question about microsoft exchange

[jj1122]

Ive got a quick question about using outlook on my bionic. Ive looked all over the verizon website, and its not clear to me if there is an additional charge for using an exchange account. If I setup an outlook exchange account on my bionic, will I get an additional monthly charge on my bill?

 

[Joe92GT]

Not that I can see. The extra charge was for BB and their rip off..... er I mean corporate data plan.

When I transferred to the bionic, it kept that same plan, so I think they got 15 dollars extra a month out of me for unlimited data. Any change and I would have had to go to tiered data.

If you have the 30 dollar a month unlimited data plan, I can not see why exchange would be an extra charge on android.

 

[Aioka]

I only have the $30 unlimited plan and ive had my exchange on my phones for a few years now with no issues. Just dont tell them you have it on there.

 

[p08757]

Yup! Don't let them talk you into the "Corporate" plan @ $44.99. You don't need it.

One of the reasions I dropped my old Storm1 for the OG Droid.

 

[jj1122]

Thanks for the replies, but as it turns out, it looks like I wont be able to do that. my company wont support it, but the best the IT guy can do is forward eveything to a gmail account and Ill sync that to the phone We used to be able to do it, but IT changed something 2 or 3 years ago on the exchange server and it wont work now! I guess its not the phones fault, but its frustrating have a phone with these capabilities and not being able to use the. I can get the email forwarded, but now Im scratching my head on how to sysn my outlook calender with my bionic.

 

[mbentley3]

Thanks for the replies, but as it turns out, it looks like I wont be able to do that. my company wont support it, but the best the IT guy can do is forward eveything to a gmail account and Ill sync that to the phone We used to be able to do it, but IT changed something 2 or 3 years ago on the exchange server and it wont work now! I guess its not the phones fault, but its frustrating have a phone with these capabilities and not being able to use the. I can get the email forwarded, but now Im scratching my head on how to sysn my outlook calender with my bionic.

What about using the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook?

 

[jj1122]

What about using the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook?

will that work for outlook exchange? I thought that was only for someone running "local" outlook as a POP3 account.

 

[Aioka]

Thanks for the replies, but as it turns out, it looks like I wont be able to do that. my company wont support it, but the best the IT guy can do is forward eveything to a gmail account and Ill sync that to the phone We used to be able to do it, but IT changed something 2 or 3 years ago on the exchange server and it wont work now! I guess its not the phones fault, but its frustrating have a phone with these capabilities and not being able to use the. I can get the email forwarded, but now Im scratching my head on how to sysn my outlook calender with my bionic.

Wow.. talk about bad security lol. Forwarding company email to an offsite server.. usually grounds for firing at most companies.

More than likely they do not have checked in the Exchange AS to 'allow non-provision able devices' in their corporate policy. With that not checked if they have one of the EAS policies in place that android doesn’t support the phone won’t be able to sync to it. My guess is they have require Device/SD card encryption checked in the password area which MOST android phones do not support. If they were to uncheck those or just put a check in 'Allow provision able devices' your phone would more than likely work on it, which is WAY better then shipping company email off to another companies mailbox/equipment as well as it would still allow for Secure PIN and remote wipe!

 

[jj1122]

Wow.. talk about bad security lol. Forwarding company email to an offsite server.. usually grounds for firing at most companies.

More than likely they do not have checked in the Exchange AS to 'allow non-provision able devices' in their corporate policy. With that not checked if they have one of the EAS policies in place that android doesn?t support the phone won?t be able to sync to it. My guess is they have require Device/SD card encryption checked in the password area which MOST android phones do not support. If they were to uncheck those or just put a check in 'Allow provision able devices' your phone would more than likely work on it, which is WAY better then shipping company email off to another companies mailbox/equipment as well as it would still allow for Secure PIN and remote wipe!

I totally agree. I talked with the IT guy and that is the case. They are not so worried about what is getting out, its that they dont want anything malicious coming in.

He is forwarding my email and Ive got that synced to a google account, so at least Im getting my email on the phone. I did the google apps migration for my calender and that worked great to get my outlook calender to google and now its on my phone. Now I just need something to make my outlook calender and google talk (sync) every now and then?

 

[Joe92GT]

I love being my own IT guy, it makes phone integration much easier. Exchange active sync is a breeze to set up compared to BES for blackberry.

I think any new exchange set ups will be all android since blackberry's software is expensive to run,and license. But existing set ups will stay with BB since they already own the licenses and software.

 

[Aioka]

Exchange active sync is a breeze to set up compared to BES for blackberry.

God this is the truth.. I just killed off our last Blackberry here the other day and will be happy to destory the BES images here in a few days. Working on BES makes me want to punch a box of babies.

 

[jj1122]

Well, Ive got it all working. Not the best solution, but the google calender sync works. If anyone else needs to do this, use the link below. Its syncing my outlook calender nicely with a google account.

Getting started with Google Calendar Sync - Google Calendar Help