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Outlook 2003 SMS Add-in

Not sure if any of you have seen this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b4-986e-4afb-ab21-3af2be63508b&displaylang=en
I cant get it working ???

CarlnAdele said:
Not sure if any of you have seen this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b4-986e-4afb-ab21-3af2be63508b&displaylang=en
I cant get it working ???
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I haven't tried that one - I may give it a shot later. You might want to try these:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14070
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14071
Edit: Tried the Microsoft one but it's for Outlook 2003 and I have Outlook 2002 installed.

I cant see the use of it with a WM2003 PE device like the MDAII/XDA2
IF you sync Pocket Outlook you allready get the SMS folders available on your PC Outlook?

my outlook sure dont have sms on the pc

i to installed it and it did not appear, however, once it did pop up but the next time i loaded outlook it vanished again, i guess its shy...

i think this outlook add in is for mobile phones not pocket pc phone ed. hopefully ms comes out with a ppc pe version of this.

An alternative is Jeyo Mobile Extender.

Transfer contacts from Nokia 6600 to MDA II(Sorry if it has been answered earlier)

Hi,
Need to know as to how to transfer contacts from my Nokia 6600 to MDA II. I tried all Forums but couldn't find a solution for the same. Should we do it manually or do we have a tool to do the same.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Crownu

sync both with outlook would prob work

I used PC Suite for Nokia 6600 to Sync it with Outlook, and the end result was disgusting all i got was my Outlook contacts getting added to my Nokia I had to manually delete them all over again. I repeat, Is there a way to transfer my Phone contacts from Nokia 6600 to my MDA II.

I did this some few years back and cannot remember exactly and I can't re-try it now.
From my memory in my head, Sync the Nokia with PC (not outlook, just normal sync) is step 1, and I think you search the Nokia directories, you should able to see your contacts are all in *.VCF format or somehow it could be exported to *.vcf format.
Copy all this *.vcf files to your hardisk.
You can either double click on this *.vcf files one by one in
1. PC and it goes to your outlook which you can sync with PPC later or
2. PPC and it goes to Contact.
Hope my memory is still correct. Good Luck.
Something which I never tried, Infra-red or Bluetooth the 2 device directly?

As Rudegar suggested, did some R&D and was finally able to transfer them All.....Yippeeeeeeeeee > I had a Question here, which takes precedence when we Sync up the MDA, the Outlook contacts or the Phone contacts. For e.g., I delete a contact from my Phone and do a Sync, will it get deleted from Outlook or will be re-instated from Outlook????? or do we have a setting wherein we can choose what to do???? Any thoughts folks.....

crownu said:
As Rudegar suggested, did some R&D and was finally able to transfer them All.....Yippeeeeeeeeee > I had a Question here, which takes precedence when we Sync up the MDA, the Outlook contacts or the Phone contacts. For e.g., I delete a contact from my Phone and do a Sync, will it get deleted from Outlook or will be re-instated from Outlook????? or do we have a setting wherein we can choose what to do???? Any thoughts folks.....
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For PPC Phone, which Contact to keep can be set on both PPC & PC. Make sure both side is the same. Else both will get confused.

Migrating from WM6 to Symbian...

I'm thinking of trying symbian platform.. Nokia E61i to be specific. Can anyone suggest any painfree way to transfer all my PIM data to the Nokia?
Thanks..

J_Kirk said:
I'm thinking of trying symbian platform.. Nokia E61i to be specific. Can anyone suggest any painfree way to transfer all my PIM data to the Nokia?
Thanks..
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transfer from what?
btw my bet would be maybe through outlook but i'm not sure if symbian supports that

Nokia!?!??

Loll.. well some newer Nokia models have very good .. almost pda like features. Plus they are excellent in multimedia, fast firmware, and nokia e61i is a blackberry-ish device.But the biggest hurdle is all my contacts, appointments, tasks, etc. etc... meaning, how to transfer them from my jamin to a symbian device?

I had a e61 before my i780 - if you use Outlook, forget it - it will drive you nuts - symbian doesn't synch things like categories and is much poorer for PIM.
Yes it will synch with outlook but in a crippled manner.

Use Outlook 2003
Simply sync with Outlook 2003 and then use the Nokia PC Suit to sync again with your symbian. Alternatively you can use Yahoo GO to sync online. Use Yahoo GO on your symbian too...
I Love Symbian Phones....

My Sony Ericsson P990 sync'd with Outlook way quicker and more reliably than any WM device I have used. Sony Ericsson's equivalent to activesync is also much better than Activesync in my opinion because you can turn it off when not using it.

mike freegan said:
My Sony Ericsson P990 sync'd with Outlook way quicker and more reliably than any WM device I have used. Sony Ericsson's equivalent to activesync is also much better than Activesync in my opinion because you can turn it off when not using it.
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My experience as well. I have never gotten even one duplicate entry using SE's PC Suite. And you can check the report to see exactly what was synced. The only thing missing is the ability to sync notes with jotted drawings.

Thanks a lot for all the help guys.. so synching with outlook would take care of contacts, tasks and appointments?? What about smses.. ? I don't think outlook would do that, would it?

J_Kirk said:
Thanks a lot for all the help guys.. so synching with outlook would take care of contacts, tasks and appointments?? What about smses.. ? I don't think outlook would do that, would it?
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I don't think there's an option for synching SMS; wish there was, I've got a few thousand on my Dual.

I was just searching for something to transfer SMS from WM to Nokia and I found this:
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/PC-and-Mac-Software/Migrating-from-Windows-Mobile-to-Nokia/td-p/747754
For exporting the messages to csv, I used the freeware PIM Backup (http://www.dotfred.net/). This software archives your messages (and lots of other stuff) to a PIB-file on the mobile device. I copied the file to my PC, renamed to .zip and unpacked the contained files. One of them is called msgs_*.csm - this is a csv-file that holds all the messages of the WinMo device. Problem is: the format is totally different from what PC suite expects. Here is a litte Perl-script that does the conversion:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Encode qw/encode decode/;
@na=(0,"Inbox","Outbox","SentItems","DeletedItems","Drafts");
read STDIN, $i, 2;
while (read(STDIN, $i, 4096)) {$s.=decode("UCS-2LE", $i);}
@a=split(/(?<=\")\r\n/,$s);
@idx=();$i=0;
for(split(/;/,shift(@a))) { $idx{$_}=$i++;}
for (@a) {
$_ or next;
@b=split /(?<!\\);/;
$b[$idx{"Account"}] ne '"SMS"' and next;
($f=$b[$idx{"Folder"}])=~s/^\"\\\\%MDF(\d)\"$/$1/;
($sa=$b[$idx{"Sender Address"}])=~s/^.*?<?([\+0-9]+)>?.*$/"$1"/;
$rc='"'.(split(/\\;/,$b[$idx{"Recipients"}]))[2].'"';
@t=split(/,/,$b[$idx{"Modify Time"}]);
($su=encode("UTF-8", $b[$idx{"Subject"}]))=~s/\r?\n/ /g;
$s="sms;".(($f==1||$f==4)?"deliver":"submit").";".(($f==1||$f==4)?"$sa;\"\"":"\"\";$rc").
";\"\";\"$t[0].$t[1].$t[2] $t[3]:$t[4]\";\"\";$su\r\n";
if (!fileno("FD$f")) {open "FD$f",">",$na[$f].".csv";}
syswrite "FD$f", $s, length($s);
I havent tried it as i dont know how to use pearl script....
Can any one here explain in detail about how to use it.....
It might be helpful to many.......

Sync Issue

Hi guys,
Ive been using HTC for 8 months now and I did not had any problems in synchronization w/ the PC.
I just changed my operating system to Vista and right now, I can't sycn contacts calendars and emails.
Help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Vista uses different sync software to xp
Look here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-center-download.mspx
Good luck

Ive read that active sync cannot sycnhronize windows 6.5. do you have any other tool to synchronize contacts?

jhuntarun said:
Ive read that active sync cannot sycnhronize windows 6.5. do you have any other tool to synchronize contacts?
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I have synced 6.5 when I flashed back to the stock rom when I sold on my wizard yesterday

jhuntarun said:
Ive read that active sync cannot sycnhronize windows 6.5. do you have any other tool to synchronize contacts?
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Active Sync and WMDC both can sync WM 6.5.
If your having issues try Microsoft MyPhone.
It stores your stuff online and you can sync up anytime.

Sync Outlook and MyPhone with WM6.5

Hi all,
Is there any way to sync a WM6.5 device after HR (or new Device) with outlook and MyPhone without a mess ?
All of my appointments and contents get duplicated.

liamR said:
Hi all,
Is there any way to sync a WM6.5 device after HR (or new Device) with outlook and MyPhone without a mess ?
All of my appointments and contents get duplicated.
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Why would you wanted to do that?? if you have all you PIM on Outlook you dont need MyPhone or do I see that not right

He is clear in what He asks and clear in what He offers. The choice is up to

I use outlook to sync all my devices (I have Nokia and SE as well) and I use MyPhone to sync and backup my HD2 OTG it's very comfortable...