jgrnt1
10-02-2007, 08:45 PM
This may take a little explaining, so I apologize in advance for the wordiness of this post. Our company has supported Blackberries for a long time and has just recently added WM device support (sort of). I have an AT&T 8525. Unlike the Blackberry, WM support comes from using our webmail as the server and we set it up ourselves (enter the server in ActiveSync, set encryption and enter login/password). We just need to have a PPC phone and a data plan, both of which I have.
Currently I sync my phone with my personal PC at home, not with my company laptop, so I do not sync with a server. The company does not require me to keep a calendar on the server, so I don't, because I keep a lot of personal stuff on the calendar -- kids' games and school events, wife's meetings, etc. These are important from a family perspective, but also from a schedule perspective, since I travel a lot and try to schedule my trips around these events. I currently DO NOT sync email at all.
Since the OS upgrade on the phone, I have been using ActiveSync on the company laptop, so I could use the phone with Internet Sharing. I sync nothing with the laptop, but needed ActiveSync to enable Internet Sharing (previously, I used Cingular Connection Manager). Now for the question(s):
Can I sync only email with the webmail server and continue to sync everything else with my home PC? I would like to continue to keep my calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and files on my personal PC, but enable email on the phone from the webmail server. If it makes a difference, my personal PC is running Vista, so I use WMDC instead of ActiveSync.
If I cannot do this, is there a way to sync everything locally and with the server?
My assumption is no to both questions, but I'm hoping somebody much more clever than me has done something like this.
Currently I sync my phone with my personal PC at home, not with my company laptop, so I do not sync with a server. The company does not require me to keep a calendar on the server, so I don't, because I keep a lot of personal stuff on the calendar -- kids' games and school events, wife's meetings, etc. These are important from a family perspective, but also from a schedule perspective, since I travel a lot and try to schedule my trips around these events. I currently DO NOT sync email at all.
Since the OS upgrade on the phone, I have been using ActiveSync on the company laptop, so I could use the phone with Internet Sharing. I sync nothing with the laptop, but needed ActiveSync to enable Internet Sharing (previously, I used Cingular Connection Manager). Now for the question(s):
Can I sync only email with the webmail server and continue to sync everything else with my home PC? I would like to continue to keep my calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and files on my personal PC, but enable email on the phone from the webmail server. If it makes a difference, my personal PC is running Vista, so I use WMDC instead of ActiveSync.
If I cannot do this, is there a way to sync everything locally and with the server?
My assumption is no to both questions, but I'm hoping somebody much more clever than me has done something like this.