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all because ur stupid employer decided to forbid exchange synching, this isn't a standard process.
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Perhaps the only saving grace would be if someone would develop a (desktop) Outlook Exchange ActiveSync addin to access the Exchange server (sort of like DAVMail); then again if I wait long enough hopefully someone in the Windows Phone community will be able to implement a USB sync solution now that with the Mango update, user data is no longer completely sandboxed like it was before.
The ideal solution, of course, would be for native Microsoft support with the Zune desktop client being able to sync with Outlook (both x86 and x64), and provide the user the option for which calender and contact source on the phone to sync with a users choice of calenders and contact lists withing Outlook. |
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Well I solved my problem; well not really in the way I intended to. After almost two weeks of frustrations (and several almost missed appointments), I finally came to the conclusion that Windows Phone 7 is simply not mature enough yet compared to Windows Mobile 6.5. I'll happily take proper contact and calender syncing, file storage, bluetoooth file transfer, and wi-fi tethering, over a better camera, FM radio, capacitive touch screen, podcast support, more apps, etc. I do not need games, local scout, and pointless apps if the phone does not work right in the first place.
It seems that with the technical changes that were made in the Mango update, and enough time for the ROM chefs to dig through the code, someone will make the platform work like it was supposed to. For now I'm packing my bags for Windows Mobile 6.5; Windows Phone 7 I hope to see you again in the future. For what it is worth; one (easy?) way Microsoft could resolve this issue would be to modify the operation of the Outlook Hotmail Connector (OHC). If Hotmail would support contact photos (not just Live Messenger profile pics), and the OHC tool could be setup to automatically synchronize changes from local Outlook folders (e.g. contacts and calender) to Hotmail, then this would be a partial win, and might be able to bring me back to Windows Phone 7. It would be close to a win if Windows Phone 7 could then sync all appointments and contacts together in a single calender, and contact list back to their respective data sources without regard to which source it came from (instead of maintaining separate isolated calenders and contact lists that can only be toggled to show on a single calender or contact list). A full win would be this plus USB support so I do not have to use Hotmail at all. |
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Incidentally, Outlook via RPC has absolutely NOTHING to do at all with ActiveSync. They're totally different connectivity options. ActiveSync is the ONLY methodology for connecting your smartphone devices of any kind, and OvRPC is exclusive to Outlook on a Windows platform.
Regardless of that difference, if your employer is actively disabling those options (or too incompetent to configure them), I agree with Eric... it's the fault of your employer not the platform. Also in agreement with Eric... every smartphone platform aggregates the calendars and contacts together. Android and iPhone both operate in similar ways. |
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