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Old 10-30-2006, 05:39 PM
Philip Colmer
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Originally Posted by ketchup
From what I've seen, "Direct push" is not.
The Exchange server sends and SMS message to the device and then the device uses that as a trigger to retrieve the messages from the server. (if you doubt this, set it up and then check your "text message" usage for your carrier.)
No, that is the old way that Exchange did "direct push".

With Service Pack 2 on Exchange and Windows Mobile 2005, you get true direct push of email.

If you haven't got SP2, or you haven't got WM2005, you will be using the older method but that is not direct push in the context of this article.

--Philip
 
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