Mobile Calendar Predicament

[Guest Killian]

Not quite sure what I’m hoping to get out of this but thought best to ask and see what the wisdom of the Modaco community can suggest (flattery gets you everywhere!) :(

I’m having a few problems at work concerning my calendar. I run Microsoft Outlook and am constantly out the office and needing to check my diary. The problem is our IT team is refusing to install activesync for me so that I can sync my vario III up. I’m having to carry a paper diary which I often forget and leads to me booking meetings when I really shouldn’t have.

I was wondering if there is anyway that you can export a calendar? Perhaps to an email so that I can mail it to my hotmail and thus to my phone. I’m really not interested in getting work emails on the go (I try to avoid them anyway) but could really do with a mobile calendar situation.

I know I could use the device and my home computers outlook as the calendar but that’s not particularly helpful as colleagues need to be able to access my calendar to book or unbook appointments. Also, in doing so I’d have problems with constantly updating both computers and remembering which one is most up to date.

I’m sure you can see the predicament, I’m not even sure if there is a suitable way around it.

Any suggestions or ideas??

[Guest Monolithix]

Well you can certainly email appointments around, i'm not sure if it's compatible with Hotmail though...(only one way to find out :()

Would it be possible to use something like Google calendar synced from your PC and access it via the Google mobile client? (just a suggestion, no idea how feasible this actually is?! :D)

[Guest Killian]

Well I suppose that would work, though its not really as beneficial as a direct link into outlook. Maybe I'll just keep on at them until they give in :( Thanks anyway.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Unfortunately nothing springs to mind off the top of my head.

What you COULD do is sign up for a free Mail2Web live (Exchange) account, and use the provided free online exchange calendar functionality in the office, and have it push to your phone when you're out? Not ideal I guess, as you'd have to switch to the online client from Outlook.

Could you sign up for a real Exchange account (e.g. Sherweb) and use that? Advantage of going for the full monty is Outlook client support (assuming you are able to configure it).

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[Guest chucky.egg]

I have my work (Exchange 2003/Outlook) meeting invites forwarded on to my external, personal Exchange account. That works well and is a server-side rule so doesn't require me to be logged on.

[Guest Killian]

Had a look at the exchange server option though don't want to be paying to access work stuff. Will keep on at them and maybe go through the higher ups if I still have no luck.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Well it should work just as well through a regular POP3 email account I would think. I've just tried it with another of my accounts - looks like it works, but hard to tell as my POP3 email gets forwarded to my Exchange account too!