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> -----Original Message----- > From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST > > > I'm waiting for the iPaq with 6GB drive so I can get rid of my laptop. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:09 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST > > > 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. > > 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] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
