Color categories for calendar on my iphone

I currently use Entourage 2008 and have a family Exchange account. I would like to be able to have my wife who uses Outlook and I to share a calendar and be able to view them from our respective iphones.
My goal is to be able to see her calendar and mine at the same time and be able to tell which scheduled items are mine as well as which are my wife's. I would hope we could do this via color coded schedules.
I have tried doing this via a shared google calendar but everything is one color.
Also the iphone (or any mobile device apparently) won't access a group calendar on exchange.

Yes, I have tried turning off and then turning back on the phone. Still the same: calendar very very slow.
That is not a reset, it's a restart. As Ingo2711 already said:
Reset - press both home as sleep/wake buttons until the Apple logo appears (ignore red slider).

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I just got a new computer. Was operating in Windows 7, now 8 with Microsoft Office 365. The data, contacts and calendar was pulled over from my Outlook 2007 to the new Outlook 2013. I love the color coded category feature I used to have.
I don't have an IMAP account for this email...it is not a gmail. It is a work email (POP) that i use Outlook 2013 for my email organization. From previous appointments that were transferred over - if I had a color category, it shows up when I open the appointment.
In new appointments I don't have this option. Tag shows Low or High Importance and Private but that's it. How can I get it to show on all the appointments I'd like to set?

Hi,
From the description, when you create a new appointment in Outlook 2013, you cannot see the
Categorize button in the Tags group, however, the button is available if you open an appointment which is transferred from Outlook 2007, am I correct? So, how did you transfer the old data from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2013?
Can you see the Categorize button from the Ribbon if we change to Mail pane?
In addition, when creating a new appointment, please click File > Properties, at the bottom of the Properties window, try add a category by clicking the Categories drop-down list to see the result.
Please let me know the result.
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Unable to Use Color Categories for Outlook 2013

I've recently installed Office 2013 and found that the categories tag wasn't even on the ribbon (beside the tags where it should and used to be). and whenever i tried customizing the ribbon to add it, it was greyed out in the menu and didn't appear on
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The categories you assign won't sync to the server and be visible on other computers, but you can use either keyboard shortcuts to assign categories or a small macro to bring up the category dialog and assign them for messages on this computer.
This works on selected mail - add a button for it to the ribbon -
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Dim objItem As Outlook.MailItem
Set objItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
objItem.ShowCategoriesDialog
Set objItem = Nothing
End Sub
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlook-categories-flags-and-imap-accounts/ has more information and a macro that works for open or selected items.
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Since installing Office 2013, I can no longer:
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Hi,
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to create a new profile. For detailed information, please refer:
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Hey mate i had the same issue and was dumb founded till i came up with a solution that worked for me, and possibly someone out there looking for the same solution. Half the info i looked up was all bullshit and took me months to come up with a fix as
im busy with other priorities.
still busy so ill be quick...and not gonna get too technical just gonna lay it all out in steps
1. create a mail account in exchange eg.
[email protected]
2. log into the account through outlook and share the calendars you set up.
3. go to the exchange management console on the 'server ' right click the created
[email protected] mailbox > manage full access permissions> and start adding the users who need access. (only thing that worked for me)
4. close and reopen outlook on the users computer and then you should see the colour co-ordinated catergories that you assigned for scheduling that they can all access and book appointments in a easy colour co-ordinated layout.
if it dosent show up try - *on the users computer* start >run>cmd>gpupdate/force
this will force the update on some computer that didnt show up with the effect. only had this problem with 1 user and this fixed it :)
hopefully this idea helps you! as it did me cause no geek out there never gave me this easy fix option, instead right properties and blah blah blah technical crap that dosent work, wankers!
thanks :)
P.S this worked between 2010 and 2007 microsoft outlook

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Color categories for calendar on my iphone

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