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When What To My Wondering Eyes Should Appear…

But 2 hefty-sized boxes, meaning Response Point was here.

And with a sign of his pad, and tip of his cap…

The cheerful man in brown disappeared in a snap.

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Enter The WiPhone

Lots of response to the issue of HTML e-mail only being supported via Exchange Activesync/Direct Push when paired with Exchange Server 2007.

I’ll admit right away that I was being a smartass when I suggested bouncing your e-mail out to a secondary POP account to get HTML e-mail on your handheld.

Right now, if you want to get HTML e-mail on a Windows Mobile 6 device OTA from your Exchange 2003 mailbox, you can always leverage IMAP to make it happen.

In other words, you’d set up your Exchange server and WM handset just like you were setting up to support The Almighty iPhone.

Which should explain the photochop above.

If you absolutely, positively, have to have HTML e-mail for your Exchange 2003/WM6 environment, then you can setup this insanely jackleg kind of configuration. Only for those who are not faint-of-heart. I’ll also admit this is a Mount Everest doc effort…simply because it’s there.

• Follow Q and Dr. Codec’s excellent IMAP setup for SBS with SSL article.
• Add a new e-mail account to your WM6 device.
• Name the account something like Outlook IMAP.
• Configure the account to use IMAP4, and use the public FQDN of your Exchange server as the Incoming mail server.
• Use DOMAIN/LogonID for User name. Be sure to check Save password.
• The Outgoing (SMTP) mail server value may be pre-configured by your mobile operator. Changing this value may stop your WM6 device from successfully sending e-mail, so document the supplied server name before making any modifications in case you need to reverse your changes.
• Set the Outgoing (SMTP) mail server value to the public FQDN of your Exchange server. Select both checkboxes. Under Advanced Server Settings, select both SSL checkboxes, and verify that the Network connection is set to the correct interface/service.
• There is no IMAP IDLE command supported by WM6 for push functionality, so set the desired Automatic Send/Receive interval, plus the amount of past messages you want to download.
• Under Advanced Settings, set your desired send/receive, roaming, and message deletion behavior.
• Set Message format as HTML (so you aren’t doing all this for nothing). Set your desired message download limit and attachment download behavior. 

Point of fact…

You could even leave e-mail coming in over Direct Push, if you want, and if you don’t mind the triple-threat memory/bandwidth/space hit. That way you’d get the best of both worlds.

Personally…

I’m not that desperate for HTML e-mail. 

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No-Commitment Price!

This is a must-read. Those crazy kids over at Engadget scored an interview with AT&T’s head of Mobility.

I’d go point-by-point over the things that had me growling with derision as I read it. But then I’d prolly throw my wireless mouse through the Funcave’s Amazing Technicolor Plasma.

Since Heroes comes on in 15 minutes, and Running Antelope has basically rearranged her life to start watching that show live in HD…

I’ll keep myself from pulling a Dr. David Banner at the DMV comedy routine after that dude claims…

Choice is the key to our business model

Especially right after he pedantically explains to the interviewer the exact, secret safe phrase that one must use to call off their sales pitbulls and order an unlocked phone. Which is, in case you missed it…

No-Commitment Price

But that interview does put me in mind of a lyric from one of my favorite Talking Heads songs…

Same As It Ever Was

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Got LemonJack?

You might, if you’ve got an O.G. style BlackJack.

The crazy kids over at Engadget exposed a semi-stealth recall of all BlackJacks manufactured between November 2006 and February 2007 because of an antenna failure.

You can get the full deets from the link above, but if I were a BlackJack owner, I’d be getting on the horn with AT&T and find out if my badass piece of pocket candy was actually a pitcher of lemonade waiting to happen, and get it replaced ASAP.

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Peachy Response Point Training

Now that I’ve successfully recovered from the feast-o-rama that was Thanksgiving here at the Funcave, here’s a recap of my latest Response Point encounter..

The day before Thanksgiving, yours truly made the 8 hour roundtrip to the swank-ola Microsoft offices in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta for a half-day Hands-on Lab delivered by Joe “Captain Unified” Schurman himself. Yes, that means I finally got my grubby mitts on some genuine Response Point hardware, at least for a few hours 

In all, it was well worth my time and fuel to attend. Simply getting the chance to compare the different OEM flavors of Response Point was a big plus.

Admittedly, the labs were super short, and barely scratched the surface of Response Point. But that’s only an issue if you are the type of person who simply does what’s laid out for you in the given labs and isn’t willing to explore any more on your own. Most of all, I was itching to dig into the administrative interface for Response Point. Thanks to the brevity of the provided labs, I had plenty of time to do some Official Funcave Dissecting on the Response Point software tools.

The real saving grace tho, was having someone like Joe, who is an MVP in Office Communications Server with loads of experience and a true breadth of knowledge of VoIP, delivering the training. He dropped several nuggets of info for anyone who was paying attention that were pure gold.

Best of all, thanks to the exposure to RP I had on Wednesday, I’m already mapping out system configurations for several RP prospects that I’ll be contacting this week.

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