[Kolab-devel] Handheld devices and Kolab

[Matt Douhan]

Hello

Just a quick note to let you guys know that we had a customer that required 
IPAQ's to sync with kolab in a mixed client environment, and it causes some 
weird and wonderful issues and solutions but it can be done and it does work 
nicely.

for OL users using the connector does the job nicely, and all one has to do is 
install activesync and enjoy.

for Kontact users on the other hand life is not so simple, one needs a 
converter from Kolab XML -> OL format, and we solved this by using a terminal 
server with activesync, this allows us to share the "ipaq" calendar to the 
kontact user, same account different clients, then we got into troubles with 
two clients accesing the data at the same time so this was not a good one. So 
we decided to create an IPAQ user and configure the terminal server to give 
the real user access to its calendar, and in kontact we simply made that 
calendar the default calendar and that way we keep things in sync, this is 
pretty new stuff and not very refined but the customer is happy so far and 
the solution is stable as far as we can see.

Web users, we solved in the same way, outlook on a terminal server that sorts 
out the sync.

a "hackish" but stable solution and in a mixed environment we were not able to 
find any other workable solution, since the IPAQ does not speak Kolab XML

More detailed info avail on request is specific questions are asked :)

rgds

Matt

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Matt Douhan
www.fruitsalad.org
kolab2 + kontact + toltec == success
Now lets get Horde into shape mmkay