Syncing Windows Mobile with Outlook on a Mac

Posted on 10 April 2007, at 12:16 pm, by Mitchell Oke

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My Treo is my calendar, my address book, my notes, my task list. I have no interest in having my PIM data on my laptop, I just don’t like to access it that way. Therefore with all the changes being made on my Treo, I don’t sync with any regularity. Since switching to Mac, irregular syncing has dropped to no syncing at all. In its place I have been using SPB Backup to backup my PIM data, which works fine, but I still wouldn’t mind having a copy of my PIM data on the laptop should something go wrong and I need it on the laptop, or to transfer it to a new device.

I could always sync it to my desktop, but all of my files are on my laptop so I didn’t really want to do that. Besides, that was just too easy. The latest version of Parallels has better support for Windows Mobile devices, so I figured it was time to give Outlook + Activesync + Mac + Parallels + Treo a try. And it wasn’t much of a try, it just worked! Installed the latest version of Activesync in my Windows install, hooked up the Treo, and selected Palm Treo from the USB list in Parallels. A few seconds later and I was setting up a partnership. Within minutes everything on my Treo was safely inside an Outlook PST file.

Too damn easy!!

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2 Comments For This Post

Tyler Puckett Says:
April 10th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
If you want to stay on the Mac side to sync, try PocketMac’s PocketMac. They have a lite version that does pretty much everything you’d ever need to do for $15, with the pro version being $40 I think. Mark/Space’s Missing Sync works well too. Both products interface with iSync, so it works very nicely. It stinks there’s not a free way to do it that I’m aware of, but these companies to a great job.
Mitchell Oke Says:
April 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Yeah I know, and I have tried the trials, but I just sync so infrequently that I don’t care if it is in my Windows VM. Its so easy just to fire it up, sync, then put it back to sleep.

But those two programs are a good way to go if you want to manage your PIM on the computer.