This may be something completely obvious and I'm overlooking it, but here's
what I want to do:
I have a WM5 device (HTC Tytn) that syncs at work. Our work network is based
on MS SBS 2003, and thus includes ISA 2004 Premium as a proxy/firewall.
We also have a wireless AP at the office, which is inside the ISA firewall,
but is secured in a reasonable fashion (knock on wood).
Within the office, I can sync via USB no problem. After some experimenting,
I am also able to sync wirelessly within the office. To do so, I have to set
up the AP to use Work network connection, and for the proxy, I use the
internal Netbios name of the server (rather than the FQDN). For example, I
use "server", instead of "mail.server.com".
Same thing within ActiveSync 4.1, in the Configure Server Source, I use the
Netbios name instead of FQDN, and I can sync wirelessly, as well as over
USB.
So far so good. My issue is this. When I am outside of the office, and using
a different access point (or GPRS), it will of course not see the internal
server name, and wants the FQDN so it can get there via the internet. To do
so, I can change the proxy to use the FQDN, and ActiveSync to use the FQDN,
but it's a bit of a pain to have to re-enter passwords and such.
Is there any way of simplifying this process, to in effect create a
different "profile" for instances of ActiveSync on the PPC, one when I'm in
the office, and one when I'm not?
Hope I've explained this well enough. Anyone have ideas, or whether it's at
all possible?
caz
Chris De Herrera - 26 Nov 2006 03:22 GMT
Hi Craig,
ActiveSync does not support multiple profiles for ActiveSync. The concept
that Microsoft used was to use the FQDN all the time to sync. So this
assumes that you can access the FQDN from within the AP and desktop rather
than hitting the server directly. This way you can sync anywhere.

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> This may be something completely obvious and I'm overlooking it, but
> here's what I want to do:
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Craig Zawada - 27 Nov 2006 17:13 GMT
Thanks, Chris. Perhaps you know, or maybe I'll crosspost this thread in the
SBS newsgroup to find out how I can get the FQDN to respond from within the
network. I expect it's something simple and stupid on my part, so I'll need
someone with more networking experience to show me the error of my ways.
The issue is that internally, our users see the server named "crock" (all
names have been changed to protect the innocent). The FQDN is
"mail.thread.com". In other words, there is no commonality between the
internal server name and the FQDN.
Thanks again for your help.
Craig A. Zawada
> Hi Craig,
> ActiveSync does not support multiple profiles for ActiveSync. The concept
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>> caz
Chris De Herrera - 28 Nov 2006 07:11 GMT
Hi,
The default with SBS is to use the same internal name as the external name.
So the name internally should be Mail and mail.thread.com externally. You
can still have an internal name of crock as well if you want. Also, you
should add the domain suffix to the server which may help.
This is what I use with my SBS 2003 server to sync internally and
externally.

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> Thanks, Chris. Perhaps you know, or maybe I'll crosspost this thread in
> the SBS newsgroup to find out how I can get the FQDN to respond from
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Craig Zawada - 28 Nov 2006 17:07 GMT
Thanks again, Chris. As per a suggestion from SuperGumby in the SBS group, I
added a DNS zone for the FQDN in SBS, and it seems to work now. I think the
main issue is that our SBS install doesn't use the default matching of FQDN
with internal server name. In any event, we're good to go.
caz
> Hi,
> The default with SBS is to use the same internal name as the external
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