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Chapter 6
Synchronizing Information
6.1 Ways of Synchronizing Your Phone
You can take information wherever you go by synchronizing it to your phone. There are different ways you can
sync your phone:
Sync information from your computer to your phone.
The following types of information can be synchronized:
Microsoft Office Outlook information — Office Outlook email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes
Notes created using Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007
Media — Pictures, music, and video
Favorites — Website addresses you save as Favorites in Internet Explorer® on your phone or in the
Mobile Favorites folder of Internet Explorer on your computer.
Files — Documents and other files
Sync your phone with your Outlook work account on the Exchange Server.
For more information about setting up your phone to sync with the Exchange Server, see Chapter 8.
Sync your phone with Microsoft My Phone.
If you have a Microsoft My Phone account, you can sync and restore the contacts, calendar appointments,
photos, and other information that you stored on your account to your current Windows phone.
See “Synchronizing With Microsoft My Phone” in this chapter for details.
6.2 Before Synchronizing With Your Computer
Before you can sync with your computer, you need to install and set up first the synchronization software
on your computer. For more information, see “Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows 7 and
Windows Vista” and “Setting Up ActiveSync on Windows XP” in this chapter.
After installing the synchronization software on your computer, connect the phone to your computer using the
USB sync cable. When the Connect to PC screen appears on your phone, tap ActiveSync, and then tap Done.
You can also sync information with your computer using Bluetooth. See “Synchronizing via Bluetooth” later in
this chapter.
Notes • ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center only syncs data on your computer and phone. If you have installed
a storage card and you want to back up files from the storage card, use Windows Explorer on your computer to
copy files from the storage card to your computer.
• If you are sending your phone for repair or performing a hard reset, data from your phone will be lost. It is
recommended that you sync your phone to your computer to back up your files. To back up files from the storage
card to your computer, use Windows Explorer to copy files from the storage card to the computer.
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