Send/receive text messages from Outlook
In WIndows Mobile 6.5, with Exchange 2010, we could send/receive text messages directly from Outlook on our computer. Bring back pls! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/send-and-receive-text-messages-sms-HA101823438.aspx
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Ciaran Shortall
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Windows PC SMS sync with Android phone - YES!
Windows PC SMS sync with windows phone? - NO!
Crazy!I was happily sending sms messages on my PC with outlook via my Galaxy SII Android device. Now I changed to Windows mobile to discover it cant do it! Fix this ASAP!
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Jono
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I held off purchasing a WM 6.5 phone and waited for 8 because it was the latest and no doubt superior - doh
Searching ebay for a 6.5 now
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Yashar Bahman commented
This would be awesome if it was integrated with Outlook.com!
For that matter... Skype and Windows messenger as well. But that's another story
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Jimmy
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Need to merge the requests for this - I bet it would have quite a few votes.
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Jimmy
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Yes - please bring this back. It's the think I miss most going from 6.5 to WP7 / 7.5. I know probably a lot of folks were not using this - as it required some pretty specific updates to get working, but when it was setup - it worked flawlessly. Being able to compose and send a text message from my inbox in outlook was awesome. Also being able to read them in outlook was great as well.
You could leave your phone in the car, and still send receive while in the office - there was something great about that.
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Gerhard
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A very important feature that makes businesslife much more easy! Please bring it back in WP7.8 / WP8.
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Tim
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Yes, this feature would be great - it's the thing I've missed most since switching the day the first WP7 phones came out in the UK. I'd got my older WinMo working well with our company Exchange Server and it was really useful to have all texts sync back to Outlook (useful for backup and search) and being able to type replies quickly when I was at my desk.
This surely can't be difficult to implement as it's all ready the exchange end, just needs WP7 to include text messages on it's syncing schedule - I'd of thought it wouldn't be a lot of additional coding.
Also - as a next step, with the improved integration with Hotmail/Live why not add the text messaging format to Hotmail also - this would open up the feature to the general public and I think it would be well received.
I do find it frustrating that great features like this (which have already been proven and aren't really, in the scheme of things, very complex to add) aren't being implemented - it'll only take Apple to come along and do it and everyone will think it's the best thing ever despite MS having done it years ago!
Get it sorted! :)
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Tim
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Yes, this feature would be great - it's the thing I've missed most since switching the day the first WP7 phones came out in the UK. I'd got my older WinMo working well with our company Exchange Server and it was really useful to have all texts sync back to Outlook (useful for backup and search) and being able to type replies quickly when I was at my desk.
This surely can't be difficult to implement as it's all ready the exchange end, just needs WP7 to include text messages on it's syncing schedule - I'd of thought it wouldn't be a lot of additional coding.
Also - as a next step, with the improved integration with Hotmail/Live why not add the text messaging format to Hotmail also - this would open up the feature to the general public and I think it would be well received.
I do find it frustrating that great features like this (which have already been proven and aren't really, in the scheme of things, very complex to add) aren't being implemented - it'll only take Apple to come along and do it and everyone will think it's the best thing ever despite MS having done it years ago!
Get it sorted! :)
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Genky
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Please make this very important business feature !
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Luke
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we need to have this feature back...
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Anonymous
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either to outlook or live account, but this is necessary
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Anonymous
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I feel it was pretty useful feature.
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Digvijay Nath
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Need this feature badly.
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Anonymous
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There're many good features in WM including this one.
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Jay
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Was a really useful feature - miss it a lot.
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offbeatmammal
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either build this into the OS or make it an option for 3rd party developers to build a utility that can (eg) sync SMSes to SkyDrive or a mail folder of your choosing (and make it bi-directionaly so after a phone has been reset you can get messages back if you need to)
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Code Chief commented
Love the way the SMS messages appeared in your in-box with ActiveSync and Windows Mobile 6.5. Should appear as a tick-box in the Exchange sync options of Windows Phone 7.
This feature should also return because we lost the "My Phone" backup service. Having emails synced to online Exchange/Office365 would also serve as a backup in case you lose the device.
It also serves as an excellent way of tracking business events. Much information comes via SMS, especially when people are late for meetings or travelling. Hence this information really belongs in the inbox anyway.
Nice to have: also sync converstation, by storing the appropriate metadata on the generated Outlook messages so they appear in "replied to" links and conversation search in Outlook.
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Anonymous
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Bring it back, it can't come quick enough. But really MS, SMS and Tasks your users actually use these items so get with it or loose our support.
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binu B K
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Please bright this back
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John Wilson
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Please bring this back.....
