I now have a desktop, a laptop and a netbook PC. Unfortunately you can only
sync two PCs with Windows mobile phones. Has anyone thought of a way of
getting round this (other than having to unlock and then copy the outlook
file between PCs each time) without me having to manually update the
calendar etc on at least one of the computers?

At 23 Aug 2009 13:33:54 +0100 Beagle wrote:
> I now have a desktop, a laptop and a netbook PC. Unfortunately you can
> only sync two PCs with Windows mobile phones. Has anyone thought of a
> way of getting round this (other than having to unlock and then copy the
> outlook file between PCs each time) without me having to manually update
> the calendar etc on at least one of the computers?


I also have three PCs running Outlook, plus three Windows Mobile devices to
all keep in sync, so for me, a server to sync to was the best option.
Being a cheapskate, I chose the open-source Funambol software
<www.funambol.com> as my solution rather than hosted Exchange (about $8-15
US/month.) You install a Funambol plug-in on each Outlook equipped PC, a
sync client on each mobile device, and everything syncs to a Funambol server.

I use Funambol's my.funambol.com server, but third-party servers exist, or
you can install the free server software on your own PC and keep your data
out of the cloud if you prefer.

If you only have one mobile device, you could get away with using any number
of Outlook sync products (like Funambol, or Plaxo, etc.) to sync the
computers together, and just sync the mobile with one of the PCs- and let
the changes propagate between the other PCs via whatever sync solution you
choose. According to Activesync on my mobile, my last PC sync was a little
over a year ago. I've been cloud syncing with Funambol ever since. I
can't remember the last time I physically connected my mobile to my desktop-
Funambol handles my PIM sync, and Microsoft's Live Mesh syncs my files.