No, there is no capability to sync public folders (or other users' folders). You can use a product like Chapura PocketMirror on the desktop to sync these folders, but on the device they will be combined with all the data in your own folders (categories can be used to filter them). Also, it would remove the ability to sync these items wirelessly with the server... which defeats the purpose of having this kind of device in the first place.
It sucks, and it has always been this way. You'd think that given the number of enterprise users of these things that MS would have developed a good solution for public folder access by now.
It sucks, and it has always been this way. You'd think that given the number of enterprise users of these things that MS would have developed a good solution for public folder access by now.
That is not 100% true, WM2003SE poutlook could see public folders, only WM2005 has lost that ability (registry hack anyone? )
I will have to do a screen grab with my old 6600 when I get back into town next week, but I am 100% that pOutlook could see my public folders (that is how I do my Spam filtering)
Are you guys talking about the kludge "Outlook PCS tool" that essentially copied contacts from the public folder to your own Calendar/Contacts/Mail folder periodically? Because I'm 99.9999% certain that Windows Mobile has never had native support to synchronize public folders, neither via desktop nor server sync.
I spent a lot of time researching this issue a couple of years ago (precisely in the WM2003SE time frame) and the only alternatives were:
1. Outlook Personal Contact Synchronizer (PCS), which as I said simply replicates public folder data into your normal Outlook stores. It also stopped working as of Office 2003.
2. Chapura PocketMirror, which replaces the Activesync conduit with its own, and is able to merge public folder data in with your own data on the device whilst keeping it separate on the desktop and server.
3. A now unsupported product called Pocket Lookout which gave you a one-way sync'ed (i.e. read only on the PPC) database of your public folder contents.
4. Various other 3rd party hacks.
To my knowledge there has never been any built-in method to access your public folders in the folder tree of Pocket Outlook.
If you have evidence to the contrary (maybe you can find info via a google search?) then please let me know! I think it's important we get to the bottom of this and set the record straight so that future users searching the site will have accurate info.
Thanks,
Dan
P.S. Check out this blog posting--it was posted prior to the release of Windows Mobile 5:
I have to bysian (sp) spam folders, called #SPAM and #NOSPAM. With WM2003SE I could see and move spam into those folders with pOutlook. WIth WM5, I cannot see them so I cannot do that....
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