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23 September Client NewsSlow here the past couple weeks, primarily because I'm at the beginning of another consulting engagement that is taking my attention fulltime+ at the moment. It's a sub deal (we do these more often than you might think) and the project involves a consulting team of five plus 4 employees and more to come. We're working on a divestiture and the scope of our responsibility is business applications - my personal responsibility is systems that run on the Intel platform.
So that's keeping me a little busy, but I figured it was time to drop a quick note, and update what's been going on.
The iPhone still rocks, though I've yet to find a workaround with the sync issue - for the moment I've simply been syncing with my MacBook.
I'm also playing around with VMWare Fusion, and in fact I'm typing this in a VM on the MacBook. Works like a champ so far. Just finished installing Office 2K7 into the VM and will be checking out OneNote within a VM. Incidentally, the VM works great now that I upgraded to 2GB of RAM. With a single Gig in the system it was way too pokey - the performance flat out sucked. With two - 892MB devoted to the VM - it's working just fine. 06 September iPhone Sync IssuesFor the past couple weeks, off-and-on I've been troubleshooting a synchronization issue with a client's iPhone. It seems that some calendar events sync just fine, others don't do anything! Even worse, sometimes an evet that has been deleted in Outlook will reappear as an event on the iPhone! I've tried about everything, including copying all the user data into a PST and creating a new profile using that PST file; working online in Outlook on a new system and trying the sync; and even creating a new mailbox on the Exchange server, copying some of the old events,a nd then syncing on yet another new computer. No luck with any of them! Finally I found a post on Everything iPhone that indicated it's not an isolated problem. Finally, a couple of suggestions! Many folks seem to think it's related to an Outlook add-in featuring Live Maps, which as it happens this client has installed - so I'll be trying to remove that and see if the issue resolves. But then - horrors! - it happened on my iPhone. I'm not honestly sure how long it's been going on, but it definitely is today. I made a couple of changes to my Vista laptop, specifically removing two other Outlook add-ins - although I didn't have the Windows Live Maps add-in installed at all. I removed add-ins for Business Contact Manager (A Microsoft plugin) and the salesforce.com add-in for Outlook. I thought - correctly, as it happens - that one or the other was sapping my system performance. Everything runs snappier in Vista with those removed. Unfortunately, the syncs are snappier too, because not as much is getting synchronized! This shouldn't be a huge shock. I remember what I went through getting synchronization to work with the old Palm Intellisync software, and Pumasoft shims to make it work with Outlook. Getting sync to work right was a huge challenge then, and it really shouldn't be a huge surprise that it still presents a challenge. Having said that, a PDA that can't keep my calendar up to date isn't very useful as a PDA! For the moment, pending a patch from Apple (I'm convinced it is their synchronization software) I'm considering a switch back to the good old Macbook Pro. It syncs just fine. Now I just need to double the memory and see if Vmware Fusion works better than Parallels, so I can run Visio and Microsoft Project, which are musts for the project I'm on for the next few months. |
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