Synch MS Outlook calendar, with Android and iPad calendar

I should have mentioned in my post above that I use aCalendar app on my android phone and android tablet. Here is a link to aCalendar.

I give this app a very, very high score!!!! Works great and the free version is more than you need or want.

JJnLilly wrote:
Outlook 2003 will not sync. I upgraded to Office 2010 and can now sync my iPhone/iPad and Outlook.

What synch program will not synch with Outlook 2003?

I use Google Apps Sync for Outlook. The email and the calendar sync fine.

I should have read better. My calendar that it syncs is a google calendar already in the cloud.

Just do what I and many have done, just dump outlook and move everything to google (email, calendar, contacts) Once you get used to the browser-based email, calendar, and contacts... your life will be much easier...

IMHO, of course. Your mileage may vary.

SkiingSixPack wrote:
Just do what I and many have done, just dump outlook and move everything to google (email, calendar, contacts) Once you get used to the browser-based email, calendar, and contacts... your life will be much easier...

IMHO, of course. Your mileage may vary.

If I do that I become completely dependent on Internet coverage. I live in an isolated area and while I have coverage at home it is not so good when I am out in the city. In addition when traveling I don't want to be dependent on slow Internet access. With Outlook I can download emails, leave the Internet and work on them and send the results the next time I am on.

There is another, more personal and perhaps irrational reason for not liking the cloud. I am old enough to remember taking punch cards to a central computer center and later working on dumb terminals. I was completely dependent, and at the mercy, of these cloud like central IT functions. When the PC came along in the early 80's it was liberating. Suddenly I was in charge and not dependent. I am reluctant to return to depending on the cloud.

In addition, one cannot trust large companies to work in one's interest. A great example is Google withdrawing its support of the synch program and causing me this trouble. Who knows what Google and its like have in store for us in the future. I suspect it is to make us absolutely dependent on them and then begin to charge exorbitantly high fees, much like cable TV.

Anyway, we are all different and will like different solutions.

wgriswold wrote:
I have a problem and it is RV related because I want to use my phone calendar on the road instead of lugging along my laptop.

I want to maintain my 2003 MS Outlook calendar and automatically synch it with my Android calendar and my wife's iPad calendar.

I use Gmail and have been using the Google calendar to accomplish this. I would enter an appointment in Outlook and it would synch with Google calendar and then to the others. But Google has blocked the synching program so that no longer works. I suppose that I am a victim of the Microsoft Google wars.

Google is trying to force me to the cloud and their calendar program exclusively. I don't want to do that because the cloud is not always available when traveling.

One option is to switch everything to Apple. I don't want to do that because it would be expensive and I worry about the thousands of documents I have created with Microsoft programs.

Has anybody found a way to accomplish what I want now that Google has abandoned me?

yes. I use Companionlink to keep calendar data synced between our 2-iPhones, 1-iPad and Microsoft outlook 2007. give a look at the web and then give them a call. great folks to work with. and I have no connection to the company.

It took awhile but I figured how to sync Outlook 2003 calendar and contacts on my PC with my wife's iPad and my android phone.

First one must establish an account with Outlook.com and sync it with the Outlook on your computer. Now your desktop calendar and contacts are mirrored in the Outlook.com cloud. The process is described here:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olc-hotmail/sync-calendar-contacts-using-outlook-com/

Then it is easy to create an Outook.com account on the iPad and synch with Outlook.com calendar and contacts.

It is a little harder to synch Outlook.com with the android phone. Here is the process.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/to-go

The contacts are not as functional on Outlook.com or the iPad or android as on the PC. For example, categories are not carried over and I don't think you can edit the contacts on the phone

It is odd that Google drove me to a competitor by withdrawing support for syncing my PC Outlook calendar with its calendar. I suppose they have a reason but it escapes me.