Sync w/entourage x, iCal version 2.0.5 & most current version of iCal

PowerBook G4 (work computer)
-Entourage X (I use calendar & contacts from the applicaiton everyday)
- iCal version 2.0.5
**currently I am importing my Entourage calendar into my iCal and exporting my contacts from Entorage and importing them into Address book)
MacBook (brand new home computer...haven't even opened the box yet)
-iCal (latest version)
-I don't currently have Entourage installed on this computer
.Mac account
Can I use the .Mac sync software to sync my Entorage X information with both the iCal on my PowerBook (version 2.0.5) and my new MacBook (most current version of iCal)? The end result, I'm hoping my iPhone can sync with my MacBook which will include the most up-to-date information from both my work computer (calendar & contacts) and my home computer. I'm not sure if I should keep my new MacBook if this can't be done...so any help is greatly appreciated.

If you disable your Bonjour Service are you able to launch iTunes?
In your Start menu, right-click My Computer and select "Manage".
Expand "Services & Applications".
Open "Services". (Perhaps maximise the screen to better see what's going on.)
Right-click the Bonjour Service and select "Properties".
In the General tab, set the Startup type to "Disabled":
... and click OK.
Restart the PC and try another iTunes launch. Any better luck then?

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On a campus using Exchange 2007, I am using Entourage 2008 and sync to iCal 3.0.2 (Leopard) via Sync Services in Entourage's preferences. Both Exchange 2007 and Entourage 2008 have only been installed in the last two months.
I have found that events which I mark as "free" in Entourage 2008 are changed to "busy" after a sync with iCal. The free / busy status is correct when the sync with Exchange takes place, but the status is incorrectly changed to busy every time the iCal sync takes place.
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Wish I could offer some good advice, but the easy syncing of iCal and Entourage 2008 so far has been impossible if not a nightmare.
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Deary me! I have been back and forth to iCal and Entourage trying to find which would be best. I have decided that Entourage will suffice - although not perfect by any means. In the meantime I have completely jammed up my iCal and daren't not try syncing Entourage yet otherwise I will never understand it and my iphone will be full of toot! Anyone know how to clear all details in iCal before syncing with Entourage? (Happy Sundays!!)

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Hi,
I've had a macbook for a while but got an iphone 3gs last week and I'm just trying to set it up. My addresses and contacts seem to be syncing to my iphone OK but not my entourage 2004 calendar. I have gone into entourage preferences and ticked all the synch boxes and when I open ical I have an entourage calendar but none of my appointments are on there (the only thing that is are public holidays and birthdays?).
When I tried to sync entourage with ical he just hung so I thought this may be due to number of entourage calendar entries. So I went onto entourage and changed it so that anything over 12 months old is deleted but now I have checked and I still have all my calendar entries on entourage from 2005 so that hasn't worked. How can I delete the old calendar entries?
So as I understand it in order for my calendar to be synced on my iphone it has to go through ical (even though I don't use that on my Macbook). As I can't get entourage to sync my calendar with ical I can't get my calendar onto my iphone at present which is a real pain.
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BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING - BACK UP ALL YOUR DATA IN ENTOURAGE.
You can delete everything in iCal by deleting the calendar (Entourage or Personal or temp or whatever Calendar is there). You can delete everything in Address book either by highlighting all the contacts and hitting delete or by deleting the Address Book folder in Address Book.
The key in getting them to sync properly with Entourage is deleting all the preferences in your Library folder under <your user>. Delete anything with Microsoft Entourage in it. I also deleted iCal preferences and Address Book Preferences.
I also found it necessary to go to the Office folder and delete the sync services folder.
Also go to Entourage sync services and turn OFF syncing with iCal and Address Book. Exit Entourage.
Go to your application folder, isync - reset sync history (button at bottom of screen).
Then bring up Entourage, sync services, and reactivate syncing with iCal and Address Book.
Everything should work. I have been struggling with this the last week or two. I've had innumerable exchanges with MS who have said anything with syncing is not their problem it's an apple application. Through these discussion boards I pieced together all of the elements above. But be sure to back up anything you want to keep before you do any of this.
It should work. It did for me (at least last night and all day today). Good luck.

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I have a new iPod nano and was trying to sync my calendar.
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I have to re-sync every time, and when I open iCal it is empty EVERY TIME.
One thing I have noticed is that there are no calendars in the left hand pane and I cannot add any!
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I just got a brand new MacBook Pro (no more PC)!!!! My I Sync my phone and it put all the data in ical and address book. I use Entourage and thats where i would like all my info to go. how do i set up itunes to go to entourage and not the apple sofware.
And Can i sync via bluetooth?
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Message was edited by: bradley Glaberson

The isync database, as I called it, is really just the master database from which ical, address book, bookmarks, etc., are stored, and it's used for syncing with the .mac service. Entourage can sync with it too, just go to the Entourage menu, choose Preferences, and look under General Preferences for Sync Services. Then check the boxes you want -- I just wanted the contacts to be the same in Entourage and Address Book so I only checked that one. The calendar is kind of funky because iCal uses separate calendars to group events, and I think if you check that box, iCal will then get a new calendar called Entourage, or something like that, in which all the Entourage events will go to and from. That is, I think Entourage will sync only with that iCal calendar, but I could be wrong about that since I don't use it.
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I don't know if this will work with Entourage 2008, but this has worked for me when I have episodic gremlins where iCal stops syncing with Entourage 2004.
1. First, back up both your iCal Entourage calender AND your Exchange calendar (to back up the Exchange calendar I typically have to have access to the Exchange server and make a copy of the calendar.
2. Go to Entourage Preferences and disable the sync with iCal. This involves navigate to Preferences - General Preferences - Sync Services and then unchecking the box to "synchronize events and tasks with iCal and .Mac"
3. Once the sync is turned off, go to your iCal and delete the existing Entourage calendar using the DELETE option either under EDIT or by right clicking the calendar.
4. Close iCal
5. Go back to Entourage, and turn the sync option back on again navigating to Preferences - General Preferences - Sync Services and then checking the box to "synchronize events and tasks with iCal and .Mac". After making the change, Click OK to save it.
6. Close Entourage
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8. Reopen iCal. When you opening iCal this time, the Entourage calendar will be rebuilt and this time hopefully without the gremlins or bugs that gummed up the works.
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Sync Entourage to iCal to .Mac

I enabled sync services so that Entourage (the calendar I use) would send my calendar to iCal then publish it to .Mac.
For some reason, I have two Entourage calendars showing up on my iCal calendars.
Can I just delete the iCal calendars and resync or will that make me lost all my Entourage data?
Other suggestions?
Thanks

The isync database, as I called it, is really just the master database from which ical, address book, bookmarks, etc., are stored, and it's used for syncing with the .mac service. Entourage can sync with it too, just go to the Entourage menu, choose Preferences, and look under General Preferences for Sync Services. Then check the boxes you want -- I just wanted the contacts to be the same in Entourage and Address Book so I only checked that one. The calendar is kind of funky because iCal uses separate calendars to group events, and I think if you check that box, iCal will then get a new calendar called Entourage, or something like that, in which all the Entourage events will go to and from. That is, I think Entourage will sync only with that iCal calendar, but I could be wrong about that since I don't use it.
Once you check the contacts box, Entourage will populate with all the contacts in your Address Book, and I think if you don't already have contacts there (that is if you've only been using Entourage for your contacts) then it will ask you if you want to put all your Entourage contacts into Address Book. I just don't remember.
Surely someone else out there is more familiar with this, but it should get you started.

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OK, here is my problem. I can access two calendars with iCal (one is on Google Calendar and the other one is on a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server) how can I synchronize them the best? I want to keep both in their original place, but I also want things to show up in both.

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It seems to me that you have correctly determined that it makes sense to only publish an identical calendar from one of the computers.
After appropriately backing up your calendars, you might want to consider Resetting .Mac Sync. It appears as if both of your computers are using 10.4.6, but just in case..."If you sync between computers with different versions of Mac OS X, try to reset the sync data from the computer with Mac OS X 10.4, if possible."
Make sure that "Synchronize my calendars with other computers using .Mac is checked in the General Preference of the iMac.
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I use Entourage. It's set up to sync with .mac and iCal. My Entourage calendar shows up fine on my iPhone. In my iCal, it only shows a few of the Entourage entries and doesn't show anything in the calendar list. iTunes, sync properties for the iPhone show 3 calendars, Entourage, @Work, @Home. If I add something to iCal, it doesn't make it to Entourage. On the right it shows it's the Entourage calendar and publishes on .mac whenever there is a change. When I first bring up iCal, it shows nothing until I change the view to a different Day, Week, or Month. iCal seems to be very disconnected for some reason.

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UNSUB Entourage from iCal?!

I don't hate Entourage -- OK, I used to not hate it! -- but I'm about to get on the water tower with a high-powered rifle ...
Unlike many on here, apparently, I did get get Entourage calendar to sync with iCal, both in Leopard and Tiger. Here's the problem: I cannot get it to stop.
Instead on the Entourage calendar updates overwriting or merging with the Entourage item in Ical, it just adds additional calendars! Time after time after time!
I have so many Entourage calendars in iCal now that it only finishes loading after God knows how long, and then, of course, because I apparently can't Shift-Click a bunch, they must be slooowly Deleted one by one.
Only to reappear, Ninja-like, in their legions again later.
Yes, I have: undid the sync on iCal; deselected the appropriate sync options in Entourage. But the ghostly and crash-worthy Entourage calendars still return to haunt and mock me.
I'd take the path of least resistance and just use Entourage -- I don't hate it that much -- but I've got years of saved messages in my Apple Mail folders that I refer to.
And really, are we Apple people or Microsoft people? I think you know the answer.
Somebody, please, I'm beggin' ya, tell me how to disable the Entourage corruption of iCal.

Hey Debra,
It sounds like you have a entourage calendar in iCal. Just disable syncing in Entourage preferences then delete the calendar in iCal. When the Entourage calendar is no longer in iCal it should not show up in iTunes.
This article shows howto get to the Entourage syncing preferences.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670
To delete the entourage calendar, launch iCal> highlight the calendar> Edit> Delete.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/3.0/en/9878.html
Jason

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