exchange sync

[zachs]

I have been using Blackberries for a long time and love them. However, this droid has gotten me very curious about switching. One item that I must have or it is a definite deal breaker is over the air syncing with my exchange server.

Will the Droid sync email, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc with an exchange 2007 server without any third party add on? This is the one item that would be a deal breaker for me.

 

[Ukyo]

I have been using Blackberries for a long time and love them. However, this droid has gotten me very curious about switching. One item that I must have or it is a definite deal breaker is over the air syncing with my exchange server.

Will the Droid sync email, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc with an exchange 2007 server without any third party add on? This is the one item that would be a deal breaker for me.

I came from a Storm with BES connected to my work... luckily for me, my work has a beta Activesync and currently only 2.0 supposedly supports exchange natively without Activesync. Connected through Activesync through the Hero, I am unable to send out emails from my exchange account for some reason or another. The 3rd party addon, Touchdown, works great... though it's $10 but at the very least, I can send emails out...

 

[trabbic]

I have been using Blackberries for a long time and love them. However, this droid has gotten me very curious about switching. One item that I must have or it is a definite deal breaker is over the air syncing with my exchange server.

Will the Droid sync email, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc with an exchange 2007 server without any third party add on? This is the one item that would be a deal breaker for me.

Yes.

I tested it on two exchange boxes, using the SDK for Android 2.0.

It will actually sync with multiple exchange boxes at once, which is pretty nice if you need that.

 

[Mitch R.]

And it syncs Exchange calendar, contacts, tasks, as well?

 

[trabbic]

And it syncs Exchange calendar, contacts, tasks, as well?

It does not sync tasks. But Calendar and Contacts work fine.

 

[zachs]

Ok. Sounds good. I just might have to get one to try as soon as possible. If I can get native support to my exchange server I can try it. tasks are not too important, although it would really be nice. Calendar, Contacts and email are 100% required or I will not even consider the device. As for any third party app, negative as well. There are plenty of good solid devices that do not require a third party app to sync emails, etc.

Is the Droid really going to be as great as it is being made out to be? The original storm had the same hype and we all know what happened to it. Anyways, I think I will give it a try. Whats the worst that happens, I don't like it and return it within 30 days.

 

[dpeters11]

Does it work with Exchange security policies? I'm hearing reports it doesn't. We require remote wipe, password lockouts on idle and a minimum password level.

 

[tdawgui]

So any positive information on how the Droid works with Exchange??? This is the one key issue for me.

EDIT: So i guess in a round about way this link shows it will work with exchange: http://www.gearlog.com/2009/11/personal_droid_data_will_cost.php

We'll learn more when I get the phone on Friday

 

[tdawgui]

I came from a Storm with BES connected to my work... luckily for me, my work has a beta Activesync and currently only 2.0 supposedly supports exchange natively without Activesync. Connected through Activesync through the Hero, I am unable to send out emails from my exchange account for some reason or another. The 3rd party addon, Touchdown, works great... though it's $10 but at the very least, I can send emails out...

Does anyone know if:

1. Touchdown is necessary to get sync with Exchange on the Droid... if not, can sync be done with a Droid straight out of the box?

2. If it is necessary, is Touchdown compatible with Android 2.0?

 

[Mitch R.]

Also wondering if you can accept meeting requests and have them added to your exchange calendar. This is one feature I really like about the Blackberry.

 

[dallas_tx]

droid working with exchange is hit or miss

Thought I would reply to this as I just picked up a droid yesterday (it's been a sweet-and-sour relationship so far). Basically if you look here, you'll see that the exchange server needs to be either 2003 WITH SP2, or exchange 2007.

Unfortunately for me, my company's is apparently not one of these versions, and I am unable to sync (I get an authentication error when connecting). You can see this issue has been reported many times over at the droid forums here.

Hopefully they will address this, but who knows if/when that will be.

 

[austink]

I found the exchange email almost unworkable, so I downloaded Touchdown and for $10, it works like a charm.

The built in exchange box has many limitations, most importantly for me was the inability to file messages in folders. (there is another thread that lists all the problems). I also was never able to get calendar to sync, even though contacts and email worked fine.

I installed Touchdown to regain the ability to file emails to folders, and I haven't encountered any real downside yet. The integration of contacts is not great, but you could have the built in exchange running together with Touchdown and only use Touchdown for the email and let the built in sync handle the contacts.

 

[czm2000]

I'm using it for 2 Echange accounts and it works great. Very smooth and reliable. My job is Internet so I can't miss an email. It's proven very reliable.

The only thing it doesn't sync is Tasks, and you can't move an email into another folder yet (bummer). But I heard both of those features are coming. At the break neck speed at which Google is develping and how important I feel they are holding the luanch and success of the Droid, it'll be real soon with a fix for those. My opinion of course.

I like how it seperates all the email accounts including my 2 exchange accounts into different email boxes, but that has the option to view them in 1 combined email box too. (Gmail is the only exception to that, it has it's own inbox, and can't be combined).

 

[Droid corp user]

We are running MS Exchange 2003 SP1. Connecting to Exchange from the Droid was fairly seemless. Email and Contact syncing seems to work very smoothly. However, Calendar syncing does not work. I was able to do an initial manual refresh which loaded my calendar appointments at that moment, but that is it. The calendar does not sync and a "refresh" does nothing further.

 

[wademac#AC]

Just got synced up on my corporate exchange server (Exchange SP 2) which was quite painless....email, contacts, and calendar sync great...

only issue I am having is that I cannot respond to a meeting request (accept/tentative/decline)....not sure if this is a known issue or if I need to change a setting....

 

[SeeDee]

any exchange 2003 admins around? Doesnt seem like it's an issue with the droid as it is with the permissions given. I can sync my administrator account with no issues. If I try any of my users i get the black triangle. Trying to locate the log files to see what exactly the error is.

 

[budwizer]

Never had to use Touchdown when I had my Droid syncing to my hosted Exchange account. Straight out of the box I was up and running. Not even sure what Touchdown is (Google here I come!).

Not sure about meeting requests, I would imagine they should work. On a related note my wife's 1st edition Storm won't allow accepting meeting requests via their BES for some reason.

 

[mdlissner]

Hi folks. New around around here. Wondering if the Droid has the following features from my BlackBerry either with out without the Touchdown add on.

- Can I go to my contacts and start typing a name of a person in my company and do an LDAP lookup like I can on a BlackBerry?

- Can I create a meeting and have it set up with calendar invites to attendees as the BlackBerry can do?

- Does the Droid handle dialing of phone number extensions as the BlackBerry does?

Trying to make a decision between the Storm2 and a Droid for just after the first of the year.

My important needs are in order:

- Phone - needs to be a good mobile phone able to handle close to 3000 contacts many with extensions and multiple phone numbers.

- Email - Have three accounts one BES and two BIS now (University of Phoenix, Comcast)

- Messaging - Text, light user of BBM right now

- Web

- GPS Navigation

- Very little usage as a game or media player

 

[bbconvert]

Exchange sync

Does anyone know if:

1. Touchdown is necessary to get sync with Exchange on the Droid... if not, can sync be done with a Droid straight out of the box?

2. If it is necessary, is Touchdown compatible with Android 2.0?

I don't believe you can sync to exchange out of the box if your company has IT policies that require locking the phone or minimum pword reqs. However, apparently there is an "Exchange for Android 2.0" app. According to the Touchdown website (NitroDesk Inc. - Convergence Redefined).

I'm probably going to pick up a Droid tomorrow to replace my 8330. How does the Touchdown app compare to the BB activesync apps such as AstraSync?

 

[dprk]

Does it work with Exchange security policies? I'm hearing reports it doesn't. We require remote wipe, password lockouts on idle and a minimum password level.

Not yet. Below link describes the issue.

Issue 4475 - android - Support for ActiveSync provisioning protocol - Project Hosting on Google Code