Pocket PC 2003 compatible with Outlook 2000?

[craigvalk]

I currently use my IPAQ 3950 / PPC 2002 syncing my email and calendar with Outlook 2000.
If I upgrade to Pocket PC 2003, will I still be able to talk to Outlook 2000, or does it only talk to Outlook 2002?
I understand an ActiveSync upgrade is also needed, correct?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Craig

[amac]

Hi,
I upgraded to Mobile 2003 and got no Problems with my Outlook 2000. Contacts, tasks, email and calender all works fine. Sometimes I get problems with my mailsync, as I had with PPC 2002 too, but with new Mails or moving Mails from the Inbox to another Folder fixes the problem...
Amac

[IowaArchitect]

Don't count on Outlook 2003 (the business contact manager portion) working with PPC - that is a non-functioning item. I would't upgrade Outlook beyond 2002.

[minimage]

Hmmm...but I am using Outlook 2003 at work. I haven't noticed any problems with my PPC2002 device, but perhaps I'm not asking of it what it will not do. Can you explain more? I must look into this further.

[Janak Parekh]

Hmmm...but I am using Outlook 2003 at work. I haven't noticed any problems with my PPC2002 device, but perhaps I'm not asking of it what it will not do. Can you explain more? I must look into this further.
IowaArchitect is talking about one special addon (http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/contactmanager/prodinfo/default.mspx) of Outlook 2003. I don't think it comes with every edition, in fact. From my limited experience, Outlook 2003 itself works just fine with ActiveSync...

--janak

[ctmagnus]

But Outlook 2003 will still synchronize standard contacts even if Business Contact Manager is installed, won't it? I've only played with BCM a tiny bit and that was on a machine that didn't sync with anything else.

[ironguy]

I sync with OL 2000 at work, go home and sync with OL2003. I have no problems at all. I have an iPaq 2215.