To synch your SmartPhone with Microsoft Exchange using ActiveSync -
If you had a choice between using a free hosted account on a Microsoft
Exchange 2003 server, or one that costs about $10 per month on a
Microsoft Exchange 2007 server, which would you pick and why?

I'm only looking for benefits from the SmartPhone (Samsung Blackjack2)
client perspective (not admin or server management benefits)

At 23 Jul 2008 18:26:56 -0700 taxenqs******.com wrote:
> To synch your SmartPhone with Microsoft Exchange using ActiveSync -
> If you had a choice between using a free hosted account on a Microsoft
> Exchange 2003 server, or one that costs about $10 per month on a
> Microsoft Exchange 2007 server, which would you pick and why?

Typically the free Exchange accounts (like mail2web's) are limited by lack
of RAPI support, meaning you can't sync desktop Outlook with it, but are
limited to using OWA (Outlook Web Access.) I have one of these free
mail2web accounts for push e-mail. (This isn't a limitation of Exchange
2003, but a licensing restriction.)


> I'm only looking for benefits from the SmartPhone (Samsung Blackjack2)
> client perspective (not admin or server management benefits)


The only one that comes to mind is HTML e-mail support- WM6 supports HTML
on Exchange 2007 e-mail, but not on 2003. I'm not sure that's worth
$120/year!

First, let me say that if the phone is the main place where you see mail and
you are not used to sit down with a computer and Outlook for that, then it
will be worth the 120$ per year.

But there are some additional features:

- Out-of-Office agent setting from the device
- Fetch feature for downloading a single message without a full send/receive
- Remote wipe of the SD card (additionally to the device memory) if device
is lost
- Check who has accepted an Outlook Meeting Invitation
- Online Search for Mail messages at the server

If you need those, it is well worth it.

Helio

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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor - PocketPCFreak.com



"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:g68rnn$ks3$1@aioe.org...
> At 23 Jul 2008 18:26:56 -0700 taxenqs******.com wrote:
>> To synch your SmartPhone with Microsoft Exchange using ActiveSync -
>> If you had a choice between using a free hosted account on a Microsoft
>> Exchange 2003 server, or one that costs about $10 per month on a
>> Microsoft Exchange 2007 server, which would you pick and why?
>
> Typically the free Exchange accounts (like mail2web's) are limited by lack
> of RAPI support, meaning you can't sync desktop Outlook with it, but are
> limited to using OWA (Outlook Web Access.) I have one of these free
> mail2web accounts for push e-mail. (This isn't a limitation of Exchange
> 2003, but a licensing restriction.)
>
>
>> I'm only looking for benefits from the SmartPhone (Samsung Blackjack2)
>> client perspective (not admin or server management benefits)
>
>
> The only one that comes to mind is HTML e-mail support- WM6 supports HTML
> on Exchange 2007 e-mail, but not on 2003. I'm not sure that's worth
> $120/year!
>
>