Windows Mobile 6.1 and Australian DST

davidr — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:28:00 GMT

I have an HTC Touch Pro. Runs Windows Mobile 6.1 - and I'm really happy with the device. Unfortunately WinMo 6 timezone definitions do not include the right settings for Australia - we changed the start dates and end dates a while back.

I couldn't find a suitable download from Microsoft to fix the timezones, but I did find a TimeZone Editor on MobilitySite. If you're a Firefox user you'll need to allow scripting to be able to download the ZIP file (I've also attached it below - it is not my work but that of "Galina" in New Zealand).

Five steps required:

Run the application (extract it to your storage card or \Program Files or similar)
Action --> Get Current
Change the start and end date rules (not intuitive). I think "5 Sunday" means last Sunday of the month
Action --> Set Current
Restart the phone.

That last one was the most annoying - I spent ages trying to figure out why the change had not worked.

ActiveSync: Consumer Email means Windows Live

davidr — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT

This is a bit of a WTF, because the MS documentation doesn't seem to match up with the implementation.

There are two policy settings that seem to prevent users from establishing their own personal accounts if they are using your Exchange 2007 ActiveSync service. The first is:

AllowPOPIMAPEmail
This setting specifies whether the user can configure a POP3 or an IMAP4 e-mail account on the device.

The other setting is:

AllowConsumerEmail
This setting specifies whether the mobile device user can configure a personal e-mail account (either POP3 or IMAP4) on the device.

Actually, this second setting is not for controlling POP3 and IMAP4. Configuring this setting to True tells the Windows Mobile 6.1 device to block "WLMService.DLL", which is responsible for connecting to Windows Live services.

So if you configure AllowConsumerEmail = False in your policy, you'll block the use of Hotmail, Live Messenger and all other Live services. If you really wanted to block POP3 and IMAP4 services, use the AllowPOPIMAPEmail = False setting instead.

Addendum: AllowConsumerEmail also looks like it blocks Windows Updates for your Mobile device. It wasn't working, then I set AllowConsumerEmail to True, and lo and behold it started working.

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