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Sync Services
Sync Services is a central database on the user's computer that keeps track of all the applications
and devices that share information. Users can use Sync Services to synchronize Entourage calendar
events, tasks, notes, and address book contacts with other applications, such as the Macintosh
Address Book, iCal, and MobileMe.
After users synchronize their Entourage contacts with the Macintosh Address Book and their
Entourage events and tasks with iCal, users can use iSync, an application that is included with Mac
OS X, to synchronize all of these items with an iSync-compatible mobile phone or PDA, or use
iTunes to synchronize them with iPod.
With a MobileMe account, users can use Sync Services to share Entourage items with others or
with Entourage on another computer.
Notes
• To use Sync Services, users must have Mac OS X version 10.4.3 or later.
• Only one Entourage identity can use Sync Services at a time.
• Entourage can synchronize only one calendar and one address book at a time.
• Fields that exist in other applications but not in Entourage are not synchronized.
Users can use Sync Services to synchronize the following Entourage items with the following
applications:
Entourage item Other application
Events iCal and MobileMe
Tasks iCal and MobileMe
Notes Entourage through MobileMe
Contacts Macintosh Address Book and MobileMe
Microsoft Exchange Server
When they are using a Microsoft Exchange account in Entourage, users' e-mail messages, contacts,
calendar items, and other Microsoft Exchange folders are synchronized automatically. User
information is always up to date in Entourage and on the server running Microsoft Exchange
Server. However, there are other Entourage items that are not automatically synchronized. The
following sections list Entourage items that synchronize and do not synchronize with the Exchange
server.