I'm waiting to be able to synchronize my 32-terabyte PST to my PDA. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dillon, Jeff Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Well, they're now in "bug-fix mode" as you've read, so there's a general moratorium on desired feature updates as well as the more numerous "you want this--trust us" stuff. Probably worth the wait.... -----Original Message----- From: Dupler, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:33 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Yes, it works well. That was never the point. But, just like a MAPI session, you should be able to do a synch while in browse mode on OWA. I don't get it. Why are you guys arguing in favor of keeping a small and extremely useful feature out of the product? Is it a "we're tough, we can take it" sort of thing, or what? Or maybe it is that you've bought into the view that small machines should only be used as companions to "real" machines. Sheesh, I thought that attitude died back in the 80's when the mainframe crowd tried to convince everyone that OV, HP Desk and All-In-1 were the "real" workgroup messaging systems, and that LAN mail should be relegated to simple departmental messaging only tasks. It's amazing. The PC guys have grown up to become the dinosaurs that they displaced. -----Original Message----- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:56 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Actually, although it is quite small and requires you to move around the screen a lot, I just did what Serdar suggested. Threw an Ethernet card in my iPaq and went straight to the OWA...logged in and it worked like a charm! -----Original Message----- From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST What I'm trying to say is that currently the technology is available to "access my data when I am not at my desk". As long as you have a wireless modem in your PDA, you can A. Browse to OWA. B. Connect directly to Exchange via POP3. So, from the PDAs you can access your data. If they already have IMAP, then you can pick and choose what you want to download to your PDA when you're on the road. Then when you're back on the network you can simply synch your PDA again. If you have your OWA available on the Internet, then you can "access your data" even from a kiosk in an airport. All I'm saying is there is no need to force a web front end to synchronize with an offline copy of your mailbox when you can directly connect to the back-end database. S. PS: These are my personal views. If you want the official position of Kmart on the subject, you'll need to contact our Corporate Communications, I am not authorized to talk about that. What they think at Wal-mart or Target or any other company doesn't have any relevance to the discussion here. Countering the argument by saying "you're wrong because your company is in bad shape" is quite childish. -----Original Message----- From: Dupler, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST 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. 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