Just to clarify, the new BlackBerry models (Q10/Z10/etc) also work the same way android and apple do.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > 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 outdated messages on how to do it.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. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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