My company provides everyone with a blackberry and this is the only phone they support (email system is Outlook). I'd like to use my Desire. Is there a way I can do it myself?
My company provides everyone with a blackberry and this is the only phone they support (email system is Outlook). I'd like to use my Desire. Is there a way I can do it myself?
If they support ActiveSync and they make it available to you then yes.http://www.htc.com/europe/howto.aspx?id=690&type=1&p_id=312
what do u mean 'make it available'?
i guess they control and wont tell me the passwords etc, so if they dont want me to use another fone then they wont set it up for me
You don't know the password to your own email account? I guess if you don't know that then you're not going to get very far then.
I don't think he means the email account password, I think he means the computer's administrator password. without it, if activesync is not already set up, then he's not going to get it working.
You've lost me. Why would he need the admin password? You're not setting up anything on your local machine you're just accessing the Exchange server directly. To set up the account on your phone you need:-
email address
server address
domain
username
password
not if exchange push is not enabled for him as a user it wont.
anyway blackberries pwn anything else out of the water for terms of corporate email and calender synchronisation couple that with a silly high battery life.
desire is not really a good corporate device, its a gizmo. its not efficient at dealing with heavy loaded email tasks imo
this is as a desire owner with a blackberry torch and 9700 in my possession.
love my desire best but i would never use one for work. ever
Get your IT dept to send you the link for exchange that they use then it's easy, just bookmark the link on your desire. Works a treat for me. Incidentally my IT dept said it was not possible for my mobile but sent me the link for home pc access but it works as above no problem Hope that helps.
Blackberry is a great device. Like Rasta said, nothing beats it on a corporate level.
I loved my BB.
From a consumer angle though, I love my desire much more.
A small misconception with the word "support" is that some think that when their company says they only support one particular product it means that this is the only product which will work. Nonsense! It just means they will only provide help and guidance on that product. Where I work the company only supports Windows XP on client machines (bizarre - we're an IT training company) but all of us trainers have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 on our laptops, and they still work fine & connect to all of our corporate systems perfectly. Our IT support people complain that if we have problems they won't be able to help us, but that's a tad silly as we teach the systems ourselves so it's unlikely
Bottomline: fanboys are idiots, and forcing a brand on people is stupid as well. BB is way overused by "professionals" why don't even need such a phone or don't even use a quarter of its abilities. It's a status symbol, just like Macs are for iTards.
To be honest Activesync has caught up....there isn't anything a BB can do now that another handset with activesync can't and at less cost.
Technically bes needs no additional hardware either. You already have an exchange server...
At home I have a VMWare domain controller and VMWare citrix farm running in an old p4 desktop.
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