Syncing campus Exchange calendar with iCal

For employees with calendars in Exchange, there’s a utility you can purchase which does a fairly good job of linking the Exchange calendar with iCal. Snerdware’s GroupCal will export and iCal calendar to Exchange and import the Exchange calendar into iCal. You can select which iCal calendars are exported and how often the synchronization occurs. See the details on Snerdware’s website.

Despite my best efforts I have been unable to get Entourage to work in our environment where the Exchange mail server and free/busy servers are different. This turned out to be the only feasible alternative for me. I’m hoping that Entourage will fix its problems in a future release, although I prefer iCal to Entourage’s calendar.