So I’ve been trying to get my new Audiovox SMT 5600 working with ActiveSync. Enabling a synchronization with the desktop was super easy. Really. Getting it to work with Exchange has been less so.
Since he has the same phone, I asked Scoble for some insight. Despite an amusing interlude where he thought I worked at Microsoft and tried to point me to some intranet sites, it wasn’t terribly useful. Scratch that. It wasn’t useful at all. It was entertaining. So I Googled and I Googled and I finally Googled some more. Nothing.
I turned up the occasional link that had me thinking that I was getting there, but still no luck. Finally I found something. This post was terribly helpful. Initially, I followed the instructions to the letter. But when I delved into the registry key, I found that I already had an entry there. So rather than using the new virtual directory I had just created, I used the one referenced in that key (exchange-oma).
In the end, really the only thing that I did was to turn off anonymous access, turn on integrated Windows authentication and basic authentication (one was off, I don’t recall which) and add the computer’s external IP address to the list of allowed connections. The checkbox to require SSL was already off, but that may not be the default installation status since I had been mucking about so much.
I’m not strictly sure if the external IP address was required, but the traffic hitting that virtual directory will be addressed to the external address (no address translation on those services), so it’s possible that it’s needed. In any case, it is working at the moment, so I’m not going to complain.
I have not yet been able to get SSL to work. I suspect this is because I’m using an SBS 2003 server which installed its own certificate for the internal server name, and I’m not connecting to that name. I’ve also had trouble installing certificate services on this machine, or else I’d issue a new one. And I’m too cheap to actually buy one. Mostly because the name will likely change in the near future, as this is being set up a bit haphazardly at the moment, just to see if things will work. Once things settle down a bit and we’re sure of how it will work, that may become an option.
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5 responses to “Exchange 2003 ActiveSync”
Actually, as mentioned here, DisableCertChk would not work for me with SBS 2003. As found later in the same piece, just installing the certificate on the device took care of the problem.
For the Intellisync to work with a “non-trusted” certificate (i.e. a cert on the OMA server that doesn’t have a chain of trust to a root certificate already installed on the device), it won’t work without additional coaxing.
Using DisableCertChk.EXE (available here) will allow your mobile device to sync without checking for that chain of trust.
I’m troubleshooting Versamail 3.0 and Exchange Active Synch on SBS 2003. The device is a Treo 650 which comes with Versamail 3.0 I can synch a new event from the Outlook calendar to the Treo but not the Treo to Outlook. No one at Palm or Cingular seems to know much about this. Any ideas?
I’m sorry, Kenny, but I don’t know what that means. Can you elaborate?
anything on the FE-BE for ActiveSync? I’ve been looking everywhere. It seems like no one able to tell me anything to get it work.