How To: Use MobileMe and Exchange on the iPhone at the Same Time
Apple’s MobileMe News blog is back after a bit of a hiatus with some helpful info on how, exactly, MobileMe and and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync work and play together (or vice versa):
You can enter new information for each service separately as you move around, and that information is stored and synced separately. But when you check your contact or calendar information you can view the information from both jointly or separately as you choose. It’s an approach that preserves the data integrity of each service while delivering the convenience of mobile access to both of them.
I use both MobileMe (for personal) and Exchange (for work) on my iPhone, and the above holds true for my experience so far. In fact, it lets me compartmentalize things nicely.
Anyone else two-timing on the push? How’s it working for you?
October 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
All I want is multiple calendars using plain old Outlook! Or better yet, categories.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I’ve been doing this since day 1 of my 3G phone. My boyfriend has mobileme and i have exchange. I set both of our phones up for both to use calendars and it works great when we are scheduling things together. I can look at just mine or overlap his onto mine.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I gotta just get my Exchange server running again……………
October 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Yep, I keep my work calendar on Exchange, and a couple of personal calendars on iPhone/iCal/MobileMe, and happily use them all on the iPhone. I also publish the home calendars via WebDAV, and subscribe to them on Exchange, and publish the exchange calendar and subscribe on iCal. So I can at least see all my calendars everywhere, and write to all of them from their native apps and iPhone. Totally cool.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
How do you add more than one calendar with the colors and all
October 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
So given some of the recent posts on this and other sites about using Nuevasync as your exchange server, can I add an exchange calender from google calendar via Nuevasync without deleting all my mobileme calendar entries? Anyone have a way to do that?
October 9th, 2008 at 2:26 am
This was so simple and so life saving! Thanx for that post.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Also using MobileMe and Exchange… Works great!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Yep, me too. Both MM and EXCH are working great together. You can even (if you use a Mac and MM) sync items with iCal/Entourage/Address book. Very well done, and it’s making it more attractive to real business users.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
have just enabled exchange, and have a mobileme account with syncing to my iPhone, yet I only see my exchange data when I launch my iPhone calendar.
I guess it doesn’t “just work”