OneNote should speak MAPI

[SevenG]

OneNote should talk MAPI to my Exchange Server, and have a number of clients
(CE, SmartPhone) to at least view if not post information. As an IT
professional I work from a number of desktops, a laptop, and on the go.
Speaking MAPI would allow OneNote to stay as up to date as Outlook,
simultaneously, on all devices. At present I can't safely run OneNote
simultaneously on my desktop, my laptop, and my home computer. Even so, I'll
be purchasing OneNote as soon as my evaluation is up, unless something
catastrophic rears it's head. If I could get OneNote on all my Windows based
devices at a resonable cost, and work from them all as simultaneously as
Outlook behaves, this would be THE killer app for me.

Thanks for your time.

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[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

For what reason would OneNote need to speak MAPI? It's not an email
program. There are ways of emailing OneNote data via Outlook (which can
obviously act as an email client in a multitude of ways - MAPI,
SMTP/POP3/IMAP, and HTTPS/RPC.

IIRC, MAPI is being phased out and is no longer the primary method of
communication with an Exchange server. Did you mean MAPI as a generic
sucstitute for "email capabilities"?

There are ways to keep a "My Notebook" folder synchronised on multiple
devices, and full support for a PDA is among the frequently-voiced
requests for the next version.

 

[SevenG]

Right now I'm running my two month trial of OneNote on a laptop and my
desktop, and I'm using it heavily as I help our company finally roll out
Exchange, and manage moving to a larger location. I set the default Notebook
locations up to my network drive and I synchronize it often in the course of
a day. However, I cannot run OneNote on both machines at the same time and
have read and write access on the same pages across two different machines.
This makes things a little irritating if I forget to close one note on my
desktop, or have it open on the page I was hoping to edit. As protocol, I'm
sure MAPI isn't the way to go about things, but the functionality it provides
Outlook for simultaneous up to date clients is mostly what I'm interested in.

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

SevenG,
Have you looked at the shared sessions functionality? It might fit your
needs better than storing the section on a shared drive. Shared sessions let
you take notes live on the pages in the session on multiple machines in
multiple places. The changes are made real time to all of the participant's
copies.

You might also want to change your timeout value on the sections you have
open on more than one machine. I think this is a changeable value, but my
brain is spacing out on me about where to change it
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