Outlook 2007 - Business Contact Manager - Sync

[Guest]

I've been reading a lot of the posts about sync problems with BCM and Smart
Phones. I'm a little unsure if these problems have been resolved with 2007.
Based on my experience, I think not.

I'm new to BCM and am just evaluating it. Some things look nice, but one
thing will stop me dead and cause me to drop it right away -- if I can not
sync BCM contacts with my Smart phone.

Information and contact is absolutely vital in business, and to have a CRM
and not be able to take those contacts on the road with your Smart phone is,
well, brain dead.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to sync BCM with Smart phone? If not,
I'm dropping BCM really quick and not proceeding with any further eval.

 

[Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT]]

You can find answer to your question and other helpful information on BCM
team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm
Look for FAQ document.

 

[mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com]

Norm,

It depends upon EXACTLY what you mean by "Smartphone."

MS Windows Mobile 5.0 has 2 editions: The full Pocket PC Phone edition
(touchscreen) and the Smartphone edition (non touchscreen). If your smart
device hardware is running the WM 5 Pocket PC edition you are in luck and BCM
has conduits available for your device to synch with. If your smart device
hardware is running the WM 5 Smartphone edition you cannot sych with BCM
without using a 3rd party tool from Chapura called Pocket Mirror Professional
for Windows Mobile. Go to www.chapura.com to learn more.

An additional note to avoid confusion: With their newest upcoming WM 6
release, MS is renaming the editions to WM Professional (for Pocket PC Phones)
, WM Standard (for Smartphones), and WM Classic (for non phone PDAs). This
will hopefully reduce confusion between what a specific hardware device is
referred to and the software it runs on.

Hope this helps.

-THP