I agree. Wireless Sync has been part of the unlimited plan for a long time. Sure, there are plenty of places that will do the same thing, for a charge. Calendar, contacts and e-mail; Thats why I got a smart phone to begin with! Do you think that Verizon will give the customers a discount when it is gone? LOL

My understanding, from back when they announced it, that there was a replacement. I'll look into it at work, if I can.

I use Skydeck on my Storm, which backs up my contacts and messaging each day, and is free. There ARE a lot of applications out there, and much of them ARE free. You just have to look for them.

I spoke to several verizon reps in the last few days. They told me that there is no replacement for wireless sync. If you know of a good replacement that someone is using, please post it! I need calendar, contacts and e-mail right on my phone! I own a small business, so we don't have an exchange server.

you can always use a hosted exchange account or use the cable to sync.

"you can always use a hosted exchange account or use the cable to sync."


If I could use an exchange server - sorry if we're not talking the same thing here, I'm not an IT person - I would. I cannot. That's why I need Wireless Sync, or an equivalent replacement. As for using the cable to sync - how is that going to help me get my email on my phone when I'm outside the office? For some small businesses Wireless Sync has been a lifesaver. If there is a comparable 3rd party app that is available - something that will forward email, sync contacts and calendar, etc - please let me know. Otherwise I will have to forward my email to a Gmail account, which means I will be stuck syncing contacts and calendar with a cable - exactly what I DO...
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If you have a 3rd party provider hosting an exchange account for you, then you can set up active sync to sync wirelessly which is better than wireless sync because you will not need to have pc monitor running all the time on your laptop.

Low tech solution: cable sync using active sync or windows mobile device center your calendar and contacts while setting up email in pocket outlook. It works, cable charges phone.

There is a couple of options that are available. To get your email wireless you can use pocket outlook on your device if you use a windows mobile device. If you use Palm....lol you can use versamail. On windows mobile devices you don't have to download anything it already comes reinstalled on the device. With palm you have to download the versamail application. This will take care of your email. You do get a cheaper data package. Wirelesssync requires the $44.99 data package and these other options only require the $29.99 unlimited data package. As far as your other PIM data, you can sync with your cable....either active sync or palm desktop manager. Hope this helps 🙂

Ask your IT person why they don't have an Exchange email server! I have clients with five users who have their own Small Business Server, which includes Exhange.

Gotta love ActiveSync over the air!

Gregg

This turned into such a long thread that the original posts and responses have become confusing. We DO have a Exchange Server. There are other issues that I outlined in an earlier post. Trust me, I'm not an IT person, but I'm not completely ignorant about tech. We have explored this problem in depth.

I do IT for a living and there really isn't a whole lot to do to get OWA/OMA/ActiveSync/RPC over HTTPS working on Exchange 2003 or higher.

Every client of mine with Exchange 2003 or higher has it working.

Can you give me link to the earlier posts where you outline the problems? I am curious...good thing I'm not cat.

Gregg

Never mind...just found it and will respond to it.

If you are on a $44.99 data plan, you should be able to change to the $29.99 Email and Web plan. This will save you $15 monthly.

Gladly. I work in a small office. Out of a total staff of 20, two of us use smart phones. I have VZW, the other guy has ATT - they have a product comparable to Wireless Sync.

We do have our own MS Exchange Server, but only 1. Because MS Exchange does not run ideally on 1 server - I believe it's designed for 2 - we are told we can't install the necessary security certificate that would allow a smart phone to get email directly from our server. Apparently we tried and it caused too much conflict with items more necessary for daily business operations. Because of the expense required to add an additional server, set up licensing, etc., management can't justify doing this for 2 smartphone users.

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I'd say before it's all said and done there will be a comparable solution.

I can say this. I have my own Exchange server here at work that I use for my email. I just use it personally and set it up myself. It's running on one server with Windows Server 2003. I installed the security certificate and have my phone working with activesync wirelessly and it works awesome. It's simple to do. I'm not sure why they can't get that setup to work for you. I even installed the security certificate after the fact. This same server also does file storage for me as well as website hosting. It's just a box I setup all myself.

vzwinagent: Not to beat the proverbial dead horse, but as I mentioned in my email; it won't work on the setup at our office because of conflicts with systems that are crucial to our daily operations. I understand it's not rocket science - there are other factors that have to be considered.

Hopefully there will be a replacement announced.

You might also look at a hosted exchange solution or the verizon in house exchange option. Once you use the activesync you'll love it. Wirelesssync was always clunky to me and never gave me what I wanted.

What other factors? Neither I nor any of the 50 or so techs that I know have yet to run into anything that stops it from being set up.

A public cert makes it really easy and a cheap GoDaddy Turbo SSL cert works perfectly. Even a self-signed cert from the server works.

If you (God forbid) run a public web site on your Exchange server and it uses port 443, get a real firewall that can handle multiple IP addresses on one WAN interface, then set up the Exchange server to use a secondary IP and let the web stuff come into the other IP. Same goes for a VPN that uses SSL.

I question your IT person's knowledge because you mentioned that you were told that it needs two servers. Whoever told you that has very little knowledge of Exchange.

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I've seen many companies move to having Gmail host their domain email.

I've seen a number of "server-free" companies turn to an old trick to get themselves off the old $44.99 VZEmail plan with Wireless Sync and their old WinMo device and onto a Blackberry with the $29.99 Email & Web plans to save money.

After moving to Blackberry, they create a Gmail account and have their work email forwarded to that account. They force the Gmail account to include a "Reply To" field that indicates their work email address instead of their work address. Most recipients shouldn't notice the difference.

On my Blackberry, I can easily set that up through my account at the Blackberry BIS, which is at blackberry.com/go/vzw.

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Let me get this straight, you have a Microsoft Exchange Server that will NOT support Outlook Web Access?

Can any of your workers access their company from a personal computer while at home? If so, how is this done?

I am an IT tech and I can guarantee you that the information regarding Exchange is COMPLETELY WRONG.

It only requires one server and runs quite nicely on it. It **can** be set up with two servers running Exchange, but you are talking about clustering, which is typically only seen in large companies. I have single-server Exchange setups at most of my clients.

A cert is easy to set up and does NOT interfere if done properly.

If you have Exchange 2003 or higher, do you folks use Outlook Web Access or RPC over HTTPS for direct Outlook connections? If not, then you need a new IT person.

Agreed. I have my own server and have this setup which I did myself.

A clarification regarding using two Exchange two servers:

There are several scenarios. One can have a front-end/back-end setup with two servers, clustering of two servers for replication, or load-sharing with two servers. Barring those needs, ONE server works perfectly.

Gregg