{"id":65,"date":"2010-10-05T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:48:33","slug":"qa-can-i-sync-my-outlookmac-calendar-with-sync-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/qa-can-i-sync-my-outlookmac-calendar-with-sync-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Can I sync my Outlook:Mac calendar with Sync Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does Outlook 2011 support calendar sync to sync services like Entourage did?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re correct: Entourage supported contacts and calendar sync via <a href=\"http:\/http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/macosx\/syncservices.html\">OS X Sync Services<\/a>. \u00a0Some heavy-duty users experienced recurring issues with self-duplicating items, which made for a pretty painful experience.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid these issues, we rebuilt our Sync Services support from the ground up for Outlook. \u00a0We set a very high quality bar, with the goal of avoiding those issues that our Entourage users faced. \u00a0For our initial v14.0.0 release, we got there with contacts. \u00a0But we didn&#8217;t get there with calendar. \u00a0Close, but no cigar. \u00a0Close wasn&#8217;t good enough, so we held off. \u00a0We wanted Outlook to be the most awesome Outlook ever. \u00a0We decided that we&#8217;d rather not support it on the initial release rather than have a version that didn&#8217;t meet our standards.<\/p>\n<p>We will add calendar sync in a future update. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a date to share yet for that. \u00a0The team is working hard on it, and I&#8217;ll post when it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris asked: Does Outlook 2011 support calendar sync to sync services like Entourage did? You&#8217;re correct: Entourage supported contacts and calendar sync via OS X Sync Services. \u00a0Some heavy-duty users experienced recurring issues with self-duplicating items, which made for a pretty painful experience. To avoid these issues, we rebuilt our Sync Services support from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/qa-can-i-sync-my-outlookmac-calendar-with-sync-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A: Can I sync my Outlook:Mac calendar with Sync Services?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office2011","category-outlookformac","category-qanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}