GroupCal 3.01: Sync iCal with MS Exchange
Monday, March 20th, 2006
GroupCal offers full two-way synchronization of iCal events and to dos with Ms Exchange Server 2000 or 2003 and will appeal especially to the many Mac users trapped in a Windows world.
It also allows you to make full use of other MS Exchange features like booking people or resources for meetings, responding to meeting requests and viewing Free/Busy time.
Calendar synchronization is controlled from the app’s main window:
GroupCal 3 brought compatibility with 10.4.
GroupCal 3.01, released on Saturday, fixes a significant problem in 3.0 in which Exchange “Tasks” (i.e. iCal “To Dos”) were not being synchronized from Exchange into iCal. It also adds hotkeys to the Synchronize menu entries.
The latest version will run on Intel Macs under Rosetta but is not yet universal.
Designed for the business market, it comes complete with a corporate price tag. Licences range from USD 54.95 for a single user to USD 1.029.95 for 25 users. A free but crippled demo is available from the developer’s web site 
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(I have no access to an Exchange server to test this. I even had to pinch the developer’s own screenshot).
Tags: booking resources, events, iCal, meeting requests, MS Exchange server, Rosetta, synchronization, todos