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Xpress Mail and outlook Contacts

Ok i did a search could not find what i was looking for.....i just got a 6525 as my old 6700 was getting old....now with my 6700 i used wireless sync and it work good...i could get all my emails, Contacts, and my outlook calendar just fine. and i dont have a exchange server...just my home desktop....not with Cingular's Xpress mail i just get my email......any help would be great...

Hi gnafin. On my Cingular 8525, installing XpressMail gave me two icons in Start->Programs ... Xpress Mail Settings and Xpress Mail Calendar. The installation also added Xpress Mail Calendar as a plugin on my Today screen. In my configuration, the Xpress Mail Calendar syncs to my Outlook Calendar when I attach via ActiveSync at my work computer.
Using Contacts->Menu->Xpress Mail Contacts, you can retrieve selected entries from your Corporate Address Book and add them to your Outlook Contacts.
As this is my first PDA, I have no other experience to compare this with, but the setup works OK for me.
Hope this helps.
-pvs

I do have that...just on my vx6700 with wireless sync i could sync my outlook when i push my mail......could i use wireless sync?

gnafin said:
I do have that...just on my vx6700 with wireless sync i could sync my outlook when i push my mail......could i use wireless sync?
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Sorry gnafin, but I really don't know. As I have stated, this 8525 is my first PDA experience, so I don't even know what you're referring to by the term "wireless sync".
I simply use Xpress Mail to push my email and calendar from my work account. XM does a fairly good job with this, when my Corporate Server is working at the same time as XpressMail's I already have most of the corporate contacts I need in my Outlook Address Book, but whenever I need another one, it is easy to get using the XM Contacts thing I mentioned in my previous message. All of these happen wirelessly, except for synchronizing the two calendars, which seems to require an AS connection while I'm at my work PC.
Sorry I couldn't be more help than this. I hope somebody else here (who's got a lot more experience than I) can be of assistance.
Best regards, and good luck,
-pvs

Exchange ActiveSync Not Synching Folders

I have been using Exchange Activesync on my 8525 since I first received it. Until now, I have been fine with just checking emails in my inbox. But due to some new responsibilities at work I am receiving entirely too many emails to keep in the inbox.
I have set up filters in Outlook so that they will go to their specified folder. The devices shows the folders listed in messaging, however no emails go into them (nor do they come to the inbox).
I am using Exchange Server 2003 SP2. Is there anything I can do for this?
Thanks

I know what you mean, I have the same issue... You do know you can search the Exchange Server from your phone though, right? The results that are returned, I believe, include all folders inside your mailbox. Helps if your looking for a specific email, etc...
Cheers.

Hello,
In Pocket Outlook choose Menu->Tools->Manage Folders
And choose folders you want to synchronize.
Just as simple as that
Regards,
XrM

XrM said:
Hello,
In Pocket Outlook choose Menu->Tools->Manage Folders
And choose folders you want to synchronize.
Just as simple as that
Regards,
XrM
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Works great. Thanks a lot.

Mail2web calendar and desktop oulook calendar
After signing up with mail2web live version my active sync has two accounts. The outlook account I familiar with and the exchange server account via mail2web.com.
Is it possilbe to sync my desktop calendar under activesync with the exchange server calendar? Any pointing to help, threads or pdf manuals would be greatly appreciated.
Ciao
Darrell

If you activated both calendars to sync-they'll be combinded.

activate calendars?
That refreshing, I haven't come across those key words. How do I activate both calendars? Not finding anything, easily, in help or microsoft forums

Need help migrating to Nike from older PDA

I've just upgraded to a Nike from a Wizard (ran wm5) and I really want to be able to take off my non-outloook email and sms messages and import to the new pda.
I've managed the contacts and calendar through active sync, but nothing else... any ideas?
Thanks

For Mails, SMS and MMS use PIM BackUp 2.8, best app ever for those jobs!

Thanks animelover - Very useful indeed. I've managed to get all my old SMS transferred. The email didn't work out, but I'm not too bothered about that.

For eMail you can use Outlook!

Well not for accounts you set up outside of your pc outlook... I had some folders and emails sorted into various places on the pda - although it's a yahoo account and I left them all on the server.
Just means I have to manually sort them all out (if I can be bothered!).
Cheers, Dan.

Sync contacts from home PC but calandar and mail from work exchange server?

Hi
I was just wondering if it possible to sync my contacts from my home PC using Outlook and my calandar and mail from my works Outlook exchange server on the HD2.
I am a current iPhone user and am interested in moving over to the HD2 as it looks like an awsome phone. I can do the above on the iPhone but can't find any information as to wheather this is possible on the HD2. Searched the forums but can't find an answer!
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks

I don't see why this wouldn't be possible.
You can select to only link (via Exchange) your calendar and mail, I've done this. Then you just need to configure Activesync or Mobile Device Center to sync your contacts with Outlook.

Yes you can, a friend of mine has it set up that way. As Nighthawk said, it's just a case of configuring the sync right (you just have to tick boxes, so nothing challenging there!)

Dont know whether it helps, but I use an excellant app called Chronobis which allows me to pull (one way) my calendar from my work exchange server. It will also handle email & contacts.
I'm using this as I dont want to mix my home outlook contacts & calendar which I sync with Active Sync with my work stuff.
So I sync normally with Activesync and then download my work calendar which merges with my HD2 calendar... when I do an activesync... both work and home calendars are then together in Outlook.
I think in your situation you will be fine as you are not trying to "merge" contacts and calendars from 2 places at the same time.

Brilliant, thanks for your replies guys.

Yes this can be done, i do this with two exchange servers, one from my work and the other my gmail account.
Basically i sync my calendar and contacts with both and only sync my email from work.
I did this on my polaris and now on my hd2. Initially i wasn't too sure if the the hd2 would do this natively so i went with the regitry hack i used on my polaris. Perhaps someone could confirm that this can be done on the hd2 without the registry hack.
Here is the link to what i did with my polaris (and now my hd2).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4524890&postcount=24

Birthdays & Calendar

Greetings,
I have a problem which I heard around the places before but haven't found any solution.
So, we have a contact - then we add a birthday date for it, after all the calendar does not remind us about it in any possible way.
I must enter an event by myself.
Writing this after almost missing the birthday yersterday of a closed one.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks.
P.S. I know about "Manila Birthday for Leo", but still I want to have a full synchronized contact list with calendar, can I?

Any help guys?

try entering the contact into the microsoft contact app.

you need to sync your callendar with outlook, then you will see birthdays in your HD2 in callendar

Can that be done automatically? Or you need sync with Outlook every time to add birthdays into calendar? Because after synchronizing it I may add some new ones' and still they would not be displayed.

you need to have set B'days in your contacts in the field Birthday. if you do and then you sync Contacts and Callendar with Outlook, then Outlook will automatically assign B'days to your callendar. if you enter birthday to a contact after syncing, then you ofcourse need to sync again.
I synchronize my HD2 with Outlook once per week to be updated as much as possible.
also in case of losing your device you have all contacts and callendar in Outlook

Or if you don't use outlook, you can install "Manila Birthday", it detects all birthday entries in your contacts, and adds calendar entries for them.
You can even set it to repeat those entries every year.
Works very well here.

use a free app called birthday2calendar. it scans your contacts and syncs the birthdays with the calendar. works fine here so far and it's small and free!
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-b2c-birthday2calendar.html

Thanks for answers people, as far as I understood we can't sync it automatically like in Nokia phones. Too bad...

You can do it automatically only if you use full Outlook features. It's quite normal for Microsoft to promote its own products...