Synchronization

Introduction

Group-Office supports two synchronization protocols. It supports Microsoft ActiveSync and SyncML. To use ActiveSync z-push must be installed. Read modules/sync/z-push/INSTALL.TXT for installation instructions. When z-push is installed at the server, phones can be configured to use ActiveSync very easily. To test if your server is setup with ActiveSync support you can enter:

http://your.url.to.groupoffice/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync

If it's working you should get a Z-push browser authentication dialog which you should simply cancel.

Group-Office can synchronize the following items:

1. Appointments
2. Tasks
3. Contacts
4. Notes (SyncML only)
5. E-mail (ActiveSync only, E-mail can be configured with IMAP when using SyncML clients)

Client or device setup

Group-Office can synchronize with the following clients or devices:

1. Outlook
2. Gnome Evolution
3. Mobile devices with ActiveSync support
   Use your Group-Office username, password and the domain part without http:// and subdirectories.
   1. iPhone
   2. Nokia Mail for Exchange
   3. Windows Mobile
   4. Palm
   5. Google Android
4. Synthesis SyncML clients
   1. Windows Mobile/Pocket PC
   2. Palm OS
   3. iPhone
5. Symbian SyncML client on Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others
6. Blackberry
7. Thunderbird 3 (Experimental! We tested TB3.1 with lightning 1.0b1 and Funambol client 0.9beta)
8. Other phones that support ActiveSync or SyncML

Group-Office synchronization settings

When you click the "Settings" button on the top right you'll find a synchronization tab in the settings window. Here you can control the addressbooks, tasklists and calendar to synchronize with. You can also enable the automatic deletion of events and tasks that are older then a configurable number of days. With this setting enabled all old events will be deleted from your phone but not from Group-Office. This way your phone stays clean and fast.

Deleting synchronization devices

In general you should never delete a device. It's only useful when you want to start over with a clean phone. So when you hard reset the device and reformat everything you should delete the device in Group-Office too so all information is gone there too.

When you delete it on Group-Office and don't reset the device you will get double entries because Group-Office does not know the relations anymore and it will resend all items to the phone.

Troubleshooting

See the Troubleshooting page for more information.