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Using a WinCE Device with CorporateTime
Introduction
This class is designed to teach members of the
Cornell community how to use the new university
wide calendaring service, CorporateTime, with
Windows CE devices.
Before taking this class, you should have
completed or attended one of the following classes;
Getting
Started with CorporateTime, Transitioning
from Meeting Maker to CorporateTime or
How
to Use CorporateTime. You can find more
information about the Cornell CorporateTime project
at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/calendar/.
If you are unable to attend a Using a WinCE
Device with CorporateTime class, you can complete
the exercises in this document on your
own.
At the end of this class, you will be asked to
complete a course evaluation that is available
on-line at http://register.cit.cornell.edu:8000/eval/
. Please be sure you complete this evaluation
before you leave the class as your feedback is
important to us.
Requirements
for CorporateSync for Windows CE
System Requirements
Hand-held PC
- Supported devices:
- HPC (Windows Ce version 2.0 installed)
and MIPS & SH3 processor
- Palmsize black & white (WinCE
2.01-2.10) and MIPS & SH3
processor
- Palmsize color (WinCE 2.11) and MIPS
& SH3 processor
- HPC Professional/Version 3 (WinCE/Core
System Version 2.11) and MIPS, SH3, SH4,
ARM processor
- 4 MB memory
- 200 KB of free storage space
Desktop PC
- Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0
- 16 MB RAM (Win 95/98) or 24 MB RAM (NT)
- 3 MB hard disk space (5 MB recommended)
- CorporateTime 4.0.x+ required to synchronize
Address Books
- Windows CE Services 2.x
Installing
CorporateSync for Windows CE
The process of configuring a PDA (Personal Digital
Assitant) for use with CorporateTime agendas
involves several components. If you are
missing any of these components, the device will
not work properly, or at all. The components
for using CorporateTime with PDAs are reviewed
below:
- Connect the PDA to the desktop computer
using the instructions and necesary cabling
that came with the device.
- Install the PDA Desktop or Operating
System software on the Desktop PC.
- Download and Install the CorporateSync
software appropriate for your PDA.
- Configure the CorporateSync software on
the PDA.
- Perform your first syncronization.
So, let's get started (we are actually starting
up at step 3 above)....
- Close the Corporate Time application on your
desktop. You cannot synchronize Address
Book Entries when CorporateTime is open on your
PC.
- Connect your hand-held PC to your desktop
PC.
- If you would like to
purchase CorporateSync
licenses, please contact Charles
Jessop, the CIT Software Acquisition
Coordinator. CorporateSync licenses are
available through CIT at a discounted rate of
$30 per license plus an annual maintenance fee
of $4.54. Once you have purchased your
license, you can download a permanent version
from the CorporateSync Software Downloads page.
Make sure you have SideCar running when you go
to this site.
- After downloading, begin the setup by
double-clicking on the installation program file
called CSyncWCE.exe on your
desktop.
- Once the setup program begins, you will see
the screen shown below.
- Click on the
Continue button to
proceed through the setup program. After
clicking on the
Continue button and
seeing some file progress indicators, you will
see the following screen. Click on the
Next button to proceed
through the CorporateSync setup options.
- After clicking on
Next button, the setup
program will ask you what components of
CorporateSync that you wish to install. Since
you are installing to both your workstation and
your CE device, be sure that you have selected
Both Local and Remote Files
(recommended). Click on the
Next button.
- The setup program will now prompt you to
specify where you want it to install its program
files. Using the default path that is already
selected is recommended. Click on the
Next button.
- The next screen of the setup program asks
whether or not you wish to have the Start Menu
icons placed in a special folder. Again, using
the default suggestion is recommended.
Click on the Next
button.
- The next step is to select which type of CE
device to which you are installing. If you are
unsure of the device based on the description
presented here, you can locate that information
by clicking on the System
applet located in the Settings of your CE
device. In most cases, you will choose the
first option as shown below. Click
on the Next button.
- The setup program is now ready to begin
installing the files on both the workstation and
the CE device. Click on the
Next button to begin
copying the application files to your
computers.
- When you see the following screen, click the
Yes button to install
CorporateSync to the default location.
- Once the installation is completed, you will
see the following screen, click the
OK button.
- When you see the following screen, click the
Finish button to end
the installation.
- Look at your hand-held PC. Notice the
CorporateSync for Windows CE Settings dialog
box. Complete the following
information:
User
name: enter your
Corporate Time user name
Server:
calendar.cornell.edu,campus
If your department is using a server or node
other than the default, your departmental
Corporatetime support person will supply you
with the corrent server and node name to be
enter here.
- Click the Set Password button to activate
your password on your mobile PC. Use the
same password as your desktop application to
prevent confusion. If you forget your
CorporateSync password, you are in big
trouble!
- Click on the Sync
Range tab to set the number of
days, weeks or months in the future and past to
synchronize your events and tasks. Choose
a timeframe that makes sense for your personal
work habits.
- Click on the
Events tab and check
the box labeled Synchronize
Events. Also check the boxes
labeled Sync Refused
Events and Show
Attendees.
- Click on the Tasks
tab and check the box labeled
Synchronize
Tasks. Check the box labeled
Keep Completed Tasks and uncheck the box labeled
Limit Task Details to 4
Kilobytes (unless you are running
low on disk space).
- Click on the
Contacts tab and check
the box labeled Synchronize Contacts
with ***** Address Book.
Uncheck the box labeled Limit
Contact Details to 4 Kilobytes
(unless you are running low on disk space).
Synchronizing
a WinCE Device with a Desktop PC
In CorporateSync for Windows CE, the
synchronization settings are distributed between
your hand-held PC and your desktop PC. User
information, synchronization ranges, and
synchronization rules for events, tasks, and
contacts are both set and stored on the H/PC (AKA,
hand-held PC). The synchronization activity
and the rules for conflict resolution are set and
stored on the desktop PC.
- Click on Start, Programs,
Communication, CorporateSync on
your hand-held PC.
Adjusting
CorporateSync for Windows CE Settings
- Click on Start, Settings,
Control Panel (on your hand-held
PC).
- Double-click on the
CorporateSync
icon.
- Select each tab as necessary to make changes
to your CorporateSync Settings.
Un-installing
CorporateSync for Windows CE
NOTE: Deleting the CorporateSync
for Windows CE application and then reinstalling
will cause all agenda entries that are on both your
hand-held and desktop to be viewed as separate
entries. The next time you synchronize, the entries
will be duplicated. To avoid this,
reinstall CorporateSync without uninstalling it
first. If you simply must uninstall
CorporateSync for Windows CE, follow the
instructions below:
- On your desktop, click on the Windows Start
button.
- Select Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove
Programs.
- Select "CS&T CorporateSync Setup
Applet". The "CorporateSync Settings" icon
will be removed from the control panel the next
time that the control panel is started.
- CorporateSync does not support Windows CE
3.0 as delivered on the Jornada 54x at this
time. CS&T is looking at support in the next
release of CorporateSync, which is expected in
Fall 2000.
- Some problems have been reporting with
syncronizing the contact list. It may report
that there is no contact list and the message
will read something like:
Initializing...
Synchronizing Events...
Synchronizing Tasks...
Synchronizing Contacts...
The user name is unknown on this server --
please verify it in CorporateSync for Windows
CE.
Error #19906 in CWceSyncThread.cpp, label
300.
Synchronization failed.
On the WinCE machine in Start, Settings, Control
Panel, Corporate Sync, try entering the actual
CorporateTime user ID for the Contact list name
and rename the contact list the same on the
desktop client
- Some users with Windows 98 may experience
page fault protection errors when attempting to
synchronize for the first time CS&T
has reported problems running CorporateSync
under Win98 original edition.
The exact error message will be something
like: CST_WCE caused an invalid page fault in
module CST_WCE.exe at xxxxxx. If this
happens, there are several things to try
and in this order:
- Details and attendees included with Day
Events and Daily Notes created in CorporateTime
are transferred into the Notes section on the
hand-held (attendees before details). Notes
created on the hand-held, added before the
attendee list (not in the details section), are
deleted upon synchronization.
- Pocket Outlook does not support times in
start and due dates. If you modify these Tasks
on the hand-held and then synchronize, the times
will be lost.
- If an Entry is deleted on one side and an
unmpped field is modified on the other, the
Entry will be deleted.
- Deleting the application and then
reinstalling will cause all Entries that are on
both your hand-held and desktop to be viewed as
non-corresponding Entries. The next time you
synchronize, the Entries will be duplicated. To
avoid this, reinstall CorporateSync without
uninstalling it first.
- Avoid problems by keeping your hand-held
connected when installing remote files.
- You cannot synchronize the hand-held's
repeating Events. You can, however, synchronize
CorporateTime's recurring Entries.
- You cannot synchronize Address Book Entries
when CorporateTime is open on your PC.
- You can only synchronize with one Address
Book.
- If using CorporateTime/OpenTime 3.4, you
cannot synchronize your contacts.
- CorporateSync currently only fully supports
English-language synchronization.
- If the CorporateTime Address Book you
synchronize with becomes deleted and you
recreate one with the same name, the next time
you synchronize, all unmodified hand-held
contacts will be deleted.
- CorporateSync is unable to present a list of
possible matches for duplicated names. To avoid
this problem, enter as much unique user
information as possible (e.g. organization unit,
etc.).
- Reminders for Entries and Tasks that occur
on the same day you synchronize your Windows CE
device may not appear. You will be notified of
the error, but it will not affect your
synchronization.
CorporateSync 1.1.3 for Windows CE resolves a
number of limitations created by hand-held
reminders. Previous versions of CorporateSync
would fail during synchronization when a
reminder for an Entry was scheduled to go off
that day, since the device would only refresh
the reminders database at midnight. With
CorporateSync 1.1.3, you will receive a warning
regarding the reminder, but synchronization is
not interrupted. To resolve the reminder
problem, open the Windows CE calendar,
double-click the Entry that failed to
synchronize and choose OK. This updates the
information in the user notification
database.
Note: Steltor maintains a folder of
Read Mes and Release Notes about the CorporateSync for WinCE.
Your comments on this draft documentation are welcome!
Please send them to it-training@cornell.edu
.
Last modified: May 25, 2007
Contact Person: it-training@cornell.edu
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