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The iPhone has definitely been successful in causing me to take another look at a few iApps I haven’t really used very much, namely iCal. iCal is pretty good, but I don’t like that it sends invites from only one account (I know you can hack this, but still…), and of course the issue that iCal doesn’t connect to Microsoft Exchange natively (and there’s a way to do this too, using Snerdware’s Groupcal). These are all fixable, however, Entourage does this out of the box, so path of least resistance. Entourage, though is Rosetta-ware, until the new version of Office comes out and it’s a little bloaty, but it does work well.

Enter iPhone - it’s set up to sync with iCal, and it says in the documentation, Entourage, and lo and behold, it works. People have been asking about it, so I’m posting my experience here.

Here’s a gallery of relevant screen shots, click to view:

Here’s what I did:

1. In Entourage, Go to Preferences, Sync Services, and check the box for the calendar you want to sync to (I’m choosing to not bring Exchange into this right now)
2. In iCal, create a Calendar named “Entourage”. I think if you don’t create this, it will be created for you anyway.

Voila. Entourage and iCal are talking. And they like each other too.

3. In iTunes, with your iPhone connected to your Mac, click on the Info Tab, and scroll down to Calendars
4. Note the setup here is a little goofy. Click on “Sync Selected” Calendars, and both Entourage and Personal
5. Change the “New events” setting to Entourage

4 and 5 I figured out because when I only had an “Entourage” calendar and added a new even from iPhone, it created a “Personal” calendar, which did not sync back to Entourage. When I clicked on “Sync Selected,” it allowed me to change the “new items” setting to Entourage

So…it works now. iPhone talks to iCal which talks to Entourage.

As I said in #1, I’m not interested in syncing all the way back to Exchange right now, but this should get anyone started on that path.

And the iPhone is an incredible device. It will be that much more incredible when it can do MMS. Thank you, Apple, Inc!

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