I spoke to a sales rep at a company called Intermedia that hosts Exchange Servers for companies. He said they are in the process of developing a subsidiary of their company that will specifically target iphone users to sync with their desktop Outlook or Entourage. The website is http://www.hostmyiphone.com , right now there is just a splash page up but it says the service is “coming soon.”

Mike, you can sync the iPhone with a PC as it uses iTunes as the synchronization software. Using iTunes, you can sync your Outlook e-mail, contacts and calendar. No hoops.

I’m looking at a Iphone. I just run on PC’s.
At home and at work. Can you Sync your Outlook to the Iphone? Most of these threads talk about Iphone –> Mac. I’m not that up to speed on all of this.
Iphone –> PC is there hoops to jump through?

I have the same problem with my work email being Exchange-based. While it is not a perfect solution, I found that I have been successful in using Entourage to first sync with my Exchange account using the built in web access. You can then have Entourage automatically import your calendar and contacts to iCal and Address Book, thus getting them to the iPhone. As I said, not a perfect solution, but it has been working pretty good for me for more than a month.

I also tried Plaxo at one point, but I had to dump it because it was creating duplicate phone numbers for some of my contacts.

I sync my Outlook calendar from my Vista machine to my Mac machine via Plaxo’s service, and that’s where my iPhone gets updated (on the Mac at sync time, since I have 64-bit Windows and iTunes pretty much blows and won’t run on that platform).

Works great. Also allows me to keep all my contacts in sync (both directions).

greg

I’d agree since the online calendar is hosted at a secure site, but if you can’t authenticate or subscribe with an iCal compatible client, what good is it?

I’m sure this approach would probably work if not for the Passport authentication method…