Microsoft Exchange Calendar

[Guest Simon Baker]

I have sync'd up my contacts and emails to microsoft exchange, does anyone know how to sync up my calendar please. ive already tried one app from the market but can't remember the name and it would load the app.

any help would be appreciated as I use my calendat a lot.

Thanks

Simon

[Guest Simon Baker]

I have sync'd up my contacts and emails to microsoft exchange, does anyone know how to sync up my calendar please. ive already tried one app from the market but can't remember the name and it would load the app.

any help would be appreciated as I use my calendat a lot.

Thanks

Simon

***Installed Road Sync and all is now well.

[Guest dwl99]

see also http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin...py?answer=89955

[Guest The Soup Thief]

Just found an old dead thread asking about something I wanna know (though without the info I'm after)

My organisation uses a Microsoft exchange server, enabling people with windows mobile and blackberries to plug in to their Outlook calendars and synch appointments with their mobiles (note - all over USB - no wifi allowed)

I mentioned Android to an ICT guy here and there was little optimism

Previously I'd understood that it was gonna be a matter of using Roadsync or somesuch to enable synching with Exchange, but I'm up and running with Flibblesan's Froyo now (working very nicely) and I understand that this should make synching a good deal simpler

So can anyone tell me, or direct me to some clues, how simple a job it's gonna be to get my phone synched with their server - am I asking them to do anything different from that they'd expect to do with a Blackberry?

Are there any clues I can give to make their job easier?

[Guest JolyonS]

For a while now I've used Google Calendar sync to do a two-way sync of my work calendar with my gmail account and do the same at home so I have full sync across gmail, Exchange and a local install of Outlook.

When I added the Android phone into this I just pulled the data direct from the gmail calendar and the whole lot is now in sync.

Dunno if that's any use to you but it works for me.

[Guest The Soup Thief]

For a while now I've used Google Calendar sync to do a two-way sync of my work calendar with my gmail account and do the same at home so I have full sync across gmail, Exchange and a local install of Outlook.

When I added the Android phone into this I just pulled the data direct from the gmail calendar and the whole lot is now in sync.

Dunno if that's any use to you but it works for me.

Thanks for that - I'd thought along those lines, but I'm absolutely confident that sharing client information (even names) with The Google (even a Gmail account solely for work purposes) will not be received at all well

Does anyone know of a way of cutting out that step to enable a direct Phone - work Desktop sync?

Added difficulty is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to install software on the desktop at work

[Guest Anb8]

Thanks for that - I'd thought along those lines, but I'm absolutely confident that sharing client information (even names) with The Google (even a Gmail account solely for work purposes) will not be received at all well

Does anyone know of a way of cutting out that step to enable a direct Phone - work Desktop sync?

Added difficulty is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to install software on the desktop at work

I don't think you are giving anything to Google except for access to your Exchange Calendar. The google sync app just loads the data from your local Outlook, no credentials needed and syncs it with the Google account you provide. Imho safer than providing your full Exchange account login data to a 3rd party application such as RoadSync or TouchDown.

[Guest Simon Baker]

Thanks for that - I'd thought along those lines, but I'm absolutely confident that sharing client information (even names) with The Google (even a Gmail account solely for work purposes) will not be received at all well

Does anyone know of a way of cutting out that step to enable a direct Phone - work Desktop sync?

Added difficulty is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to install software on the desktop at work

How do they sync the windows phones other than usb? They must update other than that otherwise whats the point of having mobile email?

Blackberry will more than likely use a BES server to push the emails and the windows phones should connect up through a published internet site. You should be able to use roadsync and connect the same way the windows phones do.

Good luck.

[Guest goatee]

Thanks for that - I'd thought along those lines, but I'm absolutely confident that sharing client information (even names) with The Google (even a Gmail account solely for work purposes) will not be received at all well

Does anyone know of a way of cutting out that step to enable a direct Phone - work Desktop sync?

Added difficulty is the likelihood that I won't be allowed to install software on the desktop at work

Do they have the web interface enabled? If so, you can point your phone at that address, and it will sync (i.e. when you set up the exchange account, when it asks for the server address, put in the web interface URL). That's what I do, and it works a treat.

[Guest The Soup Thief]

How do they sync the windows phones other than usb? They must update other than that otherwise whats the point of having mobile email?

Blackberry will more than likely use a BES server to push the emails and the windows phones should connect up through a published internet site. You should be able to use roadsync and connect the same way the windows phones do.

Good luck.

Thanks all for the pointers - will go back to IT with renewed conviction!

as you can tell I know zip about our network so I'm kind of at their mercy - when they initially fobbed me off I didn't have anything to come back with

Knowledge is power B)

[Guest dragon2611]

Android from about Version 2.0 i think it was supports exchange activesync, (Which is the same technology as windows mobile based devices use)

However it's only 2.2 that understands security policies I believe.

The inbuilt app will sync email/contacts/calender, but is a bit funny about the configuration of the exchange server it worked with my hosted exchange account but wouldn't work for someone I knew with their exchange server.

Personally though I prefer Roadsync and ended up buying it for my SF after having used the version bundled on the Pulse-mini.

I like the fact roadsync will update the unread messages counter in the notification bar with the current number of unread messages, which means if you read all your messages on your pc, the next time roadsync contacts the server it will clear the notification of unread messages on the phone :-)

Edited November 18, 2010 by dragon2611