Thursday, March 20, 2008

Sync All of Your Calendar and Your W810i Organizer

  • Initially, I just want my mobile to give me an alert when I have a meeting. I had my schedule in my office server's outlook. So, it;s not possible to share it online directly.
  • Then, I thought of exporting it to Google Calendar, thinking that later I will be able to sync my Sony Ericsson w810i somehow.
  • So, I tried first the new tool from Google i.e. Google Calender Sync, which is tool for syncing outlook and GCal two-way. I installed it but, some how it was giving me the error due to, I think the operating system. I had Microsoft Server 2003 and it only work with XP and vista.
  • And the main problem I had with this syncing is I was not able to access, any of my office data or even mail, from my home.
  • Then I tried various softwares (even I don't remember the names of all of them). Few I remember are Syncmycal, Companionlink, Oogsync etc. But I couldn't succeed.
  • Then after wasting a whole day in experiments on many ideas, at the end of the day, an idea stroked.
  • I exported all of my outllook calender data to an .CSV file. That can be done by going to File->Import Export on outlook.
  • Then on Gcal side, I imported that .CSV file by going on the add->import calender and I was almost done. All of my schedule from outllok was there on Gcal.
  • There was one problem in this import-export. I had to attend meetings with people from different time zones. SO, when it's organized from my time zone, there was no error. But when a person from different time zone organizes the meeting, then the .CSV file stores the time as that time-zone, even though on my outlook calender it shows correct time.
  • So, for that I dint have any solution. I just opened that .CSV file in excel and it's a very simple formate, where you can identify all of your meetings time. So, I changed all of my time and then saved it and again imported it into the Gcal.
  • So, I was on a half way to sync my office's outlook schedule with my w810i. The w810i, I can connect it to home only.
  • For syncing between w810i and Gcal, i dint had much problem. Through a little googling, I came to know that the MyPhoneExplorer software, which I was already using, provides a direct sync with outlook, Rainlander, Thunderbird-Lightning and GCal.
  • I had already synced my Thunderbird with Lightening add-on to my GCal. So, I used that option of "MyPhoneExplorer" to sync my w810i with GCal. So, after a long research of one full day, I could sync my w810i with my outlook of server of office.

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