outlook to entourage calendar

You'll need something in common such as an Exchange server or a PDA.

You can find several hosted Exchange services online with reasonable pricing. I suggest this method because you synchronize each of your machines to a common location rather than using something to transfer the information between machines. This page on Microsoft's website lists some of their recommended service providers but it's not all inclusive <http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/catalog.aspx>.

While you can use a PDA to synchronize the two systems, I strongly don't recommend doing this. Outlook, Entourage and whichever PDA is used won't treat all related fields the same way and you may lose information in some of the more obscure fields.

Hope this helps! bill

1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If you do go the route as bill suggested of using an exchange server I'd recommend the folks at 1and1.com. It's only $7 a month, you can get your own domain, and they're reliable.

To my knowledge, no software exists to syncrhonize and keep synchronize Entourage and Outlook items. Therefore you need something in the middle. That something will either have to be a server or some device such as a PDA that both applications can talk to. Again, I don't suggest the PDA method because I feel it can be prone to data loss (and in the case of calendar items I would include multiple duplications of events and loss of events).

You may be able to find an online solution such as Yahoo or Google calendars that works with iCal's calendar, which you can then synchronize with Entourage, but then you're introducing more points of potential failure. I still haven't seen anything that allows you to upload from iCal easily. Something like this site <http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/synchronize-google-calendar-with.html > may give you a way to make Outlook work with Google Calendar but it's limited in what it can do for you.

The best solution is not to try to keep multiple items in sync with each other but instead have one place that you can trust that will be correct and then synchronize everything to that. That's why I suggest a hosted Exchange solution.

Hope this helps! bill

1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

How does this work? I can't figure out what I actually need. What I am looking to do is be able to sync calenders, notes, etc between Entourage (mac) and outlook (pc). I have 2 employees on pc's and two on macs. and we all want to share a calender. Is this what the exchange server is for? I'm an idiot at this stuff...can you help?

MacBook 2Ghz Intel Duel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Ok, your last post helped clarify this. In larger companies, Exchange server is the common store point for calendar entries. Then everyone, regardless of Windows or Macs, can see the same basic calendar data. Without Exchange, and if you are a small business that might have too much cost and complexity, unless you look into having some other company host it for you, and just pay them a fee.

Barring that, you could look into sharing data using a public service like Google Calendars, (our band uses this method), Yahoo, MSN Hotmail, etc. My only concern would be if a business was doing work that was very secret. It might be too easy to somehow let your information out into the wild by a user mistake (some calendars could be made to be Public instead of private for example).

Other methods, like the PDA methods,are a bit of a hassle for a business. Depending on your budget, I'd look into hosting it internally to the company, externally, and also using a public service like Google. You can then weigh the pros and cons.

I understand that the next version of OSX should have some better server based calendaring. That might be worth waiting for, but I have no idea what features it has.

Group: Did I miss any other options?

Hope this helps.