Question on "push" features

[mmcguire]

I am just now setting up the push technology for our Exchange 2003 and Mobile devices. One thing that I notice that I want to confirm if this is normal. We I read an email on my mobile device it does not mark it as read on my PC based Outlook client. It does work the other way around. Is this normal?

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Unfortunately yes. I think you can get around it by doing a manual send and receive after reading the mail on the device, but that kind of makes push a misnomer ;)

[Paul Mah]

Hi,

Basically, the earlier version of Microsoft's 'push' mail called Auto-Up-To-Date (AUTD) works as you described. The newer version called "Direct Push" features "true" push mail in which read/deleted mail on your Windows Mobile device can be automatically synch'ed with your MS Exchange.

I say "can be" because there are a few settings that you need to ensure are properly set first. Additionally, to be able to use direct push, you first need a Windows Mobile 5.0 with MSFP (or better yet, AKU2 and above) together with an MS Exchange 2003 SP2 server-side setup.

In fact, I am in the midst of writing a comprehensive guide on push mail. You can find out more information at my personal blog at www.techatplay.com (http://www.techatplay.com/direct-push-guide/).

Regards,
Paul Mah.