IPod Touch with Microsoft Entourage

Question

Hello everyone,
I've got a pretty simple question,
Is there anyway to sync an iPod Touch directly with Microsoft Entourage without using iCal and/or address book (for contacts)? I'm hoping there is but when I go to setup my iPod in iTunes, sync with iCal is the only option I see.
Thanks,
Larko
Message was edited by: Larko23

Answer 1

First I would go to the File menu in iCal and Export each calendar you want to back up to a file, just in case something goes wrong. I was able to restore some of my old calendar data from my MacBook onto my iMac by doing this. Then I would go to Entourage’s File menu and Export whatever you want a backup of. Perhaps here I should say I am using Office 2008. Before I recently got 2008 I wasn’t using Office. If you have an older version of Entourage, I do not know if this syncing will work.
In the Entourage menu choose Preferences. Under General preferences select Sync Services. Put a check in the box by Synchronize events and tasks with iCal and .Mac.
When I did this a new calendar appeared in the list of calendars in iCal called Entourage. I just put an all day event in iCal for tomorrow inside the Entourage calendar in iCal. A minute later it appeared in Entourage. I then selected a different calendar in iCal, namely Home, and made a new event in iCal. It does not show up in Entourage. So it appears that only the events I put in the Entourage calendar of iCal will sync with Entourage.
Now lets go the other way. I created a new event in Entourage and a few seconds later it magically appeared in iCal. Let’s try something else. I quit iCal. I create a new event in Entourage. I quit Entourage. I open iCal. The event is not there. Wait. In a matter of seconds it shows up.
Now what about the iPod? I have the iPod settings in iTunes set up to sync my Entourage calendar that is in iCal. So now if I want I never have to use iCal. I can use Entourage, and when I sync to my iPod, it gets the Entourage calendar events that are synced with iCal. So I can use Entourage as my calendar program, iTunes to sync to the iPod, and ignore iCal.