Environment:
Exchange 2007 (fully updated)
Various phone OSes (iPhone, Android, Nokia, whatever)
Hi,
Is it possible to (wirelessly) ActiveSync contact subfolders?
Background: My company wants every employee to have contact information (on their cell phone) for all other employees, preferably with pictures of the employees as well. The employees should also be categorized into groups, indicating which department they are working in.
We know ActiveSync does not support syncing the GAL, nor Public Folders, but were fairly sure that it was possible to sync subfolders in your own mailbox. So our plan was to create and keep updated a public “Employees” contact folder, which each employee then regularly could just “drag and drop” copy over to their own Contacts folder (in Outlook 2010), where it would sit as a subfolder. This, in turn, should then be able to be sync’ed out.
However, this subfolder is not showing up on my test phone (an HTC Desire Z A7272 running Android (version 2.3.3, it says)), and so I anticipate others having the same issue.
Is there a surefire way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any help + insights.
Thank you for your reply.
Regarding your concern about keeping the information up-to-date, I agree. The plan was to keep just the public folder updated (by a designated employee), and then the individual employees would just drag-and-drop that always-updated public folder to their own mailbox (where it would become a subfolder under their "main" contact folder) whenever they felt that their own (previously copied) version was too outdated.
Regarding solutions, 1) E-mail subfolders do appear to be supported, in that I can get those to sync successfully. So I tried adding a contact folder under my main e-mail folder (Inbox), but that did not sync either. 2) Does Add2Exchange just merely sync the contents of a public folder into your "main" contacts folder? I'm not sure we want the information in their main contacts folder...
Br,
Hans