Sync Calendar / Contacts without installing software - best method?

I'm still scratching for an answer to this problem.
My calendar and contacts are on my work PC (Outlook). I can't install software on that computer.
I have a PC at home, with iTunes installed.
What is the best method of keeping my iPhone and my work pc in Sync with each other?

Allan Sampson wrote:
You need iTunes for the sync process with the iPhone so you need to transfer your data from your work PC to your home or personal PC and sync your iPhone with this PC only.
That's the conclusion I came to a couple of months ago. I was hoping things might have moved on. Never mind, perhaps something will develop out of the SDK when it is launched in Feb.
Thanks anyway.

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Itunes 9.2: can´t sync calendar, contacts, notes...

Hi all,
sorry for my bad english. I´m from germany.
since the itunes 9.2 update my contacts, calendar, notes and bookmarks (the hole tab, its called "Info" in german itunes) wont sync with my iphone 3G (iOS 4.0) and iPod Touch 1G (3.1.3). Other media like music, books, videos etc. working fine.
Theres no error message or something like that. After syncing the checkboxes to overwrite contacts etc. on iphone/ipod are still checked. Before 9.2 they get unchecked after syncing.
the mdcrashreporter.exe appears for a short time in taskmanager.
its no problem with outlook because windows contacts wont sync too.
Tried everything...
- reinstall itunes and all other apple products
- reinstall office (outlook)
- export/import new calendar, contacts, etc. from/to outlook
- new outlook storage file
- new calendar, contacts, etc.
- sync without option to overwrite data on iphone
- hard/soft reset iphone
- restore iphone (with and without backup)
- sync only contacts (without music, videos, bookmarks etc)
- sync all
- troubleshooting article from apple.com
- user help from here
- repair MobileDeviceSupport/ApplicationSupport
- sync windows contacts
System:
iPhone 3G @iOS4
iPod Touch 1G @3.1.3
iTunes 9.2
Outlook 2007 (all patches)
Win7 (all patches)
no hacks/third-party-software/jailbreaks or something else
no other device-backups in itunes so I need to sync with outlook or windows contacts. a phone without contacts is useless...more than one week after this ** itunes update theres still no fix
need help please. I read all the other posts here but nothing fixed my problem. someone out there with an idea?

Update:
*C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\MobileSync\AppleMobileSync.exe.00.log*
2010-07-08 >22:55:42.520|AppleMobileSync.exe|1948:3938184|DeviceLinkListener.c:DLDeviceLis tenerCreateWithCallbacks| ERROR: Can't listen for mobile devices, error -402653085: (null)
Same error with different dates.
(first date = itunes 9.2 first installation date)
reinstalled MobileDevice Driver (from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers). nothing.
reinstalled AppleMobileDeviceSupport. nothing.
reinstalled office 2007/itunes 9.2. nothing.
changed USB port. nothing.
next phone will be a non apple product..need my phone, my contacts and my calendar(!!!) and there is still no fix since 2 weeks...no way to downgrade..what a joke...
btw: itunes diagnostic from "?" menu says:
Microsoft Windows 7 Business Edition (Build 7600)
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P4GPL-X
iTunes 9.2.0.61
QuickTime 7.6.6
FairPlay 1.8.20
Apple Application Support 1.3
iPod Updater Library 9.2d4
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 3.1.0.62
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.49.0.0
Bonjour 2.0.2.0 (214.3)
iTunes-Seriennummer // censored //
Aktueller Benutzer ist kein Administrator.
Aktuelles Datum und Uhrzeit sind 2010-07-08 23:08:28.
iTunes befindet sich nicht im abgesicherten Modus.
WebKit Accelerated Compositing ist aktiviert.
HDCP wird nicht unterstützt.
Info zu Video-Anzeige
ATI Technologies Inc., ATI Radeon X1950 GT
ATI Technologies Inc., ATI Radeon X1950 GT Secondary
** Info für externe Plug-Ins **
Keine externen Plug-Ins installiert.
iPodService 9.2.0.61 arbeitet zurzeit.
iTunesHelper 9.2.0.61 arbeitet zurzeit.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.1.0.0 arbeitet zurzeit.
** Synchronisierungstests für Geräte **
Sync-Tests erfolgreich abgeschlossen.
*(english: sync-test completed successfully)*
Ideas?

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I have a problem. It seems that I cannot duplicate my contacts without duplicating them. What makes matters worse is that I am using OS 10.6.8, and the Icloud has never worked properly for me. I always wind up loosing the the ability to sync my calendar.
At this time, I cannot up grade my OS with incurring the loss of programs I use everyday for my business due to incompatability issues.
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use Migration Assistant and everything would work. But it didn't transfer any of my applications.
Just to be clear - you said "Migration Assistant", but did you really use "Migration Assistant" or rather "Setup Assistant"? When setting up a new Mac, you will be prompted after installing the system to transfer your data - and that would be the Setup Assistant. if you first create your account, and then transfer, you will be using "Migration Assistant". The "Setup Assistant" is greatly preferable, since it will keep the identity of the user account.
But it didn't transfer any of my applications.
The Setup Assistant or Migration Asistant lets you choose what to transfer. DId you enable to transfer your applications?
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Ronny

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Thanks to all who replied. I resolved my issue, but it took a few hours' work. This solution works well if you can't afford to reset iPhone to solve your problems because the calendar data isn't yet in iCal and the contact data isn't yet in Address Book properly. In other words, if you reset iPhone to get the syncing back in order, you'll lose the very data you need to get into your Mac.
After researching tools to export Outlook data, here's what I did:
1) Bought a software package called O2M Mail Converter for Windows Outlook (www.littlemachines.com) for $10
2) Install and run O2M on the Windows box. The application allows you to properly export any Outlook data to a file that can be imported by iCal, Mail, etc. It worked beautifully...totally worth $10
3) I chose ONLY my calendar items; I wasn't interested in any of gazillions of emails I have at work. However, you can export as much or as little of your Outlook data as you like.
4) Put the export file on a flash drive and copied to my Mac
5) Imported the file into iCal
6) Spent about two hours cleaning up all the data in iCal so that Personal, Work, Birthdays/Anniversaries, etc. are properly recorded.
7) Reset iPhone to factory defaults (this was also critical for solving a problem with Camera that plagued me since the 1.1.2 update)
8) Set iTunes sync options for the proper iCal calendars, contacts, media, etc., then sync'd iPhone with iCal and Address Book (which I also spent a few hours cleaning up after importing everything from Entourage).
Everything on iPhone now works beautifully (even my camera)! Worth all the time, but it took most of my Saturday afternoon.
Hit me back if you have any questions.

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I totally agree. It would seem that since they sync all of the other parts of Outlook they would do the same for Notes. In fact if you think about it, they are not backing up the built in Notes so it probably was the last item on the list of todos. Probably in the next release of iTunes.
A work around would be to create a contact for the more important notes and then do a sync. Use Notes for the last name and the subject for the first name. That way they would be close together.
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TS4118 how to sync calendar/contacts with imac, ipad, & iphone

I am having issues syncing with all of my products and would love some assistance, please.
I have the new ipad and the iphone 5. I also have an imac running Mac OS X (version 10.6.8). I can sync the ipad and iphone 5 with icloud but I end up with a lot of duplicates. Nothing seems to be syncing with the imac.
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