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Global Address List (GAL) Caching?

  • Artigo

From talking with a few of my US colleagues we've had quite a few customers looking for GAL synchronisation/caching solutions for Windows Mobile.

I'm not sure I see the need for this with Global Address List lookup integrated into Windows Mobile but the frequency of the requests for this have increased recently....

I've been searching looking for a solution and only really come up with this one called mGALSync. 

So what are your thoughts on this?

 

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Nice One!!! Now can Micrsoft integrate something into WM6.1 or 7 please.... this is usefull when writing e-mails without a connection. Rishi

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Agree with Rishi, offline access would be brilliant.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Just looking at mGALsync and its a non starter, we have some staff who never login to a PC and only have access to OWA and a PDA, mGALsync copies everything to the contacts which requires an Outlook & PC connection for the end user.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    Something like this would be great but not only for GAL but also for a public folder of shared contacts. I know lots of companies who use a shared public folder to track customer contacts and mobile CRM staff are crying out for access from their windows mobile devices.

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Caching GAL would result in a massive file on the device that would need to be handled. To keep system speed up it would not be possible to integrate all the data to Outlook (that's actually one of the reasons that people use GAL). My first choice would be a cache of the last 10 -15 requested contacts searched in GAL. I think this would already cover a lot of user requests. Second choice would a an Outlook independet cache that can be stored on external memory such as storage card.

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    I've been happy with the online lookups but rather than holding the entire GAL on the phone something that caches recently used emaill address but with the added facility of an an offline mode that lets you compose the mail by entering the persons name and then does an online lookup when you are back online and sending your mail, with a confirmation prompt on the name if multiple entries exist.