You should be able to synch what you can see, if synching makes sense. But, the problem goes deeper than that. Both OWA and PDA's are about the exact same general problem set. That is, "how do I get access to my data when I am not at my desk?" To suggest that OWA should not provide good service to PDA clients is to condemn the product as having no future. I don't think that any of us want that.
What do you think the view would be over at Wal-Mart of Target? -----Original Message----- From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 10:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Well, I have to disagree. OWA is designed to be web-based mail that can be accessed from anywhere. OSTs/PSTs and such are chained to a specific desktop which defeats the purpose of using OWA. Plus, if you had OWA synching with stuff, you wouldn't be getting around the OST synchronization problems. You'll just be tranporting your problems to a different platform. If you can set up the pocket PC to be an IMAP client, you would be able to achieve what you described. I don't have a pocket PC so I can't test if this can be done or not [1]. S. [1] Help a poor admin out. Donate to "iPaq for Serdar" fund today! -----Original Message----- From: Dupler, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:35 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST No. This is a significant and long standing deficiency in OWA, and probably an entrepreneurial opportunity similar to the one that ASL (now a part of Extended Systems) worked on. One could do it two ways - stupidly or neatly. The stupid way would be to pull the data from the OWA U/I. The neat way would be to build an extension to the OWA server that made the synch data available to a browser plug-in, which in turn would update any of several local stores. A good implementation would support the following stores at a minimum: .OST Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002 Palm/Handspring I doubt that it is worth doing a .PST synchronizer. If you stop and think about it, it is really lame that a PDA can't call Exchange, look at the store contents in a browser, and then synch anything that is worth the bandwidth cost (time and money). This is especially true if you consider something like a "Stinger" phone. If someone out there decides to build this, call me. -----Original Message----- From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Anyone know of a utility that you can install on the OWA server or client that will download emails from the Exchange server and place them in your OST or PST? And then upload changes to the Exchange Server? I'm looking for a way to bypass the synchronization required for people that work offline. If you could point me to a website that would be great.. I've been searching all morning and came up with a few calendar sync programs.. but nothing that does actual emails. Thanks in advance. Wilson Varghese NT Systems Manager KMV, LLC Office: (415)229-0726 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
