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Lotus Notes syncing with WM5

Hello:
I am looking for any opinions/experience with software to sync Lotus Notes with a JASJAR.
Any experience with software such as Easy Sync, Intellisync or others and their compatibility with WM5?
Thanks in advance.
Fernando

Try Cadenza mNotes from CommonTime (www.commontime.com).
I have been using it successfully with my XDAIIi. I don't have a Universal so cannot confirm that it will work but according to parts of their web site, the latest version supports WM5.

mNotes is a superstable notes sync-app, but so far doesn't work with WM5. It even wrecks the Database if you try. ... :-(

Thanks for the feedback jofeuerstein - that's a real shame. At least it makes my mind up not to get a Universal yet, because mNotes is a critical application for me.
Which version of mNotes did you try by the way? I found this article on the web which indicates version 4 should work with WM5: http://lotusadvisor.com/doc/16995
However the user guide for V4 at http://www.commontime.com/Downloads/Docs/mNotes PPC User Guide.pdf mentions nothing about supporting WM5.

Just found this other thread which mentions a beta for mNotes that supports WM5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=28913

What a disaster. The Article in "Lotus Advizor" is completeley wrong. I tried to get mNotes to work with the Universal ... no chance. I put in a support request to Commontime. No answer yet. Keep you posted.

Commontime + WM5
At the moment, Commontime mNotes doesn't work with WM5, but it will shortly.
About 2 weeks, I've been told (from a very reliable source)
The reason it won't work is because of the POOM changes in WM5. Commontime have had to re-write their client engine because of it apparently.

That's crazy.
Here's a second article that says mNotes 4.0 supports WM5.
http://www.mobile2day.de/news/news_details.html?nd_ref=4586
I can wait two weeks, no problem.
What makes me nuts is that I waste hours to get this thing to work because of false reports.
Pretty imperfect, this mobile computing business ....

Beta release this week
I spoke to a guy at commontime last week and they are to mail me a beta this wednesday 5 oct. It will be a further couple of weeks for the final release version.
hope that helps (and clearly I will come back to this group if anything materialises on wed - the guy sounded reliable and knowledgable so you never know)
J

I send in a request for clarification and possibly a beta version on Saturday. Here's the response from them today:
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Hi .... ,
Thanks for the email. The current mNotes version does not support the
new Windows Mobile 2005 devices, but a compatible mNotes release is
scheduled to be out within the month of October. I have added you to the
list of customers to be notified once this release becomes available.
We are hopping to have the provisional release version in QA testing by the
end of this week, and progress quickly from there on.
Regards,
Alex Wymer
CommonTime technical support
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Look's like we're out of luck for now, but will get some help soon. I'm curious who will be faster: Commontime or Extended Systems ;-)

Mail from Today:
Dear Customer
Thank you for showing interest in mNotes for the new PPC devices running on
the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.
Unfortunately we have had to slightly delay the beta release due mainly to
the instability of the device we are testing on at the moment (JasJar). We
have come across some device issues which affect the mNotes performance and
thus want to wait until we get a device we can have more reliable test
results on. Our original target of releasing the beta within this month is
still valid, and we are doing our very best to release it as soon as
possible.
We are in the process of acquiring other WM 5.0 devices and we will keep
you posted on the progress - again, thank you for your patience and
cooperation.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
Rita Rosenback
CommonTime Support

Hi,
Any news on the patch/update for mNotes? I read there seems to be a beta version. Does anyone know where I can get it?
My jasjar is useless without syncing with Lotus Notes....

Hi guys:
I found a work around to this that is satisfactory. There is a MS Outlook plug-in that allows you to receive/send your Lotus Notes email directly into/from Outlook. Then you can sync your email as you always do with Outlook.
You can download the free plug-in from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...59-5f17-4e52-8980-c4f0dfa92d65&DisplayLang=en
Follow the instructions and it works beautifully.
I hope this helps,
Fernando

I have tried the Outlook-Connector with a Notes-Mail/Contacts file of about 1 GB. The connector has no way to limit the amount of data copied into Outlook, so it copied 5000 calendar entries, todos and a all e-Mail data. Then about three thousand reminders popped up on my desktop (and later on my mobile). After closing them all, they popped up again, and again. Many serial appointments vanished too. Couldn't get it to stop. Decided to uninstall afterwards. Lost many hours ... not funny

orinoco said:
Hi guys:
I found a work around to this that is satisfactory. There is a MS Outlook plug-in that allows you to receive/send your Lotus Notes email directly into/from Outlook. Then you can sync your email as you always do with Outlook.
You can download the free plug-in from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...59-5f17-4e52-8980-c4f0dfa92d65&DisplayLang=en
Follow the instructions and it works beautifully.
I hope this helps,
Fernando
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I have been using this method since the WM5.0 for BA was released. I would recommend opening outlook every once in a while to make sure that everything connects and is synced between Lotus-Outlook-AS-PDA..... man my company needs to hurry up and get the new version of Extended Systems OneBridge

Any News??
Any News for mNotes and WM 5?
jofeuerstein said:
Mail from Today:
Dear Customer
Thank you for showing interest in mNotes for the new PPC devices running on
the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.
Unfortunately we have had to slightly delay the beta release due mainly to
the instability of the device we are testing on at the moment (JasJar). We
have come across some device issues which affect the mNotes performance and
thus want to wait until we get a device we can have more reliable test
results on. Our original target of releasing the beta within this month is
still valid, and we are doing our very best to release it as soon as
possible.
We are in the process of acquiring other WM 5.0 devices and we will keep
you posted on the progress - again, thank you for your patience and
cooperation.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
Rita Rosenback
CommonTime Support
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No, nothing, but extended systems is coming out with their sync sw on monday, they say on their webste.

Commontime says Wednesday 2 November
I just spoke with Commontime support and was told they are 99% certain that a WM5 compatible version will be released by 2nd November. Instead of making a beta available immediately, they will do a few more days testing and release a final.

It's November 2nd...
... did the 1% prevail? Anxiously awaiting the mNotes upgrade for WM5... any news?

Now it's the 3rd! WTF! I am regretting getting this jasjar becauase of commontime. If I knew mnotes didn't work I would have waited and got an XDA Exec.

BlackBerry Connect Will Not Install on Vodafone UK V1605

Followed the wiki instructions, but despite being sourced from Vodafone (Germany) for the VPA III, the software refuses to install on my V1605. The error message (translated from German) states System Software Found, the installation is not authorised.
Has anyone with a V1605 succeeded in installing BB Connect? Is this a possible clash with the Vodafone customisations or is it more likely a WM5 issue? Any suggestions gratefully received.
many thanks!
Jonathan

There is another BlackBerry connect client on the FTP, uploaded by Ice Blade and some discussion around it here.
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Hermes/Tools_and_Programs/BlackBerry_Connect/
I've just updated the wiki with this info, but I haven't tried it and Ice Blade didn't reply to my question. If you try it and know the diference between the two BBConnect clients available, please update de wiki and point it out. Thanks.

Thanks! This works a treat. I will take a look at the wiki and see if there is anything substantive I can add.
Jonathan

wiki has been updated. Works well. I am not watching this thread so if anyone would like assistance please PM me.

blackberry connect and Lotus Notes
Hi JBN - do you know if this works with Lotus Notes and handles calender and tasks along with mail - I'd love to finally junk the blackberry and just have Hermes

ramblings
I'm afraid that I have no experience with Lotus Notes at this level. I would note however that the BlackBerry Enterprise can indeed work with Lotus Notes.
For what it's worth, my BES Administrator tells me that the same level of security functionality exists for BlackBerry Connect as for a regular BB. This makes it an interesting proposition although more difficult to support in terms of the platform compared with BlackBerry. We are slowly looking at Microsoft Push E-mail instead.
Despite the BB-like experience, including the scroll wheel, after a couple of days I have gone back to my old BB. The reason being that I am unsure about battery life and platform stability. It is OK for me as an IT professional but not something that I feel comfortable deploying to our users yet. However, I am childishly excited at having a means to get BB service in Japan!

Blackberry Connect and Calendar
coe62 said:
Hi JBN - do you know if this works with Lotus Notes and handles calender and tasks along with mail - I'd love to finally junk the blackberry and just have Hermes
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I have been running Blackberry Connect for a while now on both my HTC Universal and on a TyTn (not at the same time). Whilst email works really well (using the vodafone Germany client), calendar is a different story.
Our Blackberry environment is Lotus Dominos (BES 4.0) and Calendar wireless sync has been a disaster.
Initially, the bulk calendar upload seems to have real trouble with "All Day Events" and canot represent them properly. However, once installed, everything seems to run really well. Two way sync back to teh Lotus Notes Calendar works, meetings invites in email can now be "accepted" or "declined". So far, so good....
However, when you reset the device, the whole device locks up and needs teh SIM taking out, BB Connect removing and start again!! Also, when you do this, random calendr events dissapear from your Notes calendar and meeting "declines" are often sent to the chair of the meeting!
Not good.
Hopefully BB Connect V4 will solve some of this....

SMS Syncing with Outlook/PC

Do any more of these exist other then Jeyo?
I've tried Jeyo and it doesn't play nice with Vista/Outlook 2007 - are there any others?
I dont mind if it's a stand alone application rather than an outlook plugin, but the latter is preferred.
Cheers

I have a program SMS Cool
I got it from Handango.
If you email me I can send you details, or you can get a demo of it.

That looks like it's been a while since it's been updated - not sure if it'll work with the new active sync/MDC in Vista?

Outlook Mobile 6....

Well, i have seen numerous versions of WM6 in the other parts of these forums, and we recently got AKU3.3 (which i am more than satisfied with..)
however, lots wants more (not sure that is the correct translation )
I wonder if there are any way to extract Outlook Mobile 6 from the WM6 and install/replace Outlook Mobile 5 (Wm5).
I believe stranger things has happen on these forums
why would I want this? Well, basically, html mailsupport and because of that stop using Flexmail (don't quite like it..it is good, but hey, Outlook are so much more integrated with the os + emoze works only with Outlook.
anyone is doing this already? knows if it is possible?

Keep in mind what you're asking for from your is actually a 3-component solution:
- Outlook for WM6 on the handheld
- Outlook 2007 on the desktop
- Exchange 2007 on the server

goestoeleven said:
Keep in mind what you're asking for from your is actually a 3-component solution:
- Outlook for WM6 on the handheld
- Outlook 2007 on the desktop
- Exchange 2007 on the server
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And?

I guess his point is that very very few organizations currently use Exchange 2007.

i got two out of three
however, does html mail ONLY work with exchange 2007? not imap for example? and why not with 2003?

klasikahl said:
I guess his point is that very very few organizations currently use Exchange 2007.
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Agreed but those numbers should increase in the short term.
And I got 2 out of the 3 as well

Hello - and can anyone help me sync Lotus Notes ???

Afternoon all...
I you might tell I'm very new to XDAdevelopers, the folks at Inkino suggested I take a look and get your advice as I've just taken the plunge and replaced my creaking Palm T3 witha shiney new HTC Touch HD and working being what is is I'm stuck with Lotus Notes 8 as a "productivity tool".
I'm somewhat grumpy to find that haven't dug very deep into my pocket for the HD and less deeply for the Sync "middle-ware" IBM EasySync Pro that the two won't talk and the whole exercise looks like a sectacular waste of money.
During the first sync, while loading EasySync Pro into the PDA memory (not the card) I get this message on the PDA:
cesetup.dll
"Unable to launch \Windows\211\XCPCSyncSvr.exe : Error 2"
I've tried tweaking the registry "HKLM - Security - Policies - Policies - 0000101b" to a "1", with no effect. I spoken with HTC support and they blame IBM, IBM are blaming HTC and WM6.1.
Not good -
Is there a tested solution ?
To recap
HTC Touch HD running WM6.1 -> Ibm EasySync Pro v4.2.6 -> Lotus Notes 8
I want to sync "Calendar", "Contacts", "Memos" and "To Dos" - not Email.
Any help or advide would be greatfully received...
Yours VeryGrumpy...

There's a lot of discussion about WM6.1 "security policies" - is the issue that EasySync Pro doesn't have a recognised Certificate ?
MS -vs- IBM ?

As a heads up
I think you'll be hardpressed to find much help on the topic, as I don't think Lotus Notes plays nice with wm.
Though I'd like to see lotus notes calander/email on wm as well

I use Lotus Notes (6.5 - I know!) at work. I use a piece of software (not free) called companionlink to sync to a google account.
Until recently I used OggSync to sync my Google account with my Touch HD, but have just started trying Googles Activesync client for Calendar and contacts.
The best I've seen is mNotes from Commontime (again not free) - it can even give you push syncronisation if your IT department will play ... if not then there's a desktop version.
The other approach I've tried is to sync my blackberry (supplied by the company and synced with Lotus Notes) to a google account and the Touch HD to the google account as well.
Not used it but emoze also claims to play with Lotus Notes, so it might be worth checking that out?

Solution in my case
Hello mate,
I had the same problem and here how I fixed it.
First of all start with a fresh installation.
1. Remove EasySync from your PC
2. Uninstall EasySync from you HD
3. After that navigate to \Windows\211 and delete the folder 211.
You will not be able to do it right away so you will need to rename to 211v and then back again to 211. Once you do this, delete the folder.
4. Reinstall and it should work.
Now the tricky part that happens when you restart your HD.
Download MortScript( http://sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=65 ). You can read in the website to get more info for this app. if you are not already familiar with it. It basically allows you to run batch files.
After that open notepad and copy paste this piece of "code" and save it as XCPCSyncSvr_101.mscr and put it in \windows\startup folder but make sure you delete the application start up link in the \windows\startup
Rename("\Windows\211","\Windows\211v")
Rename("\Windows\211v","\Windows\211")
Run("\Windows\211\XCPCSyncSvr.exe")
If(ProcExists("XCPCSyncSvr.exe"))
SleepMessage(3,"XCPCSyncSvr started")
Else
Message("XCPCSyncSvr NOT started!")
EndIf
This will do the trick. Make sure that you will do this procedure before you restart your HD.
If something is unclear let me know to clarify it.
(I found the solution in a search long time ago, so credit to them)
Please let me know, how this worked for you.

Svegetto said:
I think you'll be hardpressed to find much help on the topic, as I don't think Lotus Notes plays nice with wm.
Though I'd like to see lotus notes calander/email on wm as well
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Am working Lotus Notes with EasySync Pro with absolutely no problems . Also the calendar in WM is very good, as you can see the attendees and also the topic which a meeting created in Notes includes.
I will post a screenshot later today.

moukis said:
Am working Lotus Notes with EasySync Pro with absolutely no problems . Also the calendar in WM is very good, as you can see the attendees and also the topic which a meeting created in Notes includes.
I will post a screenshot later today.
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Please do; seems like I have some work coming my way to sync up the HD with lotus notes. Well done on your part

The fix !
moukis said:
Hello mate,
I had the same problem and here how I fixed it.
First of all start with a fresh installation.
1. Remove EasySync from your PC
2. Uninstall EasySync from you HD
3. After that navigate to \Windows\211 and delete the folder 211.
You will not be able to do it right away so you will need to rename to 211v and then back again to 211. Once you do this, delete the folder.
4. Reinstall and it should work.
Now the tricky part that happens when you restart your HD.
Download MortScript( http://sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=65 ). You can read in the website to get more info for this app. if you are not already familiar with it. It basically allows you to run batch files.
After that open notepad and copy paste this piece of "code" and save it as XCPCSyncSvr_101.mscr and put it in \windows\startup folder but make sure you delete the application start up link in the \windows\startup
Rename("\Windows\211","\Windows\211v")
Rename("\Windows\211v","\Windows\211")
Run("\Windows\211\XCPCSyncSvr.exe")
If(ProcExists("XCPCSyncSvr.exe"))
SleepMessage(3,"XCPCSyncSvr started")
Else
Message("XCPCSyncSvr NOT started!")
EndIf
This will do the trick. Make sure that you will do this procedure before you restart your HD.
If something is unclear let me know to clarify it.
(I found the solution in a search long time ago, so credit to them)
Please let me know, how this worked for you.
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Superb - it worked first time...
I wasn't too sure about the MortScript install being new to WM devices but it all came together
THANK YOU !!!

@ verygrumpy
Am really glad that it worked out for you
@ Svegetto
Here are some screenshots from my calendar sync with notes. Unfortunately am not using email sync.

I am a Lotus Notes Administrator at work just had a read of this thread.
Has your IT department investigated Lotus Traveler.
Push email, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Journal synching and pushing for lotus domino servers to Windows mobile or symbian devices.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler.html
We use this at work with HP Ipaqs instead of blackberry or BES (as this is free if you already have a notes licence so the only cost is the hardware of the device which you have already)
and its very very good expecially if your company is running a 8.5 domino server where encryption, notes rich text and even sametime (instant messaging) can be gotten working.
Jeremy

You can also consider the use of mNotes from Cadenza.
It i not free, but works really well

How?
jeremymacmull said:
I am a Lotus Notes Administrator at work just had a read of this thread.
Has your IT department investigated Lotus Traveler.
Push email, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Journal synching and pushing for lotus domino servers to Windows mobile or symbian devices.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler.html
We use this at work with HP Ipaqs instead of blackberry or BES (as this is free if you already have a notes licence so the only cost is the hardware of the device which you have already)
and its very very good expecially if your company is running a 8.5 domino server where encryption, notes rich text and even sametime (instant messaging) can be gotten working.
Jeremy
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Jeremy how do you push it? Do you need to connect with vpn? Because in my case i have to connect to the company's vpn (split tunneling vpn) and then to retrieve my mail.

moukis said:
Jeremy how do you push it? Do you need to connect with vpn? Because in my case i have to connect to the company's vpn (split tunneling vpn) and then to retrieve my mail.
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I use Traveller myself on my company phone (TyTn 2) and it's a great piece of software.
I have never a lot of success with VPN connections on WM, but that said I've never really tried that hard at it either. If you can establish a VPN connection on your device then it should work quite happily.
The best solution would be to find someone in your IT department who would be interested in getting it rolled out. If Notes / Domino is your corporate mail platform and you have a number of workers with WM phones this shouldn't be hard.
Traveller itself can run over HTTPS and uses Domino authentication so it's fairly secure and forwarding it's ports through the firewall offers very little risk.
Whatever you do it's going to involve your IT dept. as the software has to be installed on a server, but the installation is easy enough that I rolled it out in about 15 minutes.

moukis said:
Hello mate,
I had the same problem and here how I fixed it.
First of all start with a fresh installation.
1. Remove EasySync from your PC
2. Uninstall EasySync from you HD
3. After that navigate to \Windows\211 and delete the folder 211.
You will not be able to do it right away so you will need to rename to 211v and then back again to 211. Once you do this, delete the folder.
4. Reinstall and it should work.
Now the tricky part that happens when you restart your HD.
Download MortScript( http://sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=65 ). You can read in the website to get more info for this app. if you are not already familiar with it. It basically allows you to run batch files.
After that open notepad and copy paste this piece of "code" and save it as XCPCSyncSvr_101.mscr and put it in \windows\startup folder but make sure you delete the application start up link in the \windows\startup
Rename("\Windows\211","\Windows\211v")
Rename("\Windows\211v","\Windows\211")
Run("\Windows\211\XCPCSyncSvr.exe")
If(ProcExists("XCPCSyncSvr.exe"))
SleepMessage(3,"XCPCSyncSvr started")
Else
Message("XCPCSyncSvr NOT started!")
EndIf
This will do the trick. Make sure that you will do this procedure before you restart your HD.
If something is unclear let me know to clarify it.
(I found the solution in a search long time ago, so credit to them)
Please let me know, how this worked for you.
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Great!! finally this works. I will see that IBM will get this information so they can update there techdocs.
at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docvi...475&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct465lotus
Thank you,
Bart Altena

Lotus Traveller and VPN
moukis said:
Jeremy how do you push it? Do you need to connect with vpn? Because in my case i have to connect to the company's vpn (split tunneling vpn) and then to retrieve my mail.
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I'm a Notes consultant and have Traveller working beautifully with our VPN. Our server is Domino 8.5 but it is designed to work with 8.0 also. The Traveller install was very easy and can be freely installed on Domino servers. I have an HTC S620 with WM6.0. I had awful trouble getting a PPTP VPN connection to work and finally gave up (seems to be an issue with PPTP client in WM6.0). However, it works really well with an L2TP connection with certificates. It automatically syncs your mail, calendar, and tasks. If you use Actions\Synchronize Address Book and Actions\Synchronize Journal while in your mail , it will also sync your contacts and personal journal. It can auto-sync or you can do it manually. Mostly I do it manually over wi-fi but it works on GPRS too. I've chucked out my Blackberry in favour of this solution.

Thanks a lot for this workaround!! Just installed it and works pretty fine!
I was looking for something like that for almost four month

One way feasible is the above way, thanks.
And I found that if not run TF3D, there is no suh issue.

if you want to go a step further with notes, try to look into Onebridge.
it will require to put some additional infrastructure to your notes environment, but at the same time you can make really secure access.
this will enable your users to sync thru gprs, wi-fi, etc. with home notes servers. infrastructure could be distributed, access gateways could be installed in different countries for your notes environment.
scalable, relaible solution for your Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Symbian Nokia and SonyEricsson, Palm OS, and OMA DS/SyncML, to sync with Notes and also with exchange.
regards,
won't be cheap

Try to use MNotes
http://www.commontime.com/

to moukis >>> hey bro, any explanation why the need to rename and execute separately? The difference between the mortscript and the .lnk is only the 'rename' line. I tried and it worked perfectly. Just want to know