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Posted by Chris De Herrera on February 21, 2008, 11:44 pm
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Hi,
Unfortunately, there is no support to sync custom properties or custom
fields with Exchange ActiveSync or ActiveSync on your PC. The workaround
you are using is the best one I have heard of.
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Chris De Herrera
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> I'm working on a managed (C#) Windows Mobile 5.0 Application that
> manipulates Custom Properties of PimItem (Appointment) objects.
>
> Problem:
> It seems that neither Outlook User Properties nor PocketOutlook custom
> properties are synchronized to the Exchange 2003 Server by ActiveSync
>
> Work-around:
> My current work-around serializes the custom properties into the PimItem
> (Appointment) body,
> although this method works, it's not aesthetically pleasing for our
> desktop users because a blob of XML is visible when these appointments are
> viewed in outlook, additionally it may make the application more
> susceptible to user-error's because of the possibility of unintentionally
> editing the XML blob in the body of the appointment.
>
> Question:
> What are best practices for:
> 1. saving "Custom Properties" to a PocketOutlook PimItem
> 2. having these properties propagated by ActiveSync to an Exchange Server
> 3. accessing such properties from a managed Desktop application, or
> Exchange Store Sink
>
>
> Joris van Lier
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