I just got a new phone yesterday - an HTC Pure. It's a pretty sweet device. I dig the form factor, and we'll see if I can get used to not having an actual keyboard. Right now my (fairly normal for a girl-sized) fingers feel a little big for the screen-based keyboard. In any case, being the geek that I am, the first thing I did upon having the device activated was to set up ActiveSync for my personal e-mail account, which happens to be hosted by Microsoft on Exchange 2010. Next, I went and switched my facebook, twitter, and other accounts over to the new number (normally I'd have ported my old number, but we recently moved to Maryland from Bend, Oregon, and we wanted local cell numbers).

That was last night. This morning when I went to look at my e-mail, I noticed that all of a sudden the twitter feeds that I've subscribed to, along with facebook comments and such things, appeared in my mailbox. My Exchange mailbox. Odd.

So I went and did some googling (not bing-ing much these days, sorry MSFT) for terms like "forward sms e-mail account" and other too general search accounts. I thought it might be device-related, so I searched for ""HTC Pure" forward sms e-mail". No luck. It finally dawned on me that maybe it wasn't the device, but related to the operating system or new features (I'm quick like that). I've used WM 6.0 and 6.1, but hadn't really paid attention to 6.5, much less its integration with Exchange Server 2010, which has JUST RTM'ed and certainly isn't widely deployed at this point.

Ta-dah - when you set up ActiveSync in WM6.5, you might want to pay attention to the options for the folders you're synchronizing - I didn't pay much attention because I've always left all of the boxes there checked. Turns out that I should have paid more attention -- the newest checkbox is Text Messages - now that I have unchecked the box, my SMS messages stay where I want them, on my phone. I imagine I'd love this feature if a) I got fewer text messages, b) I couldn't have my cell phone with me all of the time, and/or c) I didn't send all sorts of twitter/facebook/etc. messages to SMS.

I think this is a really cool feature, it just isn't what I need today. But I'm glad it's there in case I need it tomorrow. :)