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1. jwest@jwcs.com

   
   Posted on: June 13, 2007 at 10:54PM  

   6.1 fixed my issues so far. 6.0 didn't work well with my Verizon xv6700. Thanks! I am an IT consultant in the SMB space, mostly SBS users. I have one universal complaint across my client base, admittedly myself included. Devices can't sync with public contact folders. Ouch. Small businesses especially rely on these shared contact folders so they don't have to duplicate shared contact info, but it renders mobile devices unusable, unless they have a Blackberry or Palm OS which allows them to sync to public contacts. Exchange 2007 didn't fix this, but if you could do it at the desktop that would still be good enough. My clients want Email and Calendar in real time. Contacts once a week or so is good enough. Right now my clients are buying 3rd party software just to sync their public contacts. What gives?
2. MWYada

   
   Posted on: June 16, 2007 at 2:41AM  

   Syncing has always been problematic for me.  I have a Treo 700w.  I had so many sync errors on WinXP I finally just gave-up and stopped syncing mail entirely.  So disappointing.

   Now I'm on Vista.  The Sync Center is not very well conceived, I must say.  The systray icon doesn't always give me the confirmation that my device is sync'd.  (I only have one device.)  Plus, now I have to click through 5 or 6 clicks to find settings... whereas before I get there in 2 or 3 clicks.

   I still have sync issues.  Once I installed Mobile Device Center 6.1, duplicates were created of all my tasks.  I was left to sort-through them manually (about 900 in all.)  Needless to say, I was not happy.
3. janely

   
   Posted on: June 18, 2007 at 3:09PM  

   Hi Mr. Dimpy/Steve,

   I will need your ETL log files to diagnose the problem.  They are located here: %windir%\system32\logfiles\windowsmobile\.

   Please send them to dcinput@microsoft.com with an explanation of your problem.  We can go from there.

   Thanks!
4. ITLALA

   
   Posted on: June 19, 2007 at 11:50PM  

   Hi Jane,

   I am sure e-mail is sync to my device and i still doesn't see any feature or option to activate IRM on Mobile Device Setting. I only able to see Get Cert feature.

   Besides, i do have a question about the feature "allow data connection on device when connected to PC". I am trying the feature and yes the GPRS connection will not be shutoff eventhough i connect my device to PC and WMDC connection is extablish. But the problem here is when i trying to browse a website and i am not able to. It just doesn't seem using the GPRS connection at all. The connection setting on my WMDC is set to Automatic. I am sure that the GPRS setting is correct as when i disconnect the device from PC then the browsing just works fine. Is there any setting i need to setup in order to make this works? Or is there any guide on how this works?

   Regards,

   Ryan.
5. mbamcse

   
   Posted on: June 21, 2007 at 5:05PM  

   Am I having the following problem with Outlook AND WMDC due to installing the WMDC software??

   After a couple of times trying to start Outlook 2007, and seeing nothing happen, I checked the Task Manager. There I found that there were several instances of Outlook.exe running (not in applications, but only in process tab). I then stopped all the processes and started Outlook again, and it started normally.

   Unless I am starting Outlook after a reboot, I now simply start Outlook and then go to the Task Manager and see two processes, and then stop one. Here I learned something else... if you stop the right one Outlook pops right up and runs normally. If you choose the wrong one you get the message that Outlook should start in Safe Mode. What I have discovered is that you need to stop the instance which is using the larger amount of memory to get the "fresh" instance to start.

   My unsatisfactory workaround gets me into Outlook, but no sync is ever successful. Are these problems related - - the unsuccessful sync and the incorrect Outlook shutdown? Actually the sync problem occurs whether or not the Pocket PC phone is in the cradle.

   It starts to sync and fails, then starts all over again until I get tired of looking at it and cancel the sync. This all ran properly with XP Pro, Outlook 2002 and the "old" sync software. I now run Office 2007 Enterprise on Vista Ultimate... no addins other than what came standard ... and the WMDC.
6. janely

   
   Posted on: June 21, 2007 at 5:29PM  

   Hi mbamcse,

   Can you tell me exactly what sync error you get?  Please email me at dcinput@microsoft.com with steps on how to reproduce your problem and exactly what error you see.

   Thanks.
7. Ian Lawson

   
   Posted on: June 23, 2007 at 12:14PM  

   Hi Jane

   I run vista/WMDC6/WM latest version on pocket PC. I’ve been monitoring the forum windowsvistablog.com and wanted to feed back two issues:

   1. I also have lost much data when syncing, my data on either mobile device or outlook simply disappears. This is business critical and has legal implications. I now have had my pocket PC dead on the desk since these troubles began with vista, I am back to using notes on my desktop and pen and paper with a client! I hope the conflict resolution can be improved – with my old Palm system, there was the option to duplicate, with user control, so I never lost data and was always alerted via a log, and then knew to manually resolve. This was acceptable, losing data is not.

   2. Something is wrong with the sync software as I now have 12 copies of some of my outlook notes, all with slightly varying titles assigned by WMDC, before Vista I had only one copy, other notes have 11 copies, or 10, or 9 for others etc.

   3. When I make changes to a note in Outlook, that note simply disappears until I perform a sync, then it returns. The notes that disappear are not even accessible via advanced search. Because I have given up with WMDC until updates are released, my data is being held hostage until a sync happens. Why does my data have to disappear in outlook and is this issue fixed in the forthcoming 6.1?

   I do appreciate that managing this kind of complexity is not easy, but we all know that WMDC was released below par, a friend of mine personally knows people in that team and they weren’t happy with the release.

   A brief reply to this address would be appreciated.

   With my kindest regards

   Ian Lawson
8. ITLALA

   
   Posted on: June 24, 2007 at 10:25PM  

   Hi Janely,

   Any updates for my previous question?
9. ant

   
   Posted on: June 26, 2007 at 12:56PM  

   Ipaq 5455 Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1, cannot get to work on Vista Home Premium. USB drive not recognized. Any suggestions out there? Many thanks.
10. Copenhagen

    
    Posted on: June 27, 2007 at 2:54AM  

    Ihave been using Vista with my Dell Axim X51 since Vista Beta 2. I now have the commercial Ultimate Vista.

    There were problems along the way but the worst problem has no occurred when I installed the latest driver update Windows Mobile Device Center 6.

    I get two error messages - one that  svchost.exe has closed down and one that the Windows mobile 2003 based devices service has closed down. These events occur when I try to connect the device in it's USB cradle.

    When the upgrade runs, the first thing it does is install an unknown device (at first this took ages but after various tries this goes faster now in the preconfigured folders.)

    All I can do now is to choose the device connection type (excluding bluetooth) and then the whole Device center crashes and generates error messages when I try to connect.

    Vista synced perfectly with the device prior to the upgrade.

    I read the blog here and tried uninstalling the upgrade (WMDC) and booting and then re-installing. No change. I tried uninstalling and then installing each of two previous upgrades I still had - one from December and one from feb. No change.

    Any help available? I could send the ETL log files to dcinput@microsoft.com if someone there would recieve them and look at them.