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Paul Berkowitz

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From: Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com>

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:04:11 -0700

Local: Fri, Sep 23 2005 2:04 pm

Subject: Re: Palm Sync after sp2

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Microsoft has already announced that they plan to integrate Entourage with
Tiger Sync Services, which will ultimately be much better than current Palm
Synching. Unfortunately, there are still Apple Tiger bugs which made this
impossible to effect this for this SP 2 update, the original plan. But that
only became apparent (that Apple couldn't fix the bugs in time for OS 10.4.1
or 10.4.2) after MS had already devoted some effort to it - effort they will
return to as soon as the Apple bugs are fixed. I think it's quite
understandable that they then had no time to drop other activity (which
would have resulted either in SP 2 not having many of the features it does,
or it still wouldn't be ready for months). I can't see that it makes much
sense devoting resources to upgrading the conduit (don't forget all the
"extra fields" of Palm OS 5) when the plan is actually to switch to Sync
Services. No sooner would they have finished the work than they'd be
scrapping it.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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> From: Joe Husk <j...@indiana.edu>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:23:55 -0500
> Conversation: Palm Sync after sp2
> Subject: Re: Palm Sync after sp2

> That would only be obvious if the conduit hadn't been updated to 11.2 for
> SP2. Given the radical changes included in SP2, it would be nice to have
> the option of which address book and calendar you want to sync.

> Unfortunately, those changes we're not added. So the current functionality
> is the same as it was 18 months ago. :)

> -joe

> On 9/22/05 11:37 PM, in article BF58D4AB.B02CB%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,
> "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:

>> On 9/22/05 5:13 PM, in article
>> 1h3b15c.1ayzqejiqbs06N%korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org, "Corentin Cras-Méneur"
>> <korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote:

>>> YNEM News <i...@ynem.org> wrote:

>>>> Where is the Conduit settings for the Exchange Conduit?

>>> I don;t think there is any such thing as the "exchange" conduit. The
>>> conduit we have is for Entourage and that's it. It does not even let you
>>> chose which of the address books and calendar to synch with...

>> For the obvious reason that there was only one calendar and address book
>> (the default one, which is now the local one) when the conduit was created
>> 18 months ago.

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