For goodness sake, as a single user you're not going to get an Exchange server! You could buy about 20 iPAQs and Treos for the same price.
Missing Sync has a Windows Mobile sync software (with a new version just out for Windows Mobile 5). In conjunction with Entourage 11.2.3's SyncServices implementation that should get you most of the way. Except for categories. Yes, my Export-Import Entourage scripts will transfer contacts, calendar, tasks and notes from Entourage to Outlook Windows, and vice versa and let you ignore mail completely. But it's not designed for regular synching - at the time it was written, nothing but contacts even exposed their modification dates to AppleScript. In the Export-Import package is a document called "Synchronization.rtf" which explains how to do it, but it's somewhat cumbersome. (Although less complicated to use after setting it up than it sounds.) I wouldn't want to do it more than once a week or so. I suggest that you'd be better off either forgetting about categories and using Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, or getting yourself a Palm and using Missing Sync for Palm wit the Entourage Conduit, if you really need categories. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - 2004, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Jim Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:35:09 -0700 > To: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Entourage:mac Talk" > <[email protected]> > Conversation: Scripts vs. Exchange Server question > Subject: Scripts vs. Exchange Server question > > Paul (or others with opinions or suggestions), > > I have struggled intermittently for several years to come up with a handheld > solution that would permit me to stay on Mac OS AND have access to a > PocketPC, because there's vertical market software that I run that runs ONLY > on PocketPC. > > At one time, I used your scripts, Paul, to populate an Outlook database > within VPC. Then I bought a G5 and couldn't synchronize for the several > months Microsoft needed to develop a G5-compatible version of VPC. > > Once that happened, I limped along again, but periodically I'd need to hard > reset my iPAQ after attempting to convince the Mac standing between the iPAQ > and the Windows OS running in emulation. Finally I gave up. > > Then, this week, things suddenly looked brighter. A native solution to get > my data from handheld to Windows (Boot Camp). I haven't seen reports of > ActiveSync 4.1 success or failure yet, but I took the plunge, bought a > MacBook Pro AND a WM5 device. That project stalled when I discovered the new > laptop was defective (I think the data cable probably isn't seated on the > removable media burning drive - the computer can't see the device, even > though it swallows media placed in its "mouth", then spins a bit, but won't > spit the blank media back out no matter what incantations I try). > > Assuming my friendly Apple store solves this problem, the next issue is > getting data from Entourage to the Windows environment - either directly, or > through an Exchange Server (people have suggested 4smartphone.net as an > inexpensive Exchange Server). I've never used an Exchange Server, but from > what I read in Entourage help, my categories won't make the leap (bad), and > it sounds as though my email will ALWAYS synchronize (I don't really want to > do that - I don't need old saved email messages on my WM5 device). > > Am I understanding those limitations correctly. Can I synchronize just > contact and calendar information? Is there a work-around for Entourage > Categories? > > Paul, am I recalling correctly that your scripts CAN move category > information to the Windows environment? > > Thanks so much in advance for any help or alternative ideas. > > Jim Robertson > -- > > > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
