I need more than one Exchange account because I have one calendar for myself, and then calendars for each of the people in the office that I do the scheduling for and the boardroom I do the bookings for.
So if you worked in my office, when you turned on your computer and booted up Outlook, you would see your e-mail folders, your calendar, your contact list, your task list, and your notes. Since I am your Executive Assistant, you have delegated your calendar to me as well. So if you are talking to Joe Blow, and want to set up an appointment, you add it to your calendar. If your wife wants you to take the kids to the zoo, you can add it to your calendar. If Jim Smith calls me and needs to set up an appointment with you, I just switch to your calendar in my Outlook folders, see when you are free, and add the appointment it. It automatically shows up on your calendar, on your iPad or Blackberry or whatever. You might call me from a client's office and say "You know that appointment with Joe Blow this afternoon? I've got a crisis going on, and I won't be able to get out there. Can you call him and reschedule for sometime next week? Oh, and by the way, I need Suzie Q's contact information, can you get that to me?" So I would call up Joe Blow and find out when he could see you next week and change the appointment on your calendar, which would automatically show up on your computer and iPad, and I would look up Suzie Q's contact card and drag it across to your Contacts folder to copy it, and it would automatically show up in your Contact list.
Yes, you can do the same things with Google calendars, and I'm sure on an Apple or other platform. But Outlook Exchange Server is the standard in my business world.
Pam
so this is about as off topic as a turd in a carpet store, but....
apple has ical for a calendar app. it wishes we use it as an individual and as a corporate entity.microsoft has outlook for a calendar app for consumers but a separate one for people in suits? do they mesh?google, it seems, has one calendar app but a pro version and a free version.and why would one want two exchange accounts? can you not merge them and choose which bits of information to view? or would one be for work and one play?maybe i am not meant to understand the microsoft way?no need to explain.~KM--
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On Sep 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, pdw wrote:iTunes can sync with Outlook. iPad can currently sync OTA with one Exchange Server account. It doesn't come built into Windows. To use it you must have a server somewhere running Exchange Server, with user accounts set up for it that stores all of the information centrally. Then clients such as Outlook or iPad or a web interface can "talk" to it and pull information down. It is pricey and if you had it, you'd know it.
PamOn Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Just Murray <krismurray@gmail.com> wrote:
so its not what itunes uses or hijacks on consumers windows systems? if not ,what does it use?
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On Sep 21, 2010, at 9:19 AM, pdw wrote:It's what Microsoft/Outlook uses to share calendars and other folders (contacts, tasks, notes) in a corporate type environment.
PamOn Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Just Murray <krismurray@gmail.com> wrote:
is that what windows uses as ical, its calendar counterpart, an "exchange server"?
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On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:40 PM, pdw wrote:Another thing not mentioned that is a big one for me is the ability to enter more than one Exchange server. I need to be able to check the calendars of others on my Exchange server, so I'm looking forward to that one.
