andoid and outlook

[pussycat1]

does anyone know what program to use to sync outlook contacts and calendar with an android pda on a business network? the pda is htc, htc sync does not work for a user, only an administrator, have tried companion link but can't get it to work, same trouble with myphoneexplorer. about to give up.

[ChuckFickens]

Important question and can't go any further unless you answer this.

What email system does this "business nettwork" run?

Is it outsourced to another provider or is it local and/or is it Exchange or some other sort of mail system?

[pussycat1]

it is exchange 2003 on a server running windows server 2003

[ChuckFickens]

OK, the standard android email program supports Exchange fine.

All you should need is the external name of the server, your username and password

However, if you are adding a mobile device to your companies exchange server then it should be your companies IT department that are doing it, not you.

[pussycat1]

yes, that is to set up a pop3, i want to sync my contacts and my calendar with outlook and the new android pda. i did it easy with windows mobile device center when i had a pda with windows mobile 6.5 on it. stuck with the android one, nothing works.

[ehtubert]

This is a public folders problem not only confined to android OS devices.

The way I synchronise public folders is through a Outlook add-in OLMixedFolders. OLMixedFolders uses a “Slavefolder” (with the standard Outlook folder for calendars, contacts, tasks etc. and special sub-folders) and a “Masterfolder” (to be synchronised with the “Slavefolder”). The synchronisation can be filtered criteria and can also be set to synchronise one or two directional (between Slave- and Masterfolder). Once you set it up it runs automatically in the background between your desktop (on the network) and your android PDA, see: http://www.somebytes....1-OLMixedFolders.html