Sync to corporate outlook

[joesheets]

My company currently supports BBerry for pushing outlook info (email, calander) to field force. I would like to use treo 700w. is there any way to "forward" Outlook info on a real time basis to the treo?

Thanks

[chris]

My company currently supports BBerry for pushing outlook info (email, calander) to field force. I would like to use treo 700w. is there any way to "forward" Outlook info on a real time basis to the treo?

You can set Outlook to auto-retrieve periodically at a time interval you set. From there, you can set alerts on the Treo to be notified of new messages. The Today screen also does a good job of letting you know how many unread messages you have.

-Chris

[Maddogmike]

Originally Posted by joesheets

My company currently supports BBerry for pushing outlook info (email, calander) to field force. I would like to use treo 700w. is there any way to "forward" Outlook info on a real time basis to the treo?

Thanks

I'm in the same position as you. If you search this site, you'll see info, from many months ago, about Palm + BB putting together a software "upgrade/fix/patch/whatever" for the Treo 650... I'm still waiting... in the meen time I can use my Treo to access the web and therefore, access our company's Outllook Web Access server and "pull" my company email. I'm sure I can use the included "Versamail" to pull my company email, like my POP3 email every 5 minutes, but I would then need to buy and add a VPN client, and even scarrier, configure it to our company's crap. I assume I could use the VPN info on my laptop... but you never know...

I am on Sprint, so I don't expect to be able to switch to the 700w until this summer, but if you find a fix, please let us know!!

Maddog

[treythompson]

Originally Posted by joesheets

My company currently supports BBerry for pushing outlook info (email, calander) to field force. I would like to use treo 700w. is there any way to "forward" Outlook info on a real time basis to the treo?

Thanks

Do you have Exchange Server? If so, it's all built in.

[Maddogmike]

Originally Posted by treythompson

Do you have Exchange Server? If so, it's all built in.

Yes, we do; Outlook 2K3...

I was talking to a programmer friend for our company and he said they could "turn on" POP3 email service on the Exchange server, which would work just fine for me "pulling" email every 5 min. or so...

He is going to run this up the flag pole at corporate as a supplement/alternative to our BB based enterprise. I think we have about 70 of our managers on BB's and a few of us funding our own Treo's in concert to a company provided cell phone (Verizon).

If things fall my way, I can turn in my company cell and have the company pick up at least part of my Treo expense... (a whopping $68.00 for voice and unlimited data )

Then I'll change gears even more if I trade my 650 in for a SPRINT 700w this summer!

Maddog

[treythompson]

Why wouldn't you use the Microsoft Exchange Activesync that's built into Exchange Server and your Palm device?