How to connect Mobile Information Server with SPV !?

[Guest Triall)]

Hi dudes! ;)

Great forum You've got here... may be the most comprehensive information in the web for the SPV.

So, if already is discussed such a matter, please link it to me.

If not, please advise me how to deal with next situation:

I've got SPV. In our company there is MS Mobile Information Server. So I would like to connect the SPV through the MIServer to the MS Exchange server, where is my e-mail. The sense is when I'm out of the office and I have good internet connection to perform VPN to the mail server and to synchronize my e-mail with the SPV Inbox, Calendar and etc Folders.

Till that moment the only synchronization that certainly works :? is between the SPV and my Desktop Outlook through USB cable.

10x in advance to all who will share their opinion by this matter...

[Guest daveng]

Hello,

We have the same configuration but I didn't find the time to try ActiveSync from the network.

A few thoughts though :

- you need an SSL certificate on the MIS box, since ActiveSync only works through SSL. It has to be an official certificate. There is a patch for PocketPCs so they don't require an official certificate, but I don't think there is a similar patch for the SPV.

- I could not make the VPN work from the SPV... I guess the best way to go (at least, to make ActiveSync in the first place), is to allow ActiveSync traffic through your firewall (this is what I will try when I find some time). This way you don't need the VPN anymore, and the traffic is secured through SSL.

If someone manage to make this work, I'm interrested.

If I can make it work, I'll let you know how I managed it (but I will need an SSL certificate before, which means spending $150 at least, just to see if it works)...

[Guest Triall)]

Here is what I've come to(may be nothing)...

May my knowledge is not enough to resolve such a task...

I fight a lot with the problem, but for my regret unsuccessfully....

I go through a lot of articles... I tried to connect the SPV in same way, as PocketPC:

http://www.mobile-and-wireless.com/Article...ArticleID=24875

Here are the points, where I suppose I'm fallin:

1. I can not establish connection between the SPV and the MIServer

2. I'm not sure that the MIServer comunicates correctly with the Exchange

I will try to explain the company topology:

SPV -> ISA (firewall) -> MIServer -> Exchange

May be I should try to avoid the ISA server and to connect directly to the MIServer...

When I tried to connect the SPV to the MIServer I set profile of the phone. When I try to connect with the SPV through the VPN connection I receive errors all the time.

Then I tried to set carrier between the MIServer and Exchange I set carrier to GSM network. So here comes the interesting part :-( I do not know how to test the carrier settings...

If someone can help with advise I will highly appreciate it....

[Guest Soyale]

One thing to remember is that you cannot make a VPN connection over Orange GPRS. Either your MMIS box should be accessible from the outside world or use a dialup connection and create a VPN.

HTH

jp

[Guest pupton]

Not really a permanent measure but you could connect to your exchange server using Imap4. This will give you access to your email.

Nowhere as good as a full sync up but its better than nothing...

[Guest [email protected]]

hi,

could try using Orange CSD (HSCSD) instead of GPRS. This supports VPN access and will let you connect at about 28 kbps - or so I'm told by Orange. Still need the certificate though :)

cheers