If you’re experiencing problems getting your iPhone to sync with your Microsoft Outlook data, Apple’s got a Knowledge Base article that might fix the problem.

Try opening up the Outlook application prior to sync. If you haven’t already done so, you’ll want fire up the setup wizard to get your Outlook Profile squared away. Once that’s done, go ahead and plug in your iPhone to sync with Outlook via iTunes.

Here’s the text from Apple:

“After creating the profile, then perform another sync. The contacts and/or calendar events from the iPhone should now appear in Outlook. This occurs because Microsoft Outlook does not create a file for contacts or calendar events until after it has been opened. Until the database file has been created, there’s no place for iPhone contacts and/or calendar events to sync to.”

Hope this helps some of you out there struggling with Outloook synchronization!

See, iPhone can do business too!

Thanks to Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway 3.0, which supports over-the-air synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and Apple iPhone, corporate users can now justify purchasing of the iPhone to their bosses. Furthermore, Synchronica’s solution does NOT require the enterprise to expose IMAP and SMTP in their Exchange servers or install additional connectors — instead it uses Microsoft’s secure Outlook Web Access (OWA) to retrieve e-mail from the corporate Exchange server, a service enabled by many enterprises to provide users with access to corporate e-mail from home or while traveling. And the best thing is that you will be able to use iPhone’s built-in email client, not some web-based solution!

Sounds like you’ve just got yourself a reason to run to your boss demanding an iPhone to do work better while on the go. :cool: