Preparing the Mobile Device

In order to prepare your mobile device for Active Server Synchronization you have to check if your mobile device operating system is able to use this feature. Generally all mobile devices running Windows Pocket PC Edition 2003 or Windows Pocket PC Mobile 2003 are prepared to work properly. In addition other devices may run without any problems if they run a version of Microsoft Active Sync 3.7.1 or higher. The download can be found at :

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/activesync37.mspx

The minimum desktop computer requirements for Active Sync 3.7.1 are:

These resources could be conferencing rooms, cars, projector, etc. – in general nearly everything that is being used by more than one employee during working days.

With an Exchange / Outlook infrastructure in your company there are various ways to make this work. Within this article we will have a close look at each possibility. We will not just talk of how to configure it, in addition, we will discuss the pros and cons of these implementation tasks.

On April 13, Microsoft released an update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that addresses performance problems with large mailboxes. The Microsoft article "Description of the update for Outlook 2007: April 13, 2007" describes what the patch fixes. I regularly use three different Outlook 2007 profiles against three different Exchange Server organizations, and I've occasionally noticed poor performance on one particular server. I eagerly installed the patch and found that, as promised, it helped improve the performance of Outlook 2007 on that server. However, I decided to experiment a bit and found an even more dramatic improvement from doing something that I'd never done before: I turned off Cached Exchange Mode.

Microsoft Office OneNote is a digital notebook where you can easily store your unstructured data. It's great for writing notes during a meeting or for storing research data. You can think of OneNote like one of your old paper notebooks that has colored tabs to help group your notes. In OneNote, these tabs are called sections; they can include multiple pages and store data such as pictures, text, and so forth. OneNote 2003 SP1 introduced enhanced integration with Outlook, and this integration has been improved in OneNote 2007. Let's take a look at how you can share your Outlook information with OneNote.

You can copy content such as meeting information and email messages from Outlook 2003 SP1 and Outlook 2007 to OneNote. However, during OneNote setup, make sure you install the Outlook Integration add-on; if you don't, the OneNote buttons won't appear in Outlook. I made this mistake when I clicked through the Microsoft Office 2007 system setup and was left wondering where the buttons were...