Introducing SMSOfficer

re: Introducing SMSOfficer

Paisano — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:25 GMT

One of the best posts I've ever read from anyone at Microsoft. Well done. I shared it on twitter just now.

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MS — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:40:15 GMT

Although tehnically speaking excellent solution, price of SMS message offered by SMSOfficer is way above standard SMS prices. One would think that they'd go with lower prices to attract customers ... too bad ...

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Canute — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:47:08 GMT

One question here - If you have to connect your phone to Outlook to send SMS then why do you have the option to send message notifications to a phone? Either you need to be at the computer or you need to use 2 phones!

Please clarify.

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Paul — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:56:53 GMT

Am I missing something? I can't find prices anywhere on the SMSOfficer site. Surely you can find this out before signing up?

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Sujay — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:06:33 GMT

Very nicely written... and images really made the magic!! Hats off..

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David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:51:42 GMT

I agree with the excellent solution but the pricing is higher than I will pay.

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hiten — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:25:47 GMT

Outlook Mobile Services would have been a fantastic way to leverage Microsoft's existing mobile / VoIP / messaging / voice recognition capabilities in a highly relevant way.

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Shawn — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:31:51 GMT

Quick question, I know that the message are automatically forwarded to your phone, but when it does this, it "reads" the message in my personal folder, so most of the time I have no idea when people send me email messages until I individually check everyone in my SMS box, which could usually be over 300 per day. Currently I also have set a rule to automatically place messages send "To" me to automatically go into my personal mailbox. My question is "Is their a rule or setting somewhere to not necessarily forward the email to my phone, but copy it so I still have the email showing in my Inbox." Is there a rule I can set to not make these message show up as read once they've been forwarded to my phone?

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dboabes — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:03:49 GMT

We are an SMS provider in Central and Eastern Europe, one of the most experienced in the region (started operations in 2002). How could we register to become a provider for Outlook Mobile Service? We can deliver significant lower prices (as low as 75% lower than smsofficer) and guaranteed quality (we have direct connections with the mobile operators). (dan at simplus.ro)

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Drawk — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:48:55 GMT

I setup an account and sent out 2 test messages (different people) and both got the message but I never got either reply. I then read their "Support" Section and found "In some cases, mainly in the USA and Canada the mobile operators do not allow to set the correct sender ID and thus the recipient needs to manually type the reply number or select from his address book." Here is the problem - the person sending the reply assumes that their message will get to me and it doesn't AND they see no error. So if I use the SMSOfficer system, people replying think I get their reply message when in fact it gets lost. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Come on, this is beta software and SMSOfficer should clearly mark it beta software right on their main webpage! Lost replies without error message/error notification! Please...

I emailed tech support and they said: "This issue is known and unfortunately the US mobile carriers do not allow setting the sender's mobile number."

Can someone send me an email when this thing actually works?

re- sms

steve nelson — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:46:46 GMT

i've just started using sms. i set up a rule to forward messages from a couple of people and it works, mostly.

on forwarded messages, i only get the sender and subject

line, no message body - but if i send a message directly from outlook to my phone # the entire message comes thru to my phone??? any ideas?

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Pero — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:50 GMT

Is there any way to use Outlook VBA to send sms. It would be very helpful.

Tnx.

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nileknight — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:03:06 GMT

Is there a way to use Messaging on the Phone itself to send messages using smsofficer?

Reason, Cingular charges 25 cents per international sms, which is a lot compared to about 6 cents from smsofficer.

Of course I have outlook on the phone.

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Baisong — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:42:33 GMT

No. User cannot use the account from SMSOfficer to send text message directly from phone. User has to configure the SMSOfficer account on his Outlook 2007 and send from there.

Regards,

Baisong Wei