Question on synching with Outlook

[Leonid]

IT at my company found an awesome app for MS Outlook. TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) .

It syncs e-mail, calendar, contacts (I have over 5,000 contacts), task lists, etc. Effortlessly.

Cost - only $9.

[Caindris]

unbelieveable..at my store this phone was in a business phone display. and was told it would sync to outlook. needless to say i didnt dig deeper to see if i couldnt simply usb and sync my contacts and calendar and it be correct and complete. this is a standard program for a majority of smart phone users.

i love the droid but PLEASE lets get an app soon!

So forgive my mis-understanding here but why would you want to sync to outlook when it has built in exchange syncing? Outlook is nothing more then a front-end program with Exchange being the back-end. Presuming you're using Exchange 2007 (I have no experience administrating any earlier Exchanges) all of your contacts, calendar, e-mail, etc. would be loaded onto the phone.

Granted I can't speak to experience as of yet until my Droid arrives on tuesday. Sorry for the minor thread necroing

[pbz]

I don't think csouleles necessarily could use Exchange, if he's sole proprietor of a very small business. But he does have a company domain, so maybe it's set up like that, with Exchange? So, maybe someone should mention Google Calendar Sync? It'll sync contacts and calendar, and you can import your other email addresses into it, and then automatically receive that mail on your Droid without any effort. I do think Droids take a bit more hands-on for configuring than getting a Windows Mobile phone, with all of its packaged apps. And I'm not happy that there's no easy, free, way to sync Outlook Notes with the Droid. gSyncIt will do Notes (and other stuff I didn't need due to the Google Sync setup) but it costs $$. Maybe $40. So I've been hoping to find a free alternative. I've tried the free trial (only 20 Notes max), and it works great. So I may use it. But the Outlook Calendar & Contacts work fine with Google Calendar Sync. Check out their help site:
Sync with Microsoft Outlook - Google Calendar Help
Good luck!

[rogueman123]

I am using microsoft exchange through my company email without any problems. Just make sure you get the correct ports for the email settings as well as the smtp address.

[victoria2657]

I read up on this and tried googlesync. For some reason it isn't compatable with Windows 7.

[SnoDrtRider]

It is easy to sync a non-exchange Outlook's calendar to the Droid. Just install Google Calendar Sync on your PC, and use it to keep Google Calendars sync'd with your Outlook (select the both directions option). You can set how often to have it do this, and it might take a while the first time. Then be sure your phone is set to sync with Google calendar.

This is how I am doing it and it is better than USB sync in Windows Mobile IMO.
If I add an appointment during the day to my calender it is already on my laptop in both Google canender and Outlook when I get home.
I am a small business sole proprietor and only employee.

The only thing I miss right now is the voice announcement of appointments through Bluetooth from the phone but that is minor and I'm sure it will come sooner or later either from Google or a third party app.

[must_i_register]

The Touchdown e-mail client ROCKS! Frig, why Motorola didn't pre-load this as their default mail client is unknown. This does more than I ever expected and the interface is slick.

It is up to $19.99 -- buy it before it goes up, it is worth it.

[victoria2657]

I tried the Google Calendar Sync. For some reason, it will not work with Windows 7. Anyone have any ideas??

[greendroid]

thanks for all the info

but...why simply cant i manually connect with usb and sync.

how do you all feel about personnal info on the "net"

i keep social numbers of family, passwords and other info i would like not to be "out there".

am i paranoid?

[LtKen]

am i paranoid?

Not paranoid at all. I'm military, so I know my social is everywhere, but I still refuse to send it to anyone over an open channel.

I'll give someone the keys to my car, but I wont leave the keys in the ignition for that person.