Microsoft GZA-00006 Sync Services, Microsoft Exchange Server, Entourage item Other application

Office 2008 Technical Reference

Sync Services

Sync Services is a central database on the user's computer that keeps track of all the applications and devices that share information. Users can use Sync Services to synchronize Entourage calendar events, tasks, notes, and address book contacts with other applications, such as the Macintosh Address Book, iCal, and MobileMe.

After users synchronize their Entourage contacts with the Macintosh Address Book and their Entourage events and tasks with iCal, users can use iSync, an application that is included with Mac OS X, to synchronize all of these items with an iSync-compatible mobile phone or PDA, or use iTunes to synchronize them with iPod.

With a MobileMe account, users can use Sync Services to share Entourage items with others or with Entourage on another computer.

Notes

•To use Sync Services, users must have Mac OS X version 10.4.3 or later.

•Only one Entourage identity can use Sync Services at a time.

•Entourage can synchronize only one calendar and one address book at a time.

•Fields that exist in other applications but not in Entourage are not synchronized.

Users can use Sync Services to synchronize the following Entourage items with the following applications:

Entourage item	Other application
Events	iCal and MobileMe
Tasks	iCal and MobileMe
Notes	Entourage through MobileMe
Contacts	Macintosh Address Book and MobileMe

Microsoft Exchange Server

When they are using a Microsoft Exchange account in Entourage, users' e-mail messages, contacts, calendar items, and other Microsoft Exchange folders are synchronized automatically. User information is always up to date in Entourage and on the server running Microsoft Exchange Server. However, there are other Entourage items that are not automatically synchronized. The following sections list Entourage items that synchronize and do not synchronize with the Exchange server.

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