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iPhone’s ActiveSync not quite as active as you’d expect?

Does anyone else have the problem of their iPhone not always syncing changes between itself and Exchange? 

I’ve noticed that the mailbox on my iPhone doesn’t always pick up on changes that I might make on my Outlook client or Webmail.  So for example at the moment my iPhone is showing 10 new meeting invitations that I have already accepted and replied to.  I’ve also just had to re-read 14 emails to stop them being highlighted as unread.

It seems an odd problem to me… but a few people here have found the same.  I thought I would see if anyone else had noticed this (it could be our instance of exchange?)

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3 Responses to “iPhone’s ActiveSync not quite as active as you’d expect?”

  1. iPhone’s ActiveSync not quite as active as you’d expect? Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptDoes anyone else have the problem of their iPhone not always syncing changes between itself and Exchange? I’ve noticed that the mailbox on my iPhone doesn’t always pick up on changes that I might make on my Outlook client or Webmail. … [...]

  2. Michael Knowles Says:
    November 16th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    Tom,

    Yes, i’ve noticed this. iPhone’s Activesync is rubbish. It hardly ever syncs my email/calendar/contacts unless I actually click the manual refresh button. I thought it might have been because of my Exchange server being monolithic with the IIS etc hacks to allow it to be both a FE and BE server, but if you’re also experiencing them on a traditional Front/Back end deployment as well that might be a pointer.

    I must say, it’s totally random though. Sometimes I can be sat there and it’ll chime with a new email just before my laptop does. Others I can be hours out of date with about 15 emails waiting.

    Poor, Apple. Poor!

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    December 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

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