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.
Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback
Looks like you can see these items in Entourage if you empty your cache and ask it to download the latest copy of exchange events from the calendar. A little bit of a pain, but it is a work around for now.