The product is called FolderMirror, and it looks like it may be similar in concept to the Blackberry Desktop Redirector in that it seems to be a desktop product that monitors Outlook, and not a server-side product:
http://www.chapura.com/foldermirror_works.php So that's a shortcoming, but for the people who really need it might not be too serious. -- Durf On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Add2Exchange scares the Dejesus out of me. We tried it here a year or so > ago to do exactly what the OP is asking about. It promptly created duplicate > calendar and contact items for everyone it had been implemented for. Their > support amounted to them stating that their product couldn't possibly do > what I was saying, so they wouldn't help at all. They were kind enough to > refund my money. Thank goodness for Outlook Deduplicator. > > On a related note, I spoke at length about this (in my eyes) shortcoming in > Exchange, 2 years ago at TechEd and their response at that time was that > they had no intention of ever exposing Public Folders via Windows Mobile > because Microsoft intends to kill off PFs at some point in the foreseeable > future and they didn't want to waste development time and money on something > that would be obsolete soon. Their answer was to use SharePoint via your WM > device. I pointed out that SharePoint in "mobile" mode drops all photos > which is the really nice "extra" that Contacts have over GAL browsing on a > mobile device, to which their answer was "Huh? Never thought of that." > > We ended creating a process where users have to manually copy over the > contents of a Public Contact Folder to their personal Contacts folder to get > updates. We do have categories created so that it is very simple to delete > the old copy before importing a new version, but it is far from perfect. > Unfortunately Microsoft has no interest in fixing this gap. > > If Chapura does work, I will a very happy dude. > > Tim > > > > *From:* Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:25 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Syncing Iphone to a Shared Contacts Folder > > > > The new Chapura product will allegedly do this, I hear from a co-worker. > > Failing that, Add2Exchange...although that solution is like using a Buick > to swat a fly. > > -- Durf > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Clyde Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Customer is using Exchange Server 2003 and now wants to sync the contacts > on their Iphone to a shared contacts folder instead of their default > contacts folder. Has anyone dealt with issue before? Any 3rd party software > products out there yet that will support this? > > > > Clyde Bennett, President > > Clyde Bennett and Associates > > 1011-A S. Congress Ave. > > Austin, Tx 78704-1126 > > Voice (512) 442-3744 > > FAX (512) 442-4014 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -------------- > Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. > Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! > > > > > -- -------------- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
