Contact Sync Best Practices?

I've been asked by a friend to help sync his contacts with Outlook 2010. He currently uses a Gmail account which connects over the air with his iPhone 4 using ActiveSync (mail + contacts + calendar) and he wants to see the contacts on Outlook. I plan to setup the email account in IMAP mode.
My past experience with synchronizing stuff with Outlook has been absolutely disastrous. Only Exchange equals trouble-free in my book. I consider iCloud because I assume that enough QA effort went into it and hope to be pleasantly surprised. But if the consensus is that it is not ready for prime time please let me know...
Anyway, before I begin I would apprecaite your thoughts on the following:
Would you advise to turn off ActiveSync synchronization for contacts if I turn it on in iCloud? That way avoid the greater risk of three-way sync between Gmail <-> iPhone <-> Outlook but Gmail would be taken out of the loop.
Is it possible to use the same iCloud login on TWO computers without truble? So we can have the same contacts on both.
Is it possible to set the iCloud contacts folder in Outlook--once created--as the default location for NEW contacts as they are created on Outlook?
Thanks

I gather the answer to question #1 is by all means disable Google Sync before you set up iCloud.
Still unclear on whether it's worth investing the time in doing this. The forum is typically filled with disappointed folks but that's not saying much since the service has been available to millions. So any insight would be welcome.

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Syncing, best practice?

Still with MobileMe, I'm about to move everything over (iMac, MacBook 10.7.2 and iPhone iOS5) to iCloud.
I've always found the multiplicity of ways to sync (Wi-Fi, or via iTunes, or push, or via iSync etc!)… from the MobileMe site, in each app) confusing.
Does the apparent association of data with the MobileMe account still apply?
Is there a site, link, PDF or other doc which lays out clearly what the new iCloud best practice is to keep only iCal and Contacts (Apple Address Book) in perfect synch (no delays, no duplicates, no fuss), please?
TIA!

Mark Sealey wrote:
1) What's the differece bwteeen http://www.me.com/migrate and http://www.icloud.com/move?
Should be the same. For some MM users the first works, for others the second.
It simply moves Mobile Me data over to icloud and changes the Mail Server settings.
I never migrated, because I never used MM. I am just a new icloud user , so no need for these facilities. You can also opt in to simply create a new account, from the iOS5 setup wizard. Apple doesn't seem to care how many accounts one creates in icloud. But useable is of course only one at a time, better : one per "up to 5 devices".
2) Yes, iCloud is ruled system-wide, not on a per-app setting for OS X.
    But I currently have 'Documents' checked in my iCloud System Preference (without yet having set up iCloud) .     If I uncheck it on my iMac (without having yet set up iCloud), I get a warning,
                        'If you turn off Documents & Data, all documents stored in iCloud will be removed from                                this Mac'!
    Really? :-(
Can safely be ignored on OS X - nothing gets deleted, because nothing is to delete. As I said already no single app makes use of "documents and data" in OS X currently, only selected apps in iOS5 ( and there , in iOS5 the warning is not to be ignored, as it really does delete all documents ).
3) iTunes 10.5 supports Wifi Sync, must be enabled in iTunes' settings. Whenever the device is on Wifi, and there     is something to sync with iTunes, it will do.
   This is the same as traditional USB-cable-sync ( which is at all times also available ) .
But I should not synch this way, should I? I should not let iTunes do it, should I?
Icloud sync per se has nothing to do with iTunes sync. These are two facilities for two very different reasons : icloud will sync adresses,bookmarks, iCloud Mail but for example not your private ( non-store-purchased ) movies or music.
In other words : you use iTunes only to sync to the device what iCloud wont do. iTunes-syncs will not affect the iCloud and vice versa - basically the two don't know about each other.
I can't tell you if you "should" use it. I do, because I want my music on my iPod, I also sync garageband and iMovie projects from and to it. All this icloud doesn't for me.
So the old (MM) way with calendars associated with mobileme accounts is gone?
I don't know what MobileMe did different . iCloud calendar syncs your local OSX iCal entries to the cloud and thus also to the iOS5 devices. All google/hotmail/yahoo entries will not sync to the cloud, only "Mac" local calendar.
You need to be aware that iCloud is not MobileMe but a new product. You wont have a "idisk" to store files in icloud , you wont have Galleries to share pictures online and also no iWeb hosting space. It's really all about syncing. The only "storage" if one can even call it so, is for the mobile iwork apps that they can store office files in the icloud. From a Mac one can then up- and download via iCloud's web-interface at www.icloud.com.
And that option exists only because OSX apps wont sync / mirror your changes you did to a document on pages for iOS5, for example. You must always download to Mac, edit there, upload again , edit on iOS, sync to icloud, download on Mac again ... it is very clumsy as it is now. Most people thought Apple would have made the "document and data" thing available also in OSX ( like you were wondering about your 100GB space .. ) , but they did not. Maybe a future version of iwork will access this, but right now no.

Ibook to desktop syncing best practices

trying to keep my ibook in sync with my g5 desktop. Client projects in addition to the entourage data files, etc.. I've come across numerous scenarios and recommendations. Anyone with any best practice suggestions, ie: software, syncing scenarios, automation, etc., would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Hugh
The settings that you are looking for are in Itunes. you can choose to sync only unlistened podcasts.
If you go to the podcast section in itunes, there is a filed that says keep and you can choose from the following options:
All episodes
All unplayed episodes
Most Recent episode
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Best Practice Question: Portal Sync Rules

Hi,
Is there any benefit in combining Inbound and Outbound Flows in a single Sync Rule?
Or does it not matter if Inbound flows have their own Sync Rule and Outbound flows have their own Sync Rules?
Does either option generate more/less EREs/DREs?
Is either option better for performance reasons?
look forward to your comments, thank you
sk

1:
Only the OSR's create EREs, so if you have 4 outbound 3 inbound (assuming a user gets all 4 outbound SR's) the user should have 4 EREs. If the rules were combined into 3 outbound/inbound and 1 outbound, the user still gets 4 EREs.
2:
If my source was AD, I would create a new MV attribute called inAD. Then import a constant "true" from the target, AD for example. Then from my source, HR for example, ill flow in a constant "false". Lastly update the MV attribute precedence for the
inAD attribute to be AD then HR. From there i'd create a custom attribute in the portal so I can use the flag for set criteria.
This might be a long winded way of getting it done, but say you have 10k users in AD and used DRE's. It means 10k more objects in the MV and in the portal.
Disclaimer: Not saying this is best practice, it's just what I do :)

Best Practice for Droid Gmail Contacts with Exchange ActiveSync?

Hi, folks. After going through an Address Book nightmare this past summer, I am attempting to once again get my Contacts straight and clean. I have just started a new job and want to bring my now clean Gmail contacts over to Exchange. The challenge is creating duplicate contacts, then defining a go-forward strategy for creating NEW contacts so that they reside in both Gmail and Exchange without duplication. Right now, my Droid is master and everything is fine. However, once I port those contacts from Gmail onto my laptop, all hell breaks loose... Does Verizon have a Best Practice finally documented for this? This past summer I spoke with no less than 5 different Customer Support reps and got 3 different answers... This is not an uncommon problem...

In parallel to this post, I called Verizon for Technical Support assistance. Seems no progress has been made. My issue this past summer were likely a result of extremely poor quality products from Microsoft, which included Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Lync (new phone system they are touting which is horrible), and Exchange. As a go-forward strategy, I have exported all Gmail contacts to CSV for Outlook and have imported them to Exchange. All looks good. I am turning off phone visibility of Gmail contacts and will create all new contacts in Exchange.

Best practice for getting all Activities for a Contact

Hello,
I am new to the Eloqua API and am wondering what is the best practice for downloading a list of all activities for a given contact.
Thanks

Hi Mike,
For activities in general, Bulk 2.0 Activity Exports will be the best way to go. Docs are here: http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/marketingcs_gs/OMCBB/index.html
But it can be a complex process to wrap your head around if you're new to the Eloqua API. So if you're in a pinch and don't care about the association of those activities to campaigns, and only need to pull activities for a few contacts, you can resort to using REST API calls.
The activity calls are visible (from Firebug or Chrome console) if you open any contact record and navigate to the "Activity Log" tab. If you have it set to all activities, it will fire off a dozen or more calls or you can choose an individual one from the picklist to inspect that call in more detail.
Best regards,
Bojan

What is the Account and Contact workflow or best practice?

I'm just learning the use of the web services. I have written something to upload my customers into accounts using the web services. I need to now include a contact for each account. I'm trying to understand the workflow. It looks like I need to first call the web service to create the account, then call a separate web service to create the contact and include the account's ID with the contact to that they are linked, is this correct?
Is there a place I can go to find the "best practices" for work flows?
Can I automatically create the contact within my call to create the account in the web service?
Thanks,

Probably a poor choice of words. Sorry.
So basically, I have gotten further, but I just noticed related problem.
I'm using the WebServices(WS) 1.0. I insert an account, then, on a separate WS call, I insert my contacts for the account. I include the AccountID, and a user defined key from the Account when creating the Contact.
When I look at my Contact on the CRMOD web page, it shows the appropriate links back to the Account. But when I look at my Account on the CRMOD web page, it shows no Contacts.
So when I say workflow or Best Practice, I was hoping for guidance on how to properly write my code to accomplish all of the necessary steps. As in this is how you insert an account with a contact(s) and it updates the appropriate IDs so that it shows up properly on the CRMOD web pages.
Based on the above, it looks like I need to, as the next step, take the ContactID and update the Account with it so that their is a bi-directional link.
I'm thinking there is a better way in doing this.
Here is my psuedocode:
AccountInsert()
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Syncing App IDs across servers -- Best Practice?

This is prompted by a comment chrisstephens made in the thread at non-existent applications in non-existent workspaces reserving app id's
Our developers are convinced that the application id's between our dev + staging
+ production environments need to be synchronized.Our team also keeps our dev, test, and prod server app IDs synchronized -- for instance, the Widget Reporting App is always app # 38 on all three servers. For us, it's not something we see as REQUIRED, but it is convenient, and a general sanity check. If the numbers didn't sync, it seems it would be all too easy to get values mixed up and accidentally field an app to the wrong place (possibly overwriting some other application).
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Another good reason is to make it possible to export application components (pages, etc.) from one database (say, dev) and install them into an application in another database (say, prod). This is not possible if the application IDs are different.
Scott

Best Practice to save the contacts in the Database

Hi everybody,
I´m looking for some tips about the data in the Database. I would like to know what are the best practices saving a record. For example, I want to save the First Name, Second Name and the Last Name in the DB, How can I save them, I mean, the first letter in Uppercase, or all the record in lowercase.
Ig, Austin Martin or austin martin
What are the best way or best practice to do that??
Can someone tell me? I would appreciate it, thx.
Fabián Carrillo
Siebel CRM Consultant

Hi!
Not quite sure what you're after here. Generally, store the data in the way it's going to be presented - sentence case in the examples you've given.
If you're thinking along the lines of case sensitivity in querying within Siebel, then take a look at the Case Insensitivity Wizard in Siebel Bookshelf:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14004_01/books/UPG/UPG_DB_Upg_Util10.html
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IPhone Best Practices - A Work In Progress

Hello all. I've been tasked with introducing my coworkers into the inner workings of the iPhone, and there are a good number of pointers that I find myself saying over and over again. I'd like to share my best practices with everyone, as well as collect more pointers and opinions from the community at large.
Care and Handling:
First - wash your hands, often. Now I know we all do this often anyway, but I'd like to point out that a healthy amount of hand washing will really go a long way to keep your iPhone screen smudge free. The worst offender, unfortunately, is doughnuts. A small layer of sugar will render that area un-tappable, without any real indication that it has done so. If you are frantically tapping the screen on the iPod button and nothing is happening, clean your phone before you do a hard reset.
Second - Pockets. Keeping your phone in your front pocket is natural and what most of us do. In these summer months, however, keeping your phone in a sweaty front pocket can do a good deal to the dirt level of the screen. If you find yourself cleaning your phone constantly, try a belt clip.
Lastly - Battery Life. Your iPhone's battery life is in your hands, literally. Being aware of your power consumption and planning accordingly is going to be infinitely more important that the battery's native charge-holding ability. This goes especially for the day of purchase - as tempting as it may be to open the box and activate, immediately running around the house watching YouTube, it is best to let the phone charge for 12 hours before use. Charging the phone every night is an absolute must, skipping a day will kill the battery life as your ride the bottom edge the following day. Most of us have access to a USB port while we're at work, best idea will be to plug in your phone when you sit down at your desk.
iPod:
Large Libraries: In the opening weekend, I got many complaints that you cannot manually manage your music. There is a workaround that has made me change the way I work with all of my iPods: the iPhone specific playlist. Simply create a playlist with all of the music you wish to put on your phone and sync that one playlist. This also helps with sync time - you have a start sync and an end sync, not a constant sync all throughout your music management, slowing your computer down in the process.
TV Shows: I watch a lot of MST3K, which I have organized into iTunes as TV shows, split into seasons, the works. The problem that has arisen, therefore, is the one of selective synchronization - you cannot specifically select the TV show you want to sync to the device, instead getting the choices to sync all, unwatched, or latest shows. This is problematic when each show is 700MB large. Here's the work around - select all of the episodes of a specific show and right click, selecting "Mark as Not New", removing all of the little blue dots from the episodes. Select the one, three, or five episodes, and right click them, selecting "Mark as New", then sync the last one, three, or five unwatched episodes. The shows you selected will sync.
iPhoto:
Many users are complaining that iPhoto opens whenever the phone is connected. This is not a preference of the phone, but rather iPhoto. Remember when you first launched iPhoto and it asked you if you wanted to use iPhoto whenever your camera was attached? iPhoto is detecting that your phone is a camera and launching, just as you told it to do.
Mail:
POP accounts - too many unread messages: When first adding a POP account, all of the messages downloaded to the phone arrive as unread. Tapping a message, tapping back, and then tapping the next message can get tedious. Here's the workaround - tap the small down arrow to the upper right hand side of the screen, watching closely to the number next to Inbox. When that number goes down by one, tap the arrow again. If that number hasn't gone down yet, wait a sec, and do not try to tap tap tap tap tap, you'll flood the input queue and crash Mail.
Syncing Mail accounts - All too often people blame the iPhone when their mail does not work. A perfect test is sync you accounts from Mail. If they work in mail, they'll work on the phone, if they are unreliable in Mail, they will also be unreliable on the phone. The Mail client on the iPhone is just as powerful as any other mail client in terms of how it connects to mail servers, if you are having problems you need to check your settings before blaming the hardware. If you prefer to leave your install of Mail.app alone, create a new user account on your Mac, set up all of the accounts you want there, and use iTunes to sync that data to the phone. Make sure to remove that portion of sync from your actual user account's instance of iTunes, however, or it will all sync back.
This message has not been downloaded from the server: This message has snagged a couple users, but upon investigation, these users have filled their iPhones to the absolute brim with music and video. It hasn't been downloaded from the server because there is no space to download to - this also applies to the Camera application dumping to the Home screen. Because there is no space, it can't add any new data. Make some room, then be patient as the mail client gets to that message in cleanup (often a sync or reboot will clear it up).
Safari:
Safari and iPod: Many users have reported iPod stopping in the middle of browsing, often pouting and pursing their lips crying, "This is terrible, I can't even browse the web and listen to music at the same time?". I then check their phone, and lo and behold they have upwards of eight separate pages open at the same time. This device (like every other computer out there) has a finite amount of memory, each page taking up a significant portion depending on how busy the page is. I've routinely gotten through entire albums while browsing through Safari, but I've got one page open in total, and it's usually mostly text. Keep it to one or two pages open and iPod will run forever if you let it.
Web Apps: "This web app is terrible, it keeps booting me to Home!" When was your last reboot? How many other pages are open? In the same vein as Safari and iPod, Web Apps need a good deal of breathing room - give it to them. Close down other pages, stop iPod, or even reboot. Give the app a clean slate and it will perform, every time. iPhoneRemote users will attest to this.
iCal:
Multiple Calendars - Default Calendar: When adding a new appointment, it adds to the default calendar. Appointments can't be shunted to the correct calendar until after sync anyway, so create an "iPhone" calendar and make that the default. Because it's in that calendar, you'll know enough to move it to the appropriate calendar after sync.
Please feel free to add your own best practices, and ask questions, too.

is there any application you can get for the iphone to enlarge text and phone numbers ?
If included with an email or on a website, yes with no application needed.
If you are referring to the text size for your iPhone's contact list, no.
can you insert a phone number from your contact list into a text message ?
No.
i cant seem to figure it out, does the alarm clock work if you turn off the phone at night,
No - powered off with the iPhone means powered off. Any phone that provides for this is not powered off - it is in deep sleep or deep standby mode, which the iPhone does not support. If you don't want your phone ringing or don't want to receive SMS at night but you want to use the iPhone's alarm feature as a wake-up alarm, you can turn on Airplane Mode before going to bed, which will also conserve the battery if your iPhone is not plugged in at night.
can you send a multi media text message ?
No.

Best Practice for Multiple iTunes and One Account?

My wife and I share our account for our iPhone Applications and Songs in iTunes.
Can someone point me to a topic that covers a best practice for multiple iTunes syncing?
I travel a lot and keep my iPhone synced to my Macbook Pro while she uses the workstation at home to sync to. We keep the addresses and contacts and calendars synced through MobileMe, however, I'm trying to find the best way of pushing applications and songs I've bought over to the other PC so they're still around while I'm traveling for her to sync with.
Thoughts?

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Best practice to move things between various environments in SharePoint 2013

Hi All SharePoint Gurus!! - I was using SP deployment wizard to move Sites/lists/libraries/items etc. using SP Deployment Wizard (spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com) in SP 2010. We just upgraded to SP 2013. I have few Lists and Libraries that I need to push
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Best practices of having a different external/internal domain

In the midst of migrating from a joint Windows/Mac server environment to a completely Apple one. Previously, DNS was hosted on the Windows machine using the companyname.local internal domain. When we set up the Apple server, our Apple contact created a new internal domain, called companyname.ltd. (Supposedly there was some conflict in having a 10.5 server be part of a .local domain - either way it was no worries either way.) Companyname.net is our website.
The goal now is to have the Leopard server run everything - DNS, Kerio mailserver, website, the works. In setting up the DNS on the Mac server this go around, we were advised to just use companyname.net as the internal domain name instead of .ltd or .local or something like that. I happen to like having a separate local domain just for clarity's sake - users know if they are internal/external, but supposedly the Kerio setup would respond much better to just the one companyname.net.
So after all that - what's the best practice of what I should do? Is it ok to have companyname.net be the local domain, even when companyname.net is also the address to our external website? Or should the local domain be something different from that public URL? Or does it really not matter one way or the other? I've been running companyname.net as the local domain for a week or so now with pretty much no issues, I'd just hate to hit a point where something breaks long term because of an initial setup mixup.
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Part of this is personal preference, but there are some technical elements to it, too.
You may find that your decision is swayed by the number of mobile users in your network. If your internal machines are all stationary then it doesn't matter if they're configured for companyname.local (or any other internal-only domain), but if you're a mobile user (e.g. on a laptop that you take to/from work/home/clients/starbucks, etc.) then you'll find it a huge PITA to have to reconfigure things like your mail client to get mail from mail.companyname.local when you're in the office but mail.companyname.net when you're outside.
For this reason we opted to use the same domain name internally as well as externally. Everyone can set their mail client (and other apps) to use one hostname and DNS controls where they go - e.g. if they're in the office or on VPN, the office DNS server hands out the internal address of the mail server, but if they're remote they get the public address.
For the most part, users don't know the difference - most of them wouldn't know how to tell anyway - and using one domain name puts the onus on the network administrator to make sure it's correct which IMHO certainly raises the chance of it working correctly when compared to hoping/expecting/praying that all company employees understand your network and know which server name to use when.
Now one of the downsides of this is that you need to maintain two copies of your companyname.net domain zone data - one for the internal view and one for external (but that's not much more effort than maintaining companyname.net and companyname.local) and make sure you edit the right one.
It also means you cannot use Apple's Server Admin to manage your DNS on a single machine - Server Admin only understands one view (either internal or external, but not both at the same time). If you have two DNS servers (one for public use and one for internal-only use) then that's not so much of an issue.
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2nd Mac - best practices using iPhoto on both?

Hi -
I just got a new MacBook and have an iMac that is still the "hub" of my photo library. It is, in fact, about a 180 GB iPhoto library. I know that I can't sync libraries between Macs (a shame - someone should come up with a way to that assuming they haven't already!) so I'm just looking for any best practices?
I got the MacBook to be able to work on some photos while on the road - I can at least work on post processing in Photoshop, etc. I'm thinking now that my best strategy is to possibly work with the images on my MacBook, importing them into the iPhoto library if desired. Then use my Photo sharing service - Phanfare - to "sync" them? It requires me to download them on the other side and pull them again into the iPhoto Library on the iMac?
I don't use the Mobile Me Gallery but I suppose that would be another way to have access to them on the alternate computer?
Any other best practices or suggestions?
Thx!

So, if there are times when I'm not home to access my external drive, then going with the two libraries is the best solution, yes?
Perhaps, but you can get very small and portable external HDs these days.
I'm not sure though if I should really make both a 180 GB iPhoto library, do you? It is a back up true, but seems like a chunk to move
But you only do it once. The first time. Thereafter you're simply updating the other with the changes.
At least maybe I could split into pictures from 2009 - 2010 and have that library for both my iMac and the MacBook. I very rarely access before then (only if I need something specific) so then I could access that via the iMac exclusively?
That would be viable.
I would maintain a +full Library+ on the Desktop, the mobile versions a Smaller subset.
I'm sort of ruling out the one library on the external solution because it eliminates the possibility of being remote -
As I said above you can get tiny portable drives...
unless there is some swanky Login to My Computer or something that works with a Mac that can go remotely to my computer and then to my external drive.
*_This_* might help.
Regards
TD

Best practices for managing Movies (iPhoto, iMovie) to IPhone

I am looking for some basic recommendations best practices on managing the syncing of movies to my iPhone. Most of my movies either come from a digital camcorder into iMovie or from a digital Camera into iPhone.
Issues:
1. If I do an export or a share from iPhoto, iMovie, or QuickTime, what formats should I select. I've seem 3gp, mv4.
2. When I add a movie to iTunes, where is it stored. I've seen some folder locations like iMovie Sharing/iTunes. Can I copy them directly there or should I always add to library in iTunes?
3. If I want to get a DVD I own into a format for the iPhone, how might I do that?
Any other recommedations on best practices are welcome.
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mek

1. If you type "iphone" or "ipod" into the help feature in imovie it will tell you how.
"If you want to download and view one of your iMovie projects to your iPod or iPhone, you first need to send it to iTunes. When you send your project to iTunes, iMovie allows you to create one or more movies of different sizes, depending on the size of the original media that’s in your project. The medium-sized movie is best for viewing on your iPod or iPhone."
2. Mine appear under "movies" which is where imovie put them automatically.
3. If you mean movies purchased on DVD, then copying them is illegal and cannot be discussed here.
From the terms of use of this forum:
"Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store."

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