> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org]
> On Behalf Of john boris
>
> My $WORK just replaced my Blackberry with an iPhone 5 and we went to
> Outlook 2010 on the Desktop so now I have an issue. I have two calendars,
> one on Google and One in Outlook. I want to keep these synced up and also
> on my iPhone. this was easy with the Blackberry and our old system
> (Groupwise) but now all I see when I google it is links to software and
> outdated messages on how to do it.
>
> Has anyone done this? I rather have a free solution.
A few years ago, I did the same exact thing. Here's the info you're missing:
With a blackberry, there is only one calendar. If you sync it to outlook (or
whatever), then you sync it to outlook (or whatever.) So if you sync your
blackberry with multiple calendars (google and outlook) then you are indirectly
syncing outlook to google, and vice-versa.
With android and apple, that's not the way it works. With android and apple,
you tell the *device* to connect to multiple accounts. The device displays
them both, merged together, and syncs them both locally, but in fact, keeps
them separate.
While you might not necessarily like this, there are some good reasons to do
so. Each calendar system has different limitations. For example, in google,
you can set multiple reminders for the same item, which is something outlook
can't do. And in outlook, you can make a recurrence occur indefinitely, which
can't be done in google. ("Forever" in google is some number of years ... I
think 5 years.) And there's a bunch of other stuff, like categories, and
responses, tasks, etc, which are not fully supported by the *other* providers'
calendar system, and even less so by your phone.
If you want always access from anywhere, the obvious thing to do is use your
phone. But if that doesn't cut it for you ... consider the web interface to
both gmail and OWA. And if that *still* doesn't cut it for you, I think you'll
need to look for a 3rd party app, or cloud service, which will sync a google
account with an exchange account. I'm sure they're out there somewhere. But
rarely needed, because most people are content to just use their phone, keeping
the google & exchange accounts separate.
The most common usage model is: People have a gmail personal account, and a
work exchange account. Which they *want* to be separate.
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