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Direct Push Guide

October 1st, 2006 by Paul Mah
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I am currently working on a comprehensive guide to Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology based on my own experiences (I wanted to say struggles, but if I said that you probably wouldn’t read it anymore would you?) getting Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 and my HP rw6818 to talk push mail. The topics and coverage are more or less finalized. In fact, I’ve listed them below.

Hopefully, it’ll be a help to folks tearing their hair out trying to get Microsoft’s push mail up and running with their Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. The goal is to create a readable guide that gives a sufficiently technical and broad coverage of Direct Push without boring you to tears. This placeholder page will not be changed - so feel free to link here directly and come back periodically as I finish up the other sections.

1. Introduction

The Concept of Push Mail
AUTD: An earlier method of Push Mail by Microsoft
When nudge comes to shove: How push is Direct Push
How does Direct Push really work? (Updated:18 Oct 2006)
How is Microsoft’s Direct Push better than the BlackBerry? (Updated 20 Oct 2006)

2. Getting it up!

Pre-requisites for Direct Push
Setting up your Server: Web2Mail
Setting up your Server: Exchange 2003
Configuring your Handheld
- Setting Up Direct Push via The Desktop (Not paired)

3. Advanced Topics

Troubleshooting and diagnosis
Monitoring your traffic
Advanced traffic tuning
Tricks and Tips

As it is a work in progress, if you spot any fractual mistakes or errors, do feel free to feedback to me by leaving your comments on this blog or by dropping me a mail directly at paulmah (at) gmail.com. Cheers!

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5 Responses to “Direct Push Guide”

on 06 Dec 2006 at 4:44 pm Anonymous

I look forward to reading more about fine-tuning the “heartbeat” intervals etc.

Also, I’d love to know how to set the schedule for manual sync vs. direct push - turning off direct push for weekends etc.

Are those options on the phone or in Exchange Server?
on 26 Jan 2007 at 10:02 pm gaw

images don’t display properly
on 29 Jan 2007 at 6:34 am Florian

Hi,
I found your blog via google by accident and have to admit that youve a really interesting blog
Just saved your feed in my reader, have a nice day
on 29 Jan 2007 at 5:47 pm Paul Mah

Thanks for the feedback; that was due me missing out on restoring the image files after the migration of the Wordpress blog backend. This has since been rectified. Enjoy reading
on 17 Feb 2007 at 6:44 am Juan Martinez

Hello Mr. Mah

I really appreciate all your effort to enrich this guide.

I just read your article “Which Uses Less Traffic: BlackBerry Push Or Microsoft Direct Push?” published last November 2006. Amazing!

Thanks God people like you exists and we can read on mobile technologies around to have balanced and fair opinions to make decisions.

Good luck.