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Syncing global contacts with Windows Mobile

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by matthew.roberts

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Hi there
We have Windows Mobile devices, and Exchange 2003. We are using Active Sync and all is well syncing wirelessly. However we need a global contacts list which everyone can access and which will sync wirelessly. Can anyone help me with a solution to this? ActiveSync will only sync the 4 main folders from the Exchange Mailbox (Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks). I tried a product called PocketMirror which allows for syncing of Public Folders but this will only sync when docked with the PC.
Any suggestions or lateral thinking appreciated
Thanks
Matt

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by bincarnato

I have looked into a similar thing for Blackberry's and have found that it wasn't possible to synch wirelessly anything in the public folders. That being said, this may help get you closer to your desired results. I don't know Windows Mobile at all but you might take a look at Pocket Contact Synchronizer from MS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2D31C7F0-B871-49CE-9F96-712A1695E372&displaylang=en

If you are running Outlook 2003, you may have issues installing. If you do, take a look at this page. It gives a workaround.

http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj/OPCSIssues.html

We ended up just accepting that we would have to dock our Blackberries to synch public folders to prevent accidental overwrites of current/accurate information with outdated/inaccurate info.

by skogli4

Hi!
I'm not sure if that is possible or if i have understood you correctly but if it is possible to sync ? global contacts list, you would probably have a problem with the size of the global list. However users have the abilty on a windows mobile 6 to search after a contact from the global list and then save the contact in Mobile Outlook. This way they are only keeping the contacts they need and dont need alot of storage place. A user can also search for a contact in the global list in the desktopp version of Outlook and save the contact in the local list. The next time they sync there telephone, the contact will be added in the mobile Outlook. Hope i understood you and this was of help!

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