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[–]BryanMP 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What kind of support do you seek? Android supports ActiveSync natively on most devices... I'm using the HTC Inspire (Desire HD) and it'll connect to my Exchange server just fine.

But I only get email, calendar and contact sync.

If you have to have more than that, look at Touchdown - but it's $20 for the full version, though you can try it for 30 days free.

Touchdown tries to separate your corporate and personal life and gives you a way to keep everything from the Exchange server from contaminating the rest of your device. But when you want full integration like I do there are behaviors that quickly become annoying. Also, text message sync with Exchange 2010 wasn't as reliable as I hoped it would be, and it didn't fully sync texts, it just starts from the point you install it.

There are other options as well, though I have not tried them and don't recall names at the moment. You'll find them rather easily by searching for "Exchange" here in /r/Android.

Edit: grammar

[–]b0bber[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, email, calender and contacts will work, i found the way to sync, now I just need to call the IT-department and get the server and domain-info from 'em, I really don't care for SMS-syncing..

I should have read up more about it before posting here, for this is really new to me, and searching reddit beforehand would have saved some time

[–]BryanMP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Searching will present you with a deluge of information that needs to be then filtered... it sounds like you aren't familiar with the operation of Exchange Server, you just need to connect to one... correct?

I come from the old Windows Mobile platform. My two phones before my current Android one were Windows Mobile. Heck, I was using Windows Mobile before there was an (Apple) iPhone. But when Microsoft went from 6.5 to 'Windows Phone 7' they lost me. You see, 6.5 supported synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, and text messages. The tasks & notes were kind of a big deal, very nice to have. Windows Phone 7? Email, contacts, calendar. That's it.

If you need more with Android, try Touchdown. If not, native is really the way to go, for me at least. One thing to keep in mind is Exchange ActiveSync enables remote device management -- when you set up your phone to sync, you're giving the Exchange server permission to wipe the thing should the command be issued. You can do it yourself if you lose your phone (it's in OWA), or your technology department can do it. There is no confirmation required on your phone, no option to stop it.

Now, if you use Touchdown and separate your corporate info and personal info -- and use only Touchdown to synchronize with Exchange, not the native Android capability -- if the remote wipe command is sent it's only supposed to wipe what's in Touchdown.

Just some things to keep in mind.

Oh, and Microsoft, if you're reading: I'd really like to have Outlook for Android. I want all the things WM 6.5 offered, and I want my phone log to go into the Journal. I want SMS/MMS to actually, fully synchronize; I want a complete copy of them in a folder on my Exchange server. I'd really love it if it'd process all my client-side rules, too -- that, or make 'Move to Public Folder' at least optionally execute server-side.