What about synchronizing appointments or other items in an Exchange Server mailbox folder with a group calendar or other folder in Public Folders?
Here's a trick for appointments: If the public folder has an e-mail address, open the Properties dialog for the folder, choose Add to Contacts, you can simply invite a public folder calendar to a meeting.
Also, don't forget that for offline use, you can drag any public folder to Public Folders/Favorites and set the Favorites copy to synchronize.
Other than that, Outlook does not provide any built-in mechanism for syncing between Outlook mailboxes and Public folders, hence the list of tools on this page.
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Tools in the Spotlight
Automatically sync Office 365 Global Address Lists, shared calendars, and Public Folder contacts and calendars, and CRM contacts from Outlook to business smartphones. CiraSync is a secure, Azure-based SaaS platform that is centrally managed, requires no installation, minimal user training, and can scale to thousands of business smartphones. Try the always fee Personal Edition, or a 30-day, 100-user trial for the Enterprise Edition (no credit card/contract needed). |
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Sync ACT! Contacts, Calendar, Tasks with ALL devices that sync with Outlook or Exchange. Integrate Exchange-Stored Sent and received Emails with ACT!Compatible with Outlook, Exchange, Office 365, Google, iCloud and any other cloud service that supports Exchange. | |
An Exchange add-on, Outlook synchronization solution which synchronizes any combination of Outlook private and/or public folders of the same type (Calendars, Contacts, Tasks) and in any direction. This application works wirelessly with any PDA, Pocket PC, Smartphone or Blackberry handheld and Outlook Web Access. Add2Exchange is licensed and sold separately for Add2Exchange for Calendars, Add2Exchange for Contacts, & Add2Exchange for Tasks. Free trial available. | |
Add2Outlook (A2O) is a 2-way Outlook calendar, contact and/or task synchronizer for desktops, laptops and mobile devices. Add2Outlook is a client-side solution which offers 2-way folder replication of new calendar items, contact entries or task entries and 4-way synchronization of edits. | |
Use CB Exchange Server Sync to synchronize multiple Exchange / Outlook accounts, including emails, tasks, contacts, calendars, folders and more. All of that across multiple Exchange servers, accounts and domains, and within different Exchange / Outlook versions. One or bi-directional, fully customizable. Exchange data are synced to server, not in the client or device. Available in the cloud, on-premises or as a hybrid solution. All synchronized data can be visualized on any client interface, for instance, Thunderbird, Mail OS X, Outlook, Outlook for mobile. 30-days Free Trial available. | |
CodeTwo Exchange Sync lets you synchronize Exchange public folders and personal folders of users. Thanks to this functionality, you can synchronize content of Exchange public folders to mobile devices (iOS, Android, etc.), create common company calendars and contact lists, synchronize emails, and many more. The application supports Exchange 2013 / 2010 / 2007 and is easy to configure and use. | |
CodeTwo FolderSync Addin is an Outlook add-in that enables synchronization of folders. The synchronization of data will always take place between selected folders and the user can choose several pairs of folders that need synchronizing. Freeware. | |
Company Contacts addin gives you access to a powerful shared address book as a replacement for the Microsoft Exchange 'Global Address List'. Company Contacts makes it possible to create additional address books by just saving Outlook contact items and/or vCard files (.vcf) to a sub folder (the name of each folder is the address book name) in a specified file share. Company Contacts lets you automatically import the global address list to a sub folder of your personal Outlook contacts, making them available on iPhone or Android mobile device. | |
Easy2Sync for Outlook keeps your personal store in sync on multiple computers. Try the free version which only synchronizes the inbox and outbox, the Home-Edition to sync all email folders, or the Business-Edition which synchronizes all folder types. Improved support for Business use: Simpler user interface, improved Exchange synchronization. Supports Outlook 2010 (32 and 64 bit) and portable USB installations for the sync of e-mails, contacts and calendars. Version 4. | |
Basic functionality is synchronizing user calendars to public calendars and back. New features include: Admin users (managers) can push items to users directly from the group calendar overview and users can not change or remove those from their personal calendar. Team members can push team items to the personal calendar of everyone in their team so these will also display on mobile calendar devices. and more. Users can create new items for other users from the mobile device calendar. | |
messageconcept PeopleSync acts as a directory connector for mobile devices. The software synchronizes the company's address lists automatically with your smartphones, tablets and applications. PeopleSync works with enterprise sources, such as Office 365, Exchange Server, SharePoint, databases and various CRM systems. On client side all LDAP and CardDAV clients are supported. Therefore the address books can be accessed and synchronized on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and even office phones. | |
Copies items between Outlook folders. Can be used to synchronize folders between PST files on two different machines, copy calendar entries to a public folder, or back up data to another PST file. (Version 1.6) | |
SimpleSYN provides synchronization of Outlook data on several computers automatically and in real-time. The data synchronization is carried out via network or, in the business version, optionally over the Internet. All e-mails, notes, tasks, appointments, contacts are updated and immediately available on all computers. SimpleSYN is flexible in its setup with the direction and mode of the synchronization (new, changed and deleted items) set individually for each Outlook folder. SimpleSYN Business version can run as a Windows service. Compatible with Windows 10 and Outlook 2016, 2013 (32-/64-Bit) and Outlook 2007. Uses the .NET Framework 4.5. Free trial available. |