Well I thought this had died with everyone having made their points, but apparently not. I thought that last response to my post was so off the point that it only underscored what I had said.
I think this is where systems architects and operations folks have their most difficult problems in communicating with each other. It is ok for an operations view to be pressed that suggests that given the current technology using a specific approach is a best practice. However, that does not translate into where it is best to take the product. MAPI is a painful legacy at this point. I don't think anyone is suggesting that it should be ported to any other platform, including the Pocket PC and Windows CE families. We don't want it, and neither does Microsoft. That creates an interesting situation. Should the services in MAPI that go beyond what is currently in IMAP4 and OWA be extended to other platforms or not, and if so, how? This is where I got bent. There was a rabid non-thinking defense of the status quo: a sort of I'm not giving up my MAPI until you pull my cold dead fingers from my keyboard" approach. That attitude is not defensible. About the only technology arguments that I respect less than those that start "Linux is best . . ." or "Apple is best . . ." are the ones that start "Microsoft is best . . ." Exchange is a superior product because it is mostly very pragmatic in its design. When this stops to be true, it's roadkill, and so are the sys admins that make their living off of it. I don't think that is in the best interests of anyone on this list. Evolving trends in security systems suggest that the one high level protocol that looks like it has the best shot at transiting the greatest number of transport links, and being useful for the widest possible number of non-streaming media applications is http. Similarly, the well equipped browser has displaced all other offerings and attempts to build platform neutral systems that still work well with market-centric systems (i.e. Wintel). This can only lead to one conclusion. MAPI clients are not strategic. They have at best a limited future. The premier client protocol for Exchange, if it is to survive, has to be http. Get over it. Adapt and thrive. -----Original Message----- From: East, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 6:25 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST Jumping Jiminey. I guess I am. It's just that Dupler fellow. I get all excited. -- be - MOS "This is Vergon 6." -Professor "Bah." -Amy "It's a sunny little doomed planet, inhabited by a number of frisky little doomed animals." -Professor > -----Original Message----- > From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:58 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST > > > A little behind on your reading Bill? > > Serdar Soysal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: East, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:43 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: synchronizing OWA with OST or PST > > > > -----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'm puzzled by this approach, Craig. > > Let's say you're at an airport kiosk. You're going to > download the synch > file, then what? Copy it to a floppy? What if it's more that > 1.44MB? What if > the kiosk doesn't have a floppy drive? If you're using a PDA, > how do you > transfer the file to there? > > OTOH, let's say you're hooked into a WLAN in the Executive > Lounge from your > own laptop or PDA. You can then fire up your VPN software, > connect into your > LAN and synch using the copy of Outlook on your PC. If you don't use > Outlook, as many others have pointed out, you can use an IMAP client. > > Synchronization to an OST presumes that you have Outlook > installed, so why > re-create the wheel? OWA was built to be run from any browser > anywhere (I > can even convince Opera to load it if I work at it), but like > most Web-based > services, presumes a connection for the duration of the session. > > > > 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? > > > > Implementation of this isn't trivial, and there already exist multiple > better ways to do what you want. So why would Microsoft spend money > developing another one? > > > Or maybe it is that you've bought into the view that small > > machines should > > only be used as companions to "real" machines. > > Well, no. If you have an IMAP/MAPI client and a Web browser > on your handheld > you're in good shape. But your Web browser sucks as a > mailtool, so why not > use the IMAP/MAPI client? > > > 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. > > > > I resent that implication. 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