Probably not possible but I had to ask

[Stake]

I've tried to find out information on this and though it doesn't seem promising, I have to ask.

Here's the situation:

My company is on a wide area network. A user is synching his PPC to one machine in NY (Primary) and another in Chicago (Secondary). He needs to sync often because his calendar changes every 5 minutes. Problem is he's getting random duplications on his calendar and contacts because he's syncing with two computers So, instead of a laptop, I was wondering if he could sync his PPC through the cradle to the computer in NY. He's got a 1910 so any network connections are out.

So far, it doesn't seem likely but if anyone knows of any alternatives, please let me know.

Thanks...

PS: So far in the past few months, I've gotten 4 people to switch from Palms to a PPC (HP 1910) and the best part, they truly think it's better than what they had!

[PetiteFlower]

I'm wondering why you posted this in the Axim forum?

I'm also not exactly sure what you're asking--are you asking if he can somehow remotely sync to a computer in a different city? I could be way off, but I'm thinking that if he has a way of remotely connecting to that desktop(via Win XP or NT) then maybe he can sync while remotely connected? Anyone familiar with remote connections want to confirm or deny?

[Janak Parekh]

I think your best bet is to fix 2-machine ActiveSync'ing. It should generally work, unless you're trying to sync to the same Exchange mailbox from two different places. If so, the correct long-term solution is to deploy Mobile Information Server (or Exchange 2003) -- that will support proper server-side syncing from wherever you are. As a possible alternative, something like IntelliSync might handle multiple syncs to the same mailbox more efficiently.

As for passthrough sync, I don't think that'll work, for a simple reason -- you've already used up the ActiveSync session for the passthru, so you can't start another instance of ActiveSync for the network connection. There is one esoteric possibility -- PPP over IR, but that's a pretty rare setup, and I haven't tested it.

--janak

[Stake]

Yeah, I don't know why I posted here but I subconsciously posted here because I was using a Axim to do some testing. I figured that the MS Information Server would be the best thing to do but I know we won't be doing that anytime soon.

I should get this moved to the general chat shouldn't I...

Thanks for the help.

[Pony99CA]

My company is on a wide area network. A user is synching his PPC to one machine in NY (Primary) and another in Chicago (Secondary). He needs to sync often because his calendar changes every 5 minutes. Problem is he's getting random duplications on his calendar and contacts because he's syncing with two computers So, instead of a laptop, I was wondering if he could sync his PPC through the cradle to the computer in NY.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Here's my synopsis of what I understand. Tell me if I've summarized it correctly.

User is syncing in an unspecified manner with computer A in New York and computer B in Chicago. This causes duplicates. You want to somehow sync using a cradle with computer A in New York, hoping that will fix the problem.

First, why would syncing using the cradle with computer A fix duplicates if syncing via whatever method the user is using now doesn't? Second, will you still need to sync with computer B in Chicago? Finally, where does the laptop enter into this?

Steve