Email on the road
With the release of Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 and the use of Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, clients can have a different experience of mobile messaging using ‘Direct Push'. It provides a mechanism to ensure your device is always up to date with the latest information and changes to your Outlook mailbox.
With Direct Push, when a change is detected in your mailbox a trigger is sent to your mobile device to synchronise that change. The device then picks up any new email, calendar, contact or tasks information. Through this mechanism the device will always receive new items as soon as they are received whether the device roams, is on GPRS, WiFi or any IP based network.
Many people are familiar with the mobile email experience that Blackberry provides which is termed 'Push Email' with Blackberry as a new email appears in your mailbox - the first 2kb of that email is forwarded from your Exchange server to the Blackberry Network Operations Centre (NOC) and then on to your device.
Direct Push provides the same real-time experience as Blackberry in that when a new email is sent it is received almost immediately on the device.
The major benefit to our clients is that no additional hardware, such as a dedicated Blackberry server, is necessary and using ‘Direct Push' ensures that no data is sent to a third party.