Windows Mobile 7 - Anyone got one?

[paddyhasneeds]

I've been told that if you use one to connect to ActiveSync/Exchange you cannot have a space in your username.

Does anyone have one who can confirm if this is correct?

[lestag]

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w...
may be of help?

Edited by lestag on Wednesday 10th November 12:59

[paddyhasneeds]

Thanks, I did Google but perhaps on the wrong things.

Makes sense as I believe this is an HTC, so whether it's a 7 thing or an HTC thing I don't know, but it seems fking retarded.

[TonyRPH]

paddyhasneeds said:

I've been told that if you use one to connect to ActiveSync/Exchange you cannot have a space in your username.

Does anyone have one who can confirm if this is correct?

Exchange will always setup an alias for your username (usually without a space) - it might be worth asking your admin what your alias is.

The alias is also usually visible in OWA as part of the URL.

[lestag]

paddyhasneeds said:

Thanks, I did Google but perhaps on the wrong things.

Makes sense as I believe this is an HTC, so whether it's a 7 thing or an HTC thing I don't know, but it seems fking retarded.

yeah my google foo is in at the moment, but the workaround looks like to use the email address and no domain name (which was what i was going to suggest funnily enough..but dont have a win7 phone.. )

mind you i NEVER allowed such a thing in a username. Probably goes back to my MS lan manger 1.1 days and DOS...

the WP7 is just like the first iphone and android... released too soon , with limitations, that just like the others will be fine in 6 months .. after the first service pack..

[paddyhasneeds]

TonyRPH said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I've been told that if you use one to connect to ActiveSync/Exchange you cannot have a space in your username.

Does anyone have one who can confirm if this is correct?

Exchange will always setup an alias for your username (usually without a space) - it might be worth asking your admin what your alias is.

The alias is also usually visible in OWA as part of the URL.

I am the admin Our usernames have always from before my time been "Joe Bloggs" and it's never been an issue except the the *nix/linux guys who have to have shortened usernames.

The Exchange aliases are also "Joe Bloggs" format. We've got a right mix of phones syncing already via ActiveSync but this is someone's own Phone 7 mobile (another argument altogether) and is the first time we've had a problem.

[TonyRPH]

The very reason why every server I setup always uses 'firstname.lastname' or 'firstnameinitial' as the username.

I have avoided many issues with this format.

As lestag suggested, would the email address work? I would be surprised though...

[malman]

TonyRPH said:

As lestag suggested, would the email address work? I would be surprised though...

I wouldn't as long as its a valid UPN in AD

[TonyRPH]

malman said:

TonyRPH said:

As lestag suggested, would the email address work? I would be surprised though...

I wouldn't as long as its a valid UPN in AD

If I try and access Windows shares on our SBS network, the email address does not work as a valid username.

Not tried it for things such as IMAP / POP3 though.

[lestag]

malman said:

TonyRPH said:

As lestag suggested, would the email address work? I would be surprised though...

I wouldn't as long as its a valid UPN in AD

Yes your correct, I may be confusing things here as I have always setup the windows domain as domain.co.uk rather than domain.local or similar, so the email address as magically matched the UPN

Assigning an additional UPN for the users in question could solve it

[malman]

TonyRPH said:

malman said:

TonyRPH said:

As lestag suggested, would the email address work? I would be surprised though...

I wouldn't as long as its a valid UPN in AD

If I try and access Windows shares on our SBS network, the email address does not work as a valid username.

Not tried it for things such as IMAP / POP3 though.

You should be able to login to windows with your SBS email address. If you are using .local for AD domain then you probably need to add a UPN suffix to the domain to use your real email addresses. If you look at user properties page in AD and go to account properties look at "user logon name" it will have the default UPN".

As to the original question about Phone 7 usernames I don't actually know if this works but I would expect it to