07-08-2005, 11:50 PM
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Executive Editor
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Microsoft Global Contact Access
 "With Microsoft Global Contact Access, you can use Pocket Outlook on your Windows Mobile-based Smartphone or Pocket PC Phone Edition to look up contacts in the Global Address List (GAL) on your corporate Exchange server. You can also check your co-workers' schedules to see if they're free or busy, and add multiple recipients to a meeting request. Even if you're away from your office you'll have all the information you need to connect with any co-worker in your organization, and send them e-mail or request a meeting."
I don't have access to a GAL, but I know for many businesses this will be an important piece of software for their devices. Go grab it!
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07-09-2005, 01:34 AM
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Contributing Editor
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That's something i'll have to try. it would be nice if it would let you save the gal people to your local contacts.
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07-09-2005, 04:26 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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I just installed this today. It requires a bit of forethought to use. First, I had to uncheck "Forms" for it to connect to my server. No clue what "forms" are or what I am missing by having to uncheck it.
Then, you have to decide, are you going to send an email with someone in your GAL? If so, you have to start with this app, add that person or people, then press OK. It transfers the addresses to Inbox and opens a new message preaddressed. Now add others from your contact list and you are ready to go.
I would never use this for someone I email several times a week - I'd just create a contact, but it is great for those you don't often contact, or for people in larger organizations.
Overall, one of the better Power Toys since "Power Contacts" from years gone by. 
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07-09-2005, 04:38 AM
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Oh, it also finds distribution lists in the GAL. :way to go:
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07-09-2005, 05:40 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
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The page says SmartPhone or Pocket PC Phone Edition only. Does it work on a normal Pocket PC (assuming that Pocket PC has a connection to the Exchange server)?
--Philip
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07-09-2005, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Philip Colmer
The page says SmartPhone or Pocket PC Phone Edition only. Does it work on a normal Pocket PC (assuming that Pocket PC has a connection to the Exchange server)?
--Philip
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You can try it. It requires a real-time connection to the server. It cannot be use offline at all. It doesn't pull down the GAL and make a local database.
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07-09-2005, 06:06 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
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Originally Posted by Philip Colmer
The page says SmartPhone or Pocket PC Phone Edition only. Does it work on a normal Pocket PC (assuming that Pocket PC has a connection to the Exchange server)?
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It doesn't look like it ... I can't get it to install. The Pocket PC Add/Remove programs window just appears but doesn't do anything.
Shame, really. Guess I'll have to try again when I get my next device.
--Philip
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07-11-2005, 02:36 AM
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I would recommend holding off on this if you have a PDA2K. It makes changes to the NEW menu to allow for tae new search options for addressing and in doing that, somehow it prohibits accessing MMS Settings. Uninstalling it resolved it. 
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07-11-2005, 03:41 AM
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If they can tweak this with the suggestions that've been made here, this could be a very important capability. When I had a Blackberry, having access to the global addess list was VERY helpful. It wasn't any more user-friendly than the one described here, but it was still a good tool to have.
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07-11-2005, 04:42 PM
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Contributing Editor
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
I would recommend holding off on this if you have a PDA2K. It makes changes to the NEW menu to allow for tae new search options for addressing and in doing that, somehow it prohibits accessing MMS Settings. Uninstalling it resolved it. |
I already have that problem.. HP mobile printing messes up the mms setting option also. I have to do a reg hack to access them. so this really isn't a change for me. 
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