Originally Posted by schnoid:
My situation is this... I currently sync all my data to outlook (contacts, calendar, memos, tasks, email) as I'm sure many of you do. I'm not sure if there's going to be any official solution for this on the Pre, but I wanted to take a pre-emptive strike on a solution by installing MS exchange. I figured I could at least sync contacts, calendar, tasks and email through that. So apparently I'm an idiot. I start installing it and BAM, it says I need Windows 2003 Server or higher. Since I've never set up an exchange server before I had no idea. Is there any MS Exchange type solution that would work on XP/Vista/2007 that doesn't involve storing all my data on the google servers? I don't want any of my contacts/calendars/tasks/memos stored online anywhere other than my PC at any point in time.
Might be a silly question, but do you have everything else you need for this to work? Like, a static IP (or dynamic DNS) that you can have your mail directed to?
For me, this is way to much hassle, and frankly I trust Google more than I trust my own personal infrastructure.
I do believe, though, that CompanionLink is going to have a local sync solution available at launch. If I were you, I'd wait to see what's out there before going to all this trouble. Sorry if that's unwelcome advice...