Re: Exchange Active-Sync protocol

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 20, 2004, at 19:53, Michael Brown wrote:
> 1. Is this ActiveSync just a form of WebDAV/HotSync
> for Exchange?

As far as I know ActiveSync is just an API, comparable to MAPI. That 
is, you have an ActiveSync service which runs on Windows and which you 
can write plugins for (of course plugins for Exchange already exist).

But I might be wrong, I don't know whether the protocol the WinCE 
device is talking to the ActiveSync service is somehow consistent. 
Might be.

> 2. When products actually using this hit the market
> (after Oct 25), would this likely be something that
> could be integrated into OGo/Zidestore?  (once reverse
> engineered, or if there's an API).

AFAIK the API is available, one could write an ActiveSync plugin for 
Windows (just like you can write an MAPI SP plugin for Outlook). But 
this is quite some work.

Another thought: maybe MultiSync already has the protocol reverse 
engineered.

Greets,
   Helge
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