J&P Group > J&P InfoSol > Applications > Synchronizing (PIM-PDAs/Phones)
Area first started 2009-07-08 to gather various information around synchronizing personal information between email apps, PDA, smart phones.
Related topics (in separate sections):
NOTE:This area focuses on synchrozing PDAs/Smart Phones with desktop/laptops. In regard to synchronizing data, there are multiple different areas that can be:
Devices | What | Where |
PDA/Smart Phone with Computer | Contacts, Calendar, Notes, emails, ... | This section/page |
Computer with Computer | Files and directories, also sometimes settings, bookmarks, ... | not yet documented by J&P |
Application, Package |
Type | Cost indic. |
Notes |
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iSync | Appl. | Free | For mobile devices excluding iPhones. (Part of Mac OS X)
"Starting with Mac OS X v10.4, much of this functionality has been moved into the Sync Services framework, which developers can use to incorporate synchronization into their own applications. iSync, however, retains responsibility for synchronizing mobile handsets, Palm OS organizers and compatible smartphones. Since the release of iTunes 4.8, the responsibility for synchronizing iPods has been delegated to iTunes. Synchronization with MobileMe is now the domain of MobileMe Sync, accessible through a System Preferences pane." [wikipedia] |
iTunes | Appl. | Free | For iPhones (and iPod Touch). Standard part of Mac OS X; also available for MS Windows.
Primarily a powerful application for managing and playing multimedia (music, video, ...), buying media from iTunes Store, ...
But also the application for synchronizing - and configuration of - information between iPhones and Mac.
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Image Capture | Appl. | Free | For getting photos and videos from iPhone to Mac computer. Part of Mac OS X. Useful to run to get photos/videos taken with iPhone onto computer and don't want to have iTunes synchronizing both ways. To use:
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Background | Behind the scene applications ### | ||
Conflict Resolver |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_Resolver
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Microsoft Sync Services | Appl. | (Part of Office) | Behind the scene application - only mentioning it as it can show up in Activity Monitor as process that occasionally can be using some CPU processing power.
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Microsoft Sync Services.app/ |
SyncServer | Appl. | (Free) | Behind the scene application - only mentioning it as it can show up in Activity Monitor as process that occasionally can be using some CPU processing power.
/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SyncServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SyncServer |
Other | archived - no longer used by J&P; kept for reference | ||
Missing Sync | Appl. | $40 | From Mark/Space - www.markspace.com
For a long time one of the better 3rd party solutions for fixing all problems synchronizing different devices can pose.
Versions for Apple iPhone, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, ... exist that adds capabilities that otherwise may be missing.
Applications often starts around $40. |
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Microsoft Sync Services.app/
From About data synchronization in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Administrator’s Guide (under Office 2008 Technical Reference).
Synchronization Method | ||||
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Technology | Sync Services | Microsoft Exchange Server | IMAP | POP |
Original/General | Mac-centric | Microsoft-centric | general open standard |
general open standard |
Entourage Item (Bold: name as used in Entourage) |
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Main Functions | Sync Services | Microsoft Exchange Server | IMAP | POP |
Mail, Messages | No | "All Microsoft Exchange mail folders, including subfolders, can be accessed by using Entourage and are continually synchronized with the Exchange server automatically. Depending on the network, new messages either display automatically as they arrive or display after Entourage completes a check for new messages on the server once every minute." | Yes | Yes |
Address Book, Contacts | Address Book & MobileMe |
"All Microsoft Exchange account address books and their contacts in Entourage are continually synchronized with the Exchange server automatically." | no | no |
Calendar, Events | iCal & MobileMe |
"All Microsoft Exchange account calendars and their events in Entourage are continually synchronized with the Exchange server automatically. NoteEntourage 2008 does not support Microsoft Office Outlook counter-proposal invitations. If an Entourage user sends a meeting request to an Outlook user and the invitee makes a counter proposal, the counter proposal appears as text in the Entourage message body. The Entourage user must make any meeting time adjustments manually." |
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Notes | Entourage through MobileMe |
No "Entourage notes are not synchronized with the Exchange server." |
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Tasks | iCal & MobileMe |
No "Entourage tasks are not synchronized with the Exchange server." |
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Support Functions | Sync Services | Microsoft Exchange Server | IMAP | POP |
Categories | - | No "Category information that users set in Entourage is not synchronized with the Exchange server." |
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To Do flags | ? | "Messages and contacts that have been flagged as To Do Items are synchronized with the Exchange server, along with due dates, start dates, reminder dates, and completed dates." | ||
Rules | - | No config from Mac "Although rules stored on the Exchange server will run, users cannot change or create new Exchange server-based rules by using Entourage." |
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Calendar | X | X | 'events & tasks w/ iCal & .mac' | iCal.app |
-multiple different | ### | no | - | Yes |
-week numbers | Yes | Yes | - | no |
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Contacts | X | X | 'contacts w/ Address Book & .mac' | Address Book.app |
Journal | X | - | ### | ### |
Notes | X | X | 'Entourage Notes with .mac' | ### |
Projects | ### | X | - | ### |
Task, To Do list | X | X | 'events & tasks w/ iCal & .mac' | iCal.app |
Chat, IM | iChat.app | |||
Synchronizing | iSync.app | |||
ActiveSync® | Yes | |||
1&1 |
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NOTE: MobileMe is not ActiveSync but ActiveSync-like (src: Apple Launches MobileMe: ActiveSync + Web 2.0 Apps For the Rest of Us!, 2008-06-09, iPhoneBlog)
Address Book | Mac | (/Applications/Address Book.app) Can remove all categories - not used/not synchronized from/to Entourage anyway. Only obscures screens on iPhone and MobileMe web interface. |
iCal | Mac | ###(/Applications/iCal.app) Can remove all categories - not used/not synchronized from/to Entourage anyway. Only obscures screens on iPhone and MobileMe web interface. |
iTunes | Mac | Many tabs Summary [X] Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected [X] Sync only checked songs and videos [ ] ... [ ] ...
Info [X] Sync Address Book contacts (*) All contacts
[X] Sync iCal calendars ( ) All calendars (*) Selected calendars [X] Entourage [X] Do not sync events older than [ 30 ] days (default)
[X] Sync Safari bookmarks
[X] Sync Notes
... |
Entourage
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For iPhone, see Push Email on iPhone.
http://www.google.com/search?q=time+to+synchronize+entourage+with+address+book+mobileme
mactopia IT Pros: Introducing Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Administrator’s Guide (microsoft.com/mac/itpros/)
Entourage | |
Address Book | |
MobileMe | d http://www.me.com/contacts/ dd |
Change of address in Entourage
MobileMe
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http://www.google.com/search?q=ldap+mac+os+x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol
http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html
Use a free LDAP server with Address Book
Tue, Apr 29 2008 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by alexmathew
Syntax | Example | |
LDAP Server | ds1.us.freeldap.org | ds1.us.freeldap.org |
Search base | uid=USERNAME, ou=People, o=entic.net | uid=johsar978, ou=People, o=entic.net |
Port | 636 (encrypted over SSL) | |
Bind DN* | uid=USERNAME, ou=People, o=entic.net | uid=MyLDAPorgUsername, ou=People, o=entic.net |