Exchange Calendar Somewhat Broken on iPhone OS 3.0
Posted by Kevin Hanson | Posted in Apple, Technology | Posted on 01-07-2009-05-2008
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The iPhone OS 3.0 software is really great, and it’s ALMOST good enough to be enterprise ready. You would think that after a couple years, Apple could get this right. Here are a couple issues I have. If I accept an exchange calendar invite on my phone, the event appears on my iPhone calendar, but not in my entourage calendar. That’s bad. Conversely, if I accept an event in Entourage, it pretty much instantly appears on my iPhone. They need to fix this.
Additionally, I use iCal for my personal calendaring and Exchange for my work calendaring. If I create a new event on my iPhone, it does not let me select which calendar to put the event on. It automatically assumes I want it on my exchange calendar (which of course, does not get sync’d back to entourage). So if I’m going to a baseball game on Saturday, I can’t add that to my personal calendar since the iPhone just assumes I want that on my work calendar, and even after I put it on my calendar, it doesn’t actually get sync’d back to my desktop client. Sheesh.
