" as Calendar, make "Date Range:" "specify dates..." and put in a maximum of 10 years date range, i.e. I used

"Thu 02/10/2014" to "Tue 01/10/2024". For "Detail:" choose "Full details" and for "Advanced:" click on "Show>>" and tick both include boxes.

For "E-mail Layout:" choose "Daily Schedule". Click on "OK" and wait for a while ....

Now the dialog box goes away and you are left with the empty My Calendar - Message (HTML) email. Don't bother sending it, just right click on "My Calendar.ics(xx KB)" in the "Attached:" field of the email, and "Save As ..." to your hard disk on the PC (say C:\Temp). Now, because my PC and iMac are on the same wireless network, I have set them up to be able to see each other. So on the iMac now, choose menu File, Import, Import and navigate to C:\Temp on the PC, select "My Calendar.ics" and click the Import button.

Hey presto !!! all the calendar events are in iMac Mail.

No need for iCloud, Exchange accounts or servers and NO COST !!.

Hope this helps someone else, and thanks to jappas for the inspiration 🙂

Cheers,

Nick.

could you explain how to do this?