MailTrust Noteworthy Blackberry Sync

[BigTrace]

Ok, I think I'm understanding this some more. I spoke with Mailtrust today and got some answers. They either host MS Exchange with BES Server add on, or their own product called Noteworthy which now has a sync piece that can be installed into the Blackberry. The only problem is it is only one-way, meaning it can sync your BB (contacts, tasks, calendar and notes) from your hosted Noteworthy account, but it cannot sync backwards from your BB to update your hosted Noteworthy account.

I'm wondering who uses this service and what other drawbacks might their be??

The only thing I'm finding out there is that its either Exchange for full MAPI 2-way support, or nothing. Seems crazy to me.

[wboebel]

> The only problem is it is only one-way, meaning it can sync your
> BB (contacts, tasks, calendar and notes) from your hosted
> Noteworthy account, but it cannot sync backwards from your BB
> to update your hosted Noteworthy account.

It's two-way. I use Sync with my Noteworthy account every day and can't live with out it. I add events to my calendar on my BlackBerry and it gets sent to my Noteworthy calendar, and vice-versa... and same with contacts, etc.

[BigTrace]

That's odd. I spoke with 2 of their tech support guys and they said it wouldn't do that!! It makes my choices get better. I played with their demos today and they seem pretty robust and give me 95% or more of what my fellow workers and I need on an everyday basis.

Are you saying that when you are out in the field, you add a contact or calendar event to your BB, then next time it syncs (if automated), that new data is shoved back to your mailtrust account?? If so, that's awesome and I'll have to sign up for a free trial soon.

Do you know when using Noteworthy along with Outlook as your email front end, if the BlackBerry desktop software provides a 2 way sync as well (plugged into USB similar to Palm and WM). Even that would be acceptable instead of over the air. As long as the data went back and forth making both the computer and BB have the same info, I'm sold..

[brookssw]

Originally Posted by BigTrace

Do you know when using Noteworthy along with Outlook as your email front end, if the BlackBerry desktop software provides a 2 way sync as well (plugged into USB similar to Palm and WM). Even that would be acceptable instead of over the air. As long as the data went back and forth making both the computer and BB have the same info, I'm sold..

Hey there,

I've used Blackberry in the past as well, and while I haven't tried that specific configuration, I used Noteworthy Sync to synchronize with Outlook as well. Doing that, I was able to sync calendar/contacts/tasks in both directions between the blackberry, the noteworthy interface, and Outlook.

The final result was that any event, contact, etc. that I created on any of the three interfaces was displayed on all three after syncs were performed.

That said, if you would prefer to get the info synchronized by way of cable-sync between the blackberry and Outlook, I'm sure that would be possible as well.

[wboebel]

Originally Posted by BigTrace

Are you saying that when you are out in the field, you add a contact or calendar event to your BB, then next time it syncs (if automated), that new data is shoved back to your mailtrust account?? If so, that's awesome and I'll have to sign up for a free trial soon.

Yes, exactly. It is awesome

Originally Posted by BigTrace

Do you know when using Noteworthy along with Outlook as your email front end, if the BlackBerry desktop software provides a 2 way sync as well (plugged into USB similar to Palm and WM). Even that would be acceptable instead of over the air. As long as the data went back and forth making both the computer and BB have the same info, I'm sold..

I think that would work, although I've never tried it. Or you can run the Outlook Sync plugin and the BlackBerry Sync plugin and never have to dock your BlackBerry and fire up BB Desktop. The 2 plugins will keep everything in sync no matter where you add events/contacts.