[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Re: MSWM 2.0.2b2 (BETA) & Entourage

[Franco Principe]

Hi,

> 
> In your original "AACPS Leadership Conf" event you set the 
> reminder for 2 days. You want to be reminded 2 days before 
> the event so you can prepare. A very reasonable thing to want 
> to do. But, since this was a recurring event.
> The second occurrence alarm would occur before the previous 
> occurrence even ended, and the device doesn't allow that.
> 
> Entourage and iCal do allow that, so when we sync we have to 
> alert you of this in the log and we cannot sync that record. 
> We log the error, skip the record and keep syncing everything else.
> 

> Correct. Your reason for an alarm two days before the event 
> is not strange.
> The fact that someone at Microsoft said, the device can't 
> have an alarm for a recurring event before the end of the 
> previous occurrence is the strange part.
> 

Well I decided to try this out on Outlook 2003 - with the same
errors. You can't set the alarm 2 days before the event there
either!

> My point is that this is a unique example of how complex the 
> synchronization of data from iCal to the device can be. It's 
> more than just matching up the fields and passing them back 
> and forth, because of these types of device side limitations 
> and differences.

Thanks ken. I have to say, though I am not yet using MSWM, I am
starting to get a feel for the difficulties of sync'ing. There
is so much to consider - well done by your team.

I'm just keeping a watching eye on your list. I was thinking of
buying MSWM but I don't run the latest OS... But it is interesting
reading about people's experiences.

I still have a simple issue that the busy/free status can not be
updated. But that's the case with the other s/w as well. I have
become a believer that a PPC is not meant to sync with macs....

But well done on some great work! My hat off to your team now!

-F.