Elephant Outlook Exchange Hosting for ActiveSync SmartPhones

[Guest elephant]

Elephant Outlook Exchange Hosting for ActiveSync SmartPhones and PDAs

Use mobile ActiveSync for always-up-to-date and instant access and to your e-mail, contacts, and calendar from anywhere. Now you can always be in touch.

Access your e-mail, calendar, or contacts from hotels, airports, satelite office -- anywhere.

Get that file or e-mail you left at the office

Have all your contacts and address book synchronized and accessable at your finger tips.

Staying up-to-date with e-mail, calendar, and contacts while on the move has never been easier. Replying to urgent e-mails and clearing your inbox can save significant time, and increase the speed of communications and collaboration.

With an integrated Phone in the Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones, you can also directly phone a contact by simply tapping on the stored phone number in your contact lists.

Elephant Outlook is the smart and affordable way to outsource your company's email and collaboration using Microsoft Exchange 2003. No customer to small and no customer too big.

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[Guest McHale]

I have a 2 month old terrior that has typhoid for sale. It is brown and has seven brothers and sisters. One day I watched him run down the street and pick up a stick. It was VERY funny. He also comes if you call him. You have to know his name though. I forget what it is at the moment but if you figure it out and yell it, he will come a running...

-Mc

Are we able to use the forums now to sell things? If so I have LOTS of stuff! Multiple posts may help sell it as well!!!!!

[Guest elephant]

Our service offering is directly related to using SmartPhones. Elephant Outlook is an outsourced exchange service that makes synchronizing your SmartPhone over the Internet automatic -- keeping your important information at hand.

Lets us know if there is a better place to post.

Ingram Leedy

[email protected]

[Guest [email protected]]

I second McHale. Even though I'm interested in your type of services, it's still advertising and to my knowledge not allawed in this forum.

[Guest McHale]

I don't think there is any appropriate place in a public support forum to advertise your product. If you were coming here to offer to let us beta test it and tell us all about it, that would be different. It would allow us to play with a product that someone may have some need for. You would receive quality beta testing that would help you develop a better product.

But note, I'm not a moderator. I'm not the site owner. I'm not even a frequent poster. But I do know that cross posting the same exact post in multiple areas in the forums to advertise products isn't welcome by me.

Now, off my soapbox (sorry, I'm long-winded). You can report your product to the site owner for submission to the News items (here, MSMOBILES, MSMOBILENEWS, etc) and I'm almost positive everything you posted would have been put there. Everyone wants to be informed of new MS Smartphone software. It almost certainly will appeal to many of us here. After it's posted in the News section, it will probably get talked about in the Software area and at that time, we welcome any help you can provide or answer any questions that come up.

Hope that helped (and hope I didn't sound all preachy)...

-Mc

p.s. the Exchange Hosting for ActiveSync sounds pretty cool and welcome to the Modaco...

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Sheesh people, talk about a harsh welcome ;-)

Elephant probably should have mentioned that he spoke to me before posting this!

Exchange 2003 with Smartphones is AWESOME (I have my own Exchange server), so I think making people aware of it is definitely good...

We hope to be tying up with Elephant to do some great deals in the very near future, so watch this space ;-)

P

[Guest [email protected]]

Sorry Ingram/Elephant for the not so warm welcome, didn't know your post was approved by Paul. I was sort of hoping for his blessing since I am, like I said, interested in your type of services and I think this will be a good thread.

Can any one person register or do You require a minimum number of accounts per client? Can I as a "regular Joe" get my email provided by You through Exchange?

Do all features work worldwide? Like OTA sync, isn't that network carrier dependent? From what I've heard of Microsofts OTA sync, it relies on SMS messages from the server to trigger the Smartphone to sync, and SMS doesn't work worldwide, does it?

[Guest McHale]

at least at *SOME* point I was trying to be nice. :lol:

Sorry Paul. Sorry Mr. Elephant.

I'll go back to the corner now. :D

-Mc

[Guest elephant]

No problem - we're just so excited about the SmartPhones and want to get more involved with the community.

Can any one person register or do You require a minimum number of accounts per client? Can I as a "regular Joe" get my email provided by You through Exchange?

There is no minimum for the number accounts per client. We host all size customers.

Do all features work worldwide? Like OTA sync, isn't that network carrier dependent? From what I've heard of Microsofts OTA sync, it relies on SMS messages from the server to trigger the Smartphone to sync, and SMS doesn't work worldwide, does it?

What's exciting about Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 (which we provide licensed copies of the latest versions of Outlook as part of our service) is that it uses a new protocol and caching technique. The traffic is very light and puts a lot more intelligence into the client. So the solution works from anywhere and is very fast!

Also is a great Outlook Web Client, which has been updated to look like Outlook 2003. Use this at any IE browser, all your information is right there.

And of course, Mobile services for SmartPhone's and PDAs.

Here is how the SMS works on Exchange 2003:

The feature gets turned on in Windows Mobile 2003 and if you are connected to an Exchange server and you sync for the first time.

If you get SMS alerts when sending email to a specific email address, like [email protected] (where the first part might be your phone number) then your carrier will work. We continue to add any carriers that support email to SMS paging.

The process:

Once you've setup your SmartPhone or PDA Phone Edition with our services, here is the process:

1. new mail arrive to Elephant Outlook (Exchange 2003 Data Center)

2. Sees that you have enabled the AUTD (Always-Up-To-Date)

3. Contacts the mobile provider (basically sends a special activesync command inside an email address to your phone)

4. Your phone receives the special SMS email.

5. Your phone is instructed to ActiveSync over the Internet.

6. Everything gets synced back and forth.

You have new mail, and other items that have been updated.

For users with Windows Mobile 2002, you will need to poll the activesync or manually sync. With Windows Mobile 2003, its automatic - or Always Up To Date (AUTD).

[Guest ClintEastman]

He he, good elephant!! :wink:

Sounds like a good service.

[Guest [email protected]]

I'll look into if my carrier (or competing carriers) do SMS paging. To clarify, is SMS paging the same as SMTP gateway? (Mail-to-SMS) I do have an E-mailaddress on my carriers domain ([email protected]) but I don't know if they send alerts upon incoming mail. If they do, does that really confirm that it would work for me? I'm thinking that the activesync information in the email sent by Exchange has to be relayed by the carrier into an SMS, not just an SMS saying "You have mail".

[Guest [email protected]]

My carrier doesn't support SMS paging, can I still get AUTD mail?

[Guest winterminute]

Elephant -- I just came across your site the other looking for email hosting. I am definately interested. Are you running on speacials for a single-mailbox with no need for public folders?

As for all the new technologies available (RPC/HTTP, AUTD, Exchange ActiveSync, etc), there is some really really cool stuff.

For those that don't know,, here is some info about this stuff:

Exchange ActiveSync is like syncing with Outlook on your PC but over the internet (or GPRS and then over the internet) usually using HTTPS. Basically, you would configure your local active sync to pull from an internet source rather than your local Outlook. Very very cool stuff!

Just like elephant says you can configure ActiveSync to tell your smartphone that it has mail and that your smartphone should initiate a sync. Your smartphone receives a silent SMS message that triggers the sync.

However, if you can't receive SMS or you have to pay per incoming SMS, you can configure ActiveSync to sync on a schedule without know if there is anything to sync. AUTD is like a push method vs a scheduled sync is like a pull method. The ability to schedule sync is availabel on both 2002 and 2003, however, AUTD is only available on Windows Mobile 2003, so all us US peeps with MPx200 can only do scheduled syncs, but still very very very cool.

elephant >> Are you guys running ActiveSync on HTTP or HTTPS? For us TMobile users, we get free unlimited HTTP (but no HTTPS) so if you were running it on HTTP (which is less ideal than HTTPS but since POP/SMTP are wide-open anyway, it isn't really any different).