Syncing ms Outlook w/ epic! Please help!

[DonnaJ415]

So firstly I would just like to say thank you in advance to anyone who helps me out on this. I don't venture over to the epic forms much but I respect anyone who loves Android as a platform so... weather you love an evo or an epic... go us!

Anywhoo... so my mother in law just upgraded from a palm treo to an epic and she really is quite technologically .... um... slow. She uses Outlook for her business email for contacts, notes, and everything under the sun...and her life would be devastated If she could not import ALL OF IT.

As of yet I have yet to find a clear Syncing program or list of instructions on how to do this... can any of my Android loving brethren help a sister out so I can get my mother in law off my back?

I need some help Pleeeeease!

life is just evoliscious!

 

[DroidXcon]

So firstly I would just like to say thank you in advance to anyone who helps me out on this. I don't venture over to the epic forms much but I respect anyone who loves Android as a platform so... weather you love an evo or an epic... go us!

Anywhoo... so my mother in law just upgraded from a palm treo to an epic and she really is quite technologically .... um... slow. She uses Outlook for her business email for contacts, notes, and everything under the sun...and her life would be devastated If she could not import ALL OF IT.

As of yet I have yet to find a clear Syncing program or list of instructions on how to do this... can any of my Android loving brethren help a sister out so I can get my mother in law off my back?

I need some help Pleeeeease!

life is just evoliscious!

Do you know how to do it at all or are you just having problems getting it to work...

if its just finding a program , try Touchdown if the native exchange is not working

 

[DonnaJ415]

I am not gonna lie, I'm a Google person... my setup was a breeze. I have no idea how to do this ....

life is just evoliscious!

 

[DroidXcon]

I am not gonna lie, I'm a Google person... my setup was a breeze. I have no idea how to do this ....

life is just evoliscious!

you are going to need the following from either her or her IT admin at work

1. Login ID (example...domain\username)

2. Email Address and password

3. Server Name (ex. mail1.merryxmas.com/exchange)

 

[DonnaJ415]

maybe I didn't give enough information... I apologize... it was a long day at the office...I'm sure everyone understands lol.

She is an insurance investigator so she doesn't have a corporate email account. She uses an AOL.mail that she has synced to Outlook, which then the program holds all her notes, contacts etc.... she needs to snyc. Her epic into the actual program, and she HAS TO HAVE access to her notes.


life is just evoliscious!

 

[DroidXcon]

maybe I didn't give enough information... I apologize... it was a long day at the office...I'm sure everyone understands lol.

She is an insurance investigator so she doesn't have a corporate email account. She uses an AOL.mail that she has synced to Outlook, which then the program holds all her notes, contacts etc.... she needs to snyc. Her epic into the actual program, and she HAS TO HAVE access to her notes.


life is just evoliscious!

oh well this i can not help you , im sorry

 

[DonnaJ415]

Yeah I have not clue

life is just evoliscious!

 

[deboss]

try Android Sync Software - Sync contacts, calendar, tasks and notes -- CompanionLink Software

 

[DonnaJ415]

try Android Sync Software - Sync contacts, calendar, tasks and notes -- CompanionLink Software

I am tying this now .... I have a feeling this is gonna be painfully bad.

life is just evoliscious!

 

[special_k]

I know you can export all of her contacts and calendar events to CSV files which then can be imported into gmail and just synced from there. You should get her to switch to gmail/google calendar anyway.

 

[HeyBeerManTX]

I have my Hotmail account set up on my Epic using exchange. ( Hotmail Exchange Instructions). The question that I have is with her Outlook being on her local machine only, I'm doubtful there is a server that has all the information she's needing available for the phone to sync with. Take that thought with a grain of salt though, as I'm not an IT guy.

Otherwise, with my Hotmail account set up through Exchange, I have all my contacts, calenders, and folders accessible. I'm not sure about a notes option asi don't use that feature.

 

[Q-fugee]

Ah, so your mother-in-law is of the connect-via-USB-cable old school of desktop sync. Like Active Sync. Or Palm Connect. Touchdown is the best Microsoft client, but it only syncs over-the-air; it does not support desktop Active Sync.

These Android devices are really designed to contact the cloud, never to tether again. But there are a few third-party apps that may help:

Using USB to sync Android phone to Outlook calendar and contacts - Google Mobile Help

None of these are as good as over-the-air syncing with the cloud. For full android goodness, the best route is a cloud solution. I'm not familiar with AOL mail, so I don't know if she can push her contacts and calendar from the desktop to AOL and then download it all to her phone. If AOL supports it, and there's an AOL client for Android, that's the way to go. And she probably doesn't want to hear "replace AOL with Gmail."

Now, Gmail itself can pull mail from a wide variety of ISPs and mail servers and mix it with your Gmail inbox. If it can grab her email to and from AOL, then push it to her phone, she could also configure the desktop Outlook client to sync calendar and contacts to Gmail and push down to her phone that way.

Good luck,

--Qfg

Update: The answer may be yes. There is an AOL mail app from AOL for Androids in the Marketplace. And it will sync AOL-hosted calendars, too. Now, I'm still not sure how to push from Desktop Outlook up to AOL. But if you can, this app will then pull it down to the phone.

Update 2: You can push contacts and calendar from Desktop Outlook to AOL, then download Mail, Calendar and Contacts to the phone with AOL's app. The yellow-sticky-note feature in Outlook will not sync this way. But that's the no-cable always-synced solution.

 

[deboss]

@DonnaJ415: I've used this for a while. If you have any issues, let me know. I'll be glad to help.