Outlook categories sync

hi, does BB10 sync the categories of events with exchange/outlook?There is no info on the website. BB7 uses the categories in contacts and tasks but not events. we search our future devices and BB10 looks good for us. but the categories are essential for us. thanks,stefan

Me too. Ever since getting my Z10 over a year and a half ago, it's been the lone bane of my existence. Sure, there have been other issues, but most of those I could deal with and many have been fixed since. Remember when BB used to send out usability surveys to us (something they haven't done in over 8 or 9 months now)? I would write a whole thesis on the Outlook Contact Category Compatibility issue in the comment sections every chance I got. My biggest issue was as mentioned above - editing a contact - synced via EAS - on the phone, would delete any and all categories set for the contact back on the server, and thus my PC at work - and mess up all the links related to categories on the PC. Not such a good thing for a "business-minded" device. Well, 10.2 came out - no fix. Then 10.2.1 came out - still no fix. Then 10.3.0 came out - still no fix. Then 10.3.1 came out - are you kidding me? I have not tried the 10.3.2 leak - nor have I heard anything about it related to categories, but I hold out no hope. So, anyone with any kind of connection at all to BlackBerry want to comment on why this one thing has been so obviously ignored for so long?

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You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

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Has Apple solved the problem of syncing outlook categories with multiple devices both PC's and Macs.
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I agree. It is Ridiculous in my opinion. There is a third party I tried it. Didn't work for me because they wanted me to sync my contacts on their cloud. It doesn't work with USB Sync. But if you want to try it here:
http://www.companionlink.com/products/outlook-categories.html

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Hello and apologies. Perhaps my questions was already posted but I didn't find entries (used the search though).
(When) will iTunes sync the outlook categories to iPhone/iPod? I heavily used this feature on the win mobile device.
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I have noticed something useful when entering contacts directly into my iPhone. When entering a contact that I want shown in the list by the company name, I enter the company name first (without entering the "first name" and "last name") and save it. If you do it that way, the little square where the photo would be will change from the blank head to some buildings, and the contact will be listed by the company name. You can then go back and edit to add a first and last name and it will stay listed by company name.
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Hi Tim
Firstly, apologies for the slow response to your very quick reply !
I've checked back, we're using Exchange 2007.
We've actually got a ticket open with Apple at present, so anticipate that a patch may be available.
It is still curious though that out of a 200 user community trialling our internal iPhone & iPad pilot, we only have 2 issues (mine and a colleagues), however anticipate that there will be more issues as nearly entire community is on 5.1.1.
On a second point, any ideas how one can rollback to 4.3.3 on an iPhone or iPad ? I can't find anything that implies a self rollback without jail breaking the device ?
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challenger70,
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Hi, Please do not post duplicate threads.
see here > http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=8300&message.id=37254#M37254
You are posting your message in device threads meaning normal everyday users are going to read it, if you want advice from administrators, please post it in Blackberry Enterprise Server area.
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OR
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305845
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Ok....I've done it all. I've reinstalled....numerous times...earlier iTunes versions...operating systems...reduced my pst files to less than five appointments, none of which are recurring...rebuilt pst files....you name it, I've done it. My Outlook calendar still does not sync with iPhone/iTunes. I get the "outlooksyncclient.exe" has encountered a problem and needs to close..." error message. I'm inclined to subscribe to the point of view I saw from one poster that PocketMirror/Palm figured it out, Apple should be able to as well.
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Try this. Forgive me as I am not at my work computer but expericenced exactly the same problems.
Go to edit your email account and assuming you are using outlook 2003 since I don't 2007 you will need to find the dialog box that says something to the effect of send your information to your personal documents. It is a drop down menu within settings. You will then need to close outlook and open it again. Try syncing your iphone and this worked like a charm for me.
To sum it up your mail,contacts, and calendar entries are curetnly being stored on your work server. Iphone doesn't like that. When you tell outlook to store these items on your personal documents they then are stored on your hard drive and Iphone loves that. When I first tried doing this I noticed that I didn't have the option to send these items to my persnal files so if that is the case for you you will need to create it by clicking add and just pointing to personal files.
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