Sync Entourage to iCal

I have my Entourage preference set to sync the Entourage Calendar to iCal. The iCal does not have all of the events that are in Entourage. I tried Quitting both programs and then restarting but still they are no 'in sync'.
Is there another setting that I'm neglecting to do?
What is the mechanism that makes the two programs sync?

I don't know if this will work with Entourage 2008, but this has worked for me when I have episodic gremlins where iCal stops syncing with Entourage 2004.
1. First, back up both your iCal Entourage calender AND your Exchange calendar (to back up the Exchange calendar I typically have to have access to the Exchange server and make a copy of the calendar.
2. Go to Entourage Preferences and disable the sync with iCal. This involves navigate to Preferences - General Preferences - Sync Services and then unchecking the box to "synchronize events and tasks with iCal and .Mac"
3. Once the sync is turned off, go to your iCal and delete the existing Entourage calendar using the DELETE option either under EDIT or by right clicking the calendar.
4. Close iCal
5. Go back to Entourage, and turn the sync option back on again navigating to Preferences - General Preferences - Sync Services and then checking the box to "synchronize events and tasks with iCal and .Mac". After making the change, Click OK to save it.
6. Close Entourage
7. Reopen Entourage
8. Reopen iCal. When you opening iCal this time, the Entourage calendar will be rebuilt and this time hopefully without the gremlins or bugs that gummed up the works.
The above process typically lasts for me for 3-4 months before the gremlins strike again At that point, I simply repeat the process as needed. Good luck!
Charlie Brown

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I enabled sync services so that Entourage (the calendar I use) would send my calendar to iCal then publish it to .Mac.
For some reason, I have two Entourage calendars showing up on my iCal calendars.
Can I just delete the iCal calendars and resync or will that make me lost all my Entourage data?
Other suggestions?
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The isync database, as I called it, is really just the master database from which ical, address book, bookmarks, etc., are stored, and it's used for syncing with the .mac service. Entourage can sync with it too, just go to the Entourage menu, choose Preferences, and look under General Preferences for Sync Services. Then check the boxes you want -- I just wanted the contacts to be the same in Entourage and Address Book so I only checked that one. The calendar is kind of funky because iCal uses separate calendars to group events, and I think if you check that box, iCal will then get a new calendar called Entourage, or something like that, in which all the Entourage events will go to and from. That is, I think Entourage will sync only with that iCal calendar, but I could be wrong about that since I don't use it.
Once you check the contacts box, Entourage will populate with all the contacts in your Address Book, and I think if you don't already have contacts there (that is if you've only been using Entourage for your contacts) then it will ask you if you want to put all your Entourage contacts into Address Book. I just don't remember.
Surely someone else out there is more familiar with this, but it should get you started.

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I forget to mention Mobile Me.
I am trying to link all of the above and digitally integrate my Calenders. I recently purchased both the I-Mac and the I-Phone 4 and I just "broke-up" with PC after 25 years.
1.) Should I dump Entourage and just go with I-Cal?
2.) Does I-Cal have advantages over Google Calender and what are the drawbacks?
3.) I use I-Tunes extensively and it appears that it does not support Google Calenders. Is this accurate?

Hey littlemoney08,
You would first have to disable syncing calendars from Exchange on the iPhone. Just tap Settings> Mail, Contacts, Calendars> tap the Exchange account> Calendars OFF.
From page 13 of the iPhone User Guide:
+"Important: If you sync contacts or calendars using your Exchange or MobileMe+
+account, syncing for contacts or calendars in iTunes is turned off. Any contact or+
+calendar information on iPhone is replaced by the contacts and calendars from your+
+Exchange or MobileMe account."+
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhoneUserGuide.pdf
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670 will walk you through configuring Entourage, so that calendars can be synced to the iPhone.
-Jason

Is there any way to sync Entourage with iCal in the new version of Mobile Me?

So with the updated version of MobileMe, I have declined to upgrade because I use the all-in-one feature of Entourage. It looks like you can import data but that is not something I will do on a regular basis.Has anyone found a way around this problem as I consider it to be?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/kaywerty wrote:
A rather long winded way of asking if anybody knows if it's possible to have multi-windows open
It's not possible.
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Can't get entourage and ical to sync

Hi,
I've had a macbook for a while but got an iphone 3gs last week and I'm just trying to set it up. My addresses and contacts seem to be syncing to my iphone OK but not my entourage 2004 calendar. I have gone into entourage preferences and ticked all the synch boxes and when I open ical I have an entourage calendar but none of my appointments are on there (the only thing that is are public holidays and birthdays?).
When I tried to sync entourage with ical he just hung so I thought this may be due to number of entourage calendar entries. So I went onto entourage and changed it so that anything over 12 months old is deleted but now I have checked and I still have all my calendar entries on entourage from 2005 so that hasn't worked. How can I delete the old calendar entries?
So as I understand it in order for my calendar to be synced on my iphone it has to go through ical (even though I don't use that on my Macbook). As I can't get entourage to sync my calendar with ical I can't get my calendar onto my iphone at present which is a real pain.
Would I be better looking at mobileme or something similar or do I just need to setup entourage and ical differently?
As you can see I really need some help! All advice very gratefully received.
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BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING - BACK UP ALL YOUR DATA IN ENTOURAGE.
You can delete everything in iCal by deleting the calendar (Entourage or Personal or temp or whatever Calendar is there). You can delete everything in Address book either by highlighting all the contacts and hitting delete or by deleting the Address Book folder in Address Book.
The key in getting them to sync properly with Entourage is deleting all the preferences in your Library folder under <your user>. Delete anything with Microsoft Entourage in it. I also deleted iCal preferences and Address Book Preferences.
I also found it necessary to go to the Office folder and delete the sync services folder.
Also go to Entourage sync services and turn OFF syncing with iCal and Address Book. Exit Entourage.
Go to your application folder, isync - reset sync history (button at bottom of screen).
Then bring up Entourage, sync services, and reactivate syncing with iCal and Address Book.
Everything should work. I have been struggling with this the last week or two. I've had innumerable exchanges with MS who have said anything with syncing is not their problem it's an apple application. Through these discussion boards I pieced together all of the elements above. But be sure to back up anything you want to keep before you do any of this.
It should work. It did for me (at least last night and all day today). Good luck.

Entourage 2008 & iCal sync inaccurate free / busy status for events

On a campus using Exchange 2007, I am using Entourage 2008 and sync to iCal 3.0.2 (Leopard) via Sync Services in Entourage's preferences. Both Exchange 2007 and Entourage 2008 have only been installed in the last two months.
I have found that events which I mark as "free" in Entourage 2008 are changed to "busy" after a sync with iCal. The free / busy status is correct when the sync with Exchange takes place, but the status is incorrectly changed to busy every time the iCal sync takes place.
I need to put campus events, co-worker planned absences, and similar things on my calendar, but these items need to remain as "free" so that I can be scheduled during those times. This all worked correctly with Entourage 2004 and the older version of Exchange.
Does anyone know how to correct this behavior so that the free / busy status is not changed with a sync to iCal?

Sue,
Wish I could offer some good advice, but the easy syncing of iCal and Entourage 2008 so far has been impossible if not a nightmare.
When you go to import in Entourage and iCal is NOT listed as "another application", we are in HUGE trouble.
A real shame that in today's world of "New Media" and PDA's like iPhones and Blackberry that the two billionaires from Apple and MS did not provide us with easy and simple export/import/sync tools.
Maybe they should rename Office 2008 to Office 1984

I just wiped out my ENTIRE Entourage calendar syncing it with iCal. Help!

Hey there. I'm using Entourage 2004 and I foolishly decided to try syncing it with iCal using the Syncing pane in the Preferences Menu pictured below.
When I opened iCal to have it sync there was a dialogue with three choices and I chose the one that would have seemed to do the least damage. I can't remember now. The problem is, it wiped out my ENTIRE Entourage calendar. I didn't find this out until now when I brought the computer out of sleep. The last 4.5 years are gone. Absolutely nothing is there and the Office Notifications doesn't even start up.
Is there anyway to retrieve this at all? Can I rebuild the database or something? Anything? The kicker is iCal isn't even showing my dates from Entourage even though it started a new colour/calendar for it.
Please help!
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I need help with sync: Entourage calendar to iphone...

I presently have google contacts and calendars synced with the iphone, and I love it. I just got entourage 2004, and I love that too.
I basically want to use google as my backup online
I want to keep the settings as is for the contacts. I imported the contacts from google to address book, which syncs with entourage. I will just import contact from entourage to google, as needed.
I'm stumped with the calendar. I want to input info from entourage, and the iphone and have them sync together. I would like for it to back up to google, but I can live without, as long as the iphone and entourage will update each other.
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Events should behave the same way as the contacts--sync them to iCal and then the iPhone will pick them up.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1670
But for more detail, probably best to ask in the Entourage forum here:
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Entourage/
I don't know if there is a way to sync the Entourage calendar to the Google calendar--ask either on the Entourage forum or somewhere there are specialists in google calendar.

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I have been using and syncing Entourage forever, and been syncing to iCal and Address for several years, especially since I've had my iPhone.
For some reason, and it seems very recent, no problem Syncing to iCal from Entourage, but I cannot Sync contacts to Address Book and vice versa. I have iCloud switched off, am on 10.7 and usually know what I'm doing.
I have tried deleting all Address Book contacts, resetting Sync Services in Entourage (after deleting all the relevant Preference Files) but nothing seems to work.
If anyone has a clue I'd be very grateful.

Not sure if you did everything in the correct order.
First, uncheck the Sync Contacts and Addresses in Entourage Preferences.
Quit Entourage and Apple Calendar and Address Book.
As you have Mountain Lion, I assume you know that to access your Library you have to press Option before you select Go in the finder?
Make sure you delete every preference file stated above, don't leave any out.
Remember to log out in the Apple menu. After you log back in, open up Entourage, select Preferences/Syn Services/ check the contact and address boxes, then (my preference) delete Entourage info.
Quit Entourage. Go and make a cup of coffee or watch some grass grow somewhere! If nothing happens in about half an hour, you still have a problem. But I would be amazed if this doesn't fix the issue.
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Entourage alarms, iCal and iSync.

Hi,
I have events in an Entourage calendar. I sync these to iCal (using the Sync features in Entourage). An alarm on a calendar event in Entourage results in the iCal event having an alarm defined as a "Message".
I then use iSync to sync these to my phone. Unfortunately this means that my phone has a silent alarm for the event. I'd like it to have an audible alarm.
The only way I can see to do this is to have the iCal alarm changed to make a sound.
Is there a way to set the Entourage imported alarm type set to a sound rather than message only?

I am getting a good bit of help with this in the iSync forum, so I'm going to close this one out on the iCal side.

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I use Outlook and id like to sync it with iCal so that i can use iCloud to keep my calendar updated on my iPhone 4. The thing is that when I create an event on Outlook I want it to fall into an iCloud calendar on iCal. How do I do this?

Grateful TL,
You will probably need to access your Exchange server via Entourage to get the Calendar. If you are running a recent update of Entourage, Entourage can sync to your iCal calendar using SyncServices. SyncServices are used in conjunction with iSync or iTunes to sync with devices. Resetting Sync History is often a good troubleshooting step to try with any syncing issues.
As for your syncing with your Treo, that may be best asked in the iSync forum. However, generally it may work, but if it doesn't the iSync devices page suggests using other software.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html
If you Treo is Palm OS based, you may be able to set it up like any other Palm OS device and sync. These article give instructions on setting it up to sync via USB or Bluetooth:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302120 (USB)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302227 (Bluetooth)
If your Palm Treo was provided by Verizon, it may have come with syncing disabled, in favor of Verizon's over the air syncing service. This article explains how to enable syncing so that it can Sync via iSync and Palm Desktop:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302064
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Sync Entourage and Outlook

Hello,
I am currently using a POP3 email account and I would like to be able to access emails and also share calendar, contacts and tasks between MS Outlook on a Windows XP and Entourage on OS X. I have not been able to find a way to read the same email on both computers.
Any ideas?
Cheers

G'day, and welcome to the forums.
Although both products are from Microsoft, there is no way to do what you want using a POP 3 email account.
You can sync Entourage to Address Book/iCal and then use MobileMe to sync calendars and contacts between OS X and Windows. However tasks won't come through for Outlook.
If you want mail synchronisation, the best bet is to use an IMAP email account (such as Gmail, Fastmail or MobileMe).
Cheers,
Rodney

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I am using Entourage as my main environment for mail, addresses and calendar info. Unfortunately I can't sync Entourage with my mobile (Sony Ericsson P1i). So I started using iCal and Address Book of Leopard. This has proven to be really very painful! I switched on the Sync Services in the preferences of Entourage ..... don't do it!!! It gave all kind of unexpected results and at the end it hangs-up Entourage when you access Calendar, you have to go back to an earlier version of the Entourage database (when you backed it up with Time Machine at least otherwise you have a serious problem).
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