Right now, Funambol Outlook Plug-In seems unable to call Outlook to transfer data. The exact message is "Unable to instantiate Microsoft Outlook. Please check if Outlook is installed and correctly configured".
The debug log indicates something like:
22:32:07 GMT -5:00 [INFO] - Outlook Plugin opened
22:32:10 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Current Timezone = America/New_York
22:32:10 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Reading configuration settings from the management tree
22:32:10 GMT -5:00 [ERROR] - Error initializing Windows task scheduler. Error occurred creating an instance for COM library.
22:32:11 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Initialize COM library
22:32:11 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Create Outlook.Application instance...
22:32:12 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Logon to Outlook MAPI: default profile, show-dialog = true, new-session = false
22:32:13 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Creating Redemption.MAPIUtils instance...
22:32:13 GMT -5:00 [ERROR] - COM Pointer Error. Code = 8000ffff: Unknown error 0x8000FFFF
22:32:13 GMT -5:00 [ERROR] - Outlook Fatal Exception! - Unable to instantiate Microsoft Outlook.
Please check if Outlook is installed and correctly configured.
22:33:26 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Current Timezone = America/New_York
22:33:26 GMT -5:00 [DEBUG] - Reading configuration settings from the management tree
So far, I've tried to install Internet Explorer (to provide MSMAPI32.dll) and DCOM98 (even if it is not logical in a WinXP environment). The message seems to change a little, but the COM Pointer Error remains. For the moment, I've been unable to go further.