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Groupcal

Groupcal - 3.10

manage Exchange calendars in iCal

All Time: (2.6)
Version 3.10: (2.5)
Selected Version: 3.10
Release Date: 2006-03-31
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 3.10): 220
Downloads (all versions): 1,468
Price: $54.95

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Product Description:

Allows you to access and manage your Microsoft Exchange calendar seamlessly from Apple iCal. Synchronize your events and tasks, book people or resources for meetings, respond to meeting requests, view Free/Busy time and much, much more. All with no need to install additional software on your Exchange server.

What's new in this version:

Groupcal 3.10 (2006-03-30-1) released on 2006-03-30

There are significant changes in version 3.10 that should help in numerous situations:

  • fixed a problem where deleting a calendar in Groupcal was not deleting that calendar in iCal

  • fixed a problem where Groupcal reported an iCal calendar that did not exist in iCal and sometimes that non-existent calendar entry could not be deleted from Groupcal

  • fixed a problem that would erroneously cause conflicts to be reported when sync'ing

  • fixed a problem where the use of certain "unusual" time zones (e.g., America/Vancouver for Vancouver, BC, Canada ... as opposed to US/Pacific for Seattle, WA, USA) would prevent entries created in iCal from being sync'd to Exchange (this likely also caused various other time-zone related problems)

  • significantly revamped the handling of all-day events

  • fixed problems where Groupcal's registration with OS X's sync services was, itself, getting out of sync and causing multiple issues

  • updated the Groupcal Uninstaller to optionally allow Groupcal to be "un-registered" with OS X's sync services ... this solves many problems where calendars are not recognized and it still might be necessary for some setups to be completely uninstalled and re-started

  • fixed a problem where adding a calendar in Groupcal would fail to update Groupcal's "Synchronize" menu and cause the short-cut keys to fail until the menu was selected/reloaded

  • fixed a problem where Groupcal was converting all dates to UTC/GMT and causing information loss in certain scenarios (this was also affecting calendar publishing)

  • added an advisory dialog to help people understand that Groupcal needs to be allowed to sync with iCal whenever OS X's sync services presents such a request

  • fixed some problems where Groupcal would show duplicate calendars for some (or all) calendars in iCal

  • updated the "Read Before You Install" document

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or newer
  • iCal 1.5.1 or newer

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Feedback Summary:

Version 3.10:
Overall Rating: (2.5) Features: (4.0) Support: (1.5)
Ease of Use: (3.0) Quality / Stability: (1.0) Price: (3.0)
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Groupcal ReviewAnyone knows of an alternative ? - Version: 3.94, 5/22/2008 08:05AM PST

osos10
After a few months of usage - when there are more than just a few occurrences to sync - it takes forever (easily 20 minutes or more). But of course that if I'll disconnect the laptop from the net, the entire sync will be destroyed .... So if anyone knows of an alternative (that supports 10.5 at times when Apple thinks of 10.6 already), PLEASE let me know.
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Groupcal CommentaryPathetic Support - Version: 3.94, 3/14/2008 11:24AM PST

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sevenup
No dates on KB articles (convenient for them)
Stated Q1-08 Leopard support and no word yet as of 3/14/08
Stated Exchange 2007 support possible Q4-07 and no word yet
As bad as we need Exchange support this company looks to be a bad idea to deal with.
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Groupcal ReviewAll over again .... - Version: 3.94, 2/14/2008 12:00AM PST

osos10
As Groupcal screwed my settings for the fourth time in the last 4 months (including duplicating iCal calendars), and again I had to use the annoying menus to set up the synchronization protocol (I have snapshots of the settings since there is no way to backup these), now I have time to write down this review (I hope that this time Groupcal will not duplicate events on the server, as my secretary is already annoyed with me using a Mac). I read Groupcal whining about Apple’s 10.5 (not too convincing), but this might give them opportunity to fix basic bugs, one such is to postpone logout or restart when Gropucal is synching. I don’t really blame Groupcal, its the company’s poor choice of MS exchange server that makes our life difficult (Windows user too). My recommendation below is "don't use the product if you don't have too", but there's no competition ...
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