Comments on: Syncing Google Calendar with Entourage 2008

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:51:33 +0000

Hi Marc, check out: http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2008/02/04/thunderbird-entourage

Also it’s good to note I came back to Thunderbird.

By: Marc Stress

Marc Stress — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:31:48 +0000

Hi Thomas ::

I’m interested to know why you dropped Thunderbird/Sunbird/Lightning in favor of Entourage.

We’ve recently adopted Google Apps at my office, and are thinking of going the other direction so we can have shared calendars on our desktop.

I’m just wishing the folks at Mailplane would add gCal functionality to thier app. I think that would be the killer Mac app!

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Top 5 Reasons Why I Dropped Entourage 2008 | Blog on a Stick — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:24:40 +0000

[...] up iCal and it’d ask me which even was right; the one in iCal or Entourage? Then, trying to update my Google calendar online was another issue in [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:34:04 +0000

I tried the spanning sync to keep google calendars in sync with entourage 2004, via the entourage/ical sync services. It works for awhile, but then things get corrupted. For now I have given up and gave up using entourage calendar in favor of google calendar and ical - for now. The whole reason I use entourage calendar is that I lease an exchange server slot with a service company, keep my data there, and then it gets pushed/sync’d with my windows mobile device automatically, wirelessly, and in real time. Sadly, I have to give that up for now.

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:07:14 +0000

Sounds like my manual method is the best bet for now.

By: Paul Barnard

Paul Barnard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:40:47 +0000

Spaning sync, ical and entourage 2008 do not play nice together. The Sync services gets corrupted and then nothing will sync after that. I strongly advise against trying this combination. I have down graded entourage to 2004 (and that was not easy…) and all is well in the Syncing world.

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:13:36 +0000

Thomas,

We haven’t done any testing ourselves against Entourage 2008, but we plan to once we get Spanning Sync v1.2 out the door (which should be very soon). Watch the Spanning Sync Blog (blog.spanningsync.com) for updates.

Thanks,
Charlie

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:50:55 +0000

Charlie, if everything is fixed with Entourage 2008, I may just purchase it. However, I want to be sure before I do so I think I’ll hold out a bit longer. Is Spanning Sync doing any official testing?

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:03:45 +0000

You’re right–it should “just work” to set Entourage to sync with iCal and then use Spanning Sync to sync iCal with Google Calendar. However, Entourage 2004 had a bug that could cause database corruption when used in this configuration.

We have several users using Spanning Sync with Entourage 2008 and none of them have yet run into this problem, so hopefully it’s fixed, but we can’t be sure. If you decide to try this, please back up your data first, and let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Charlie
Spanning Sync

By: ptackbar

ptackbar — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:58:17 +0000

I would try setting Entourage to sync events and tasks with iCal (Preferences -> General Preferences -> Sync Services) and then use Spanning Sync to synchronize iCal with Google Calendar.

I’ve been using Spanning Sync (with just iCal and Google Calendar) for a while and it works very well.