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<\/a>A couple of months back, my colleague James Simmonds<\/a> wrote about a free Microsoft Office SMS Add-in<\/a> (MOSA) which allows the sending (but not receipt) of text messages from within the Outlook 2003 client (in this context, SMS is Short Message Service – not Systems Management Server). I finally downloaded MOSA this afternoon and it looks good.<\/p>\n

MOSA can only send messages using a GSM<\/a> mobile handset that supports the Protocol Description Unit (PDU) standard. Initially, I attempted to send a message using a standard modem (without success – generating a “the modem does not support messages in PDU format” message) but once I paired my notebook PC with a Nokia 6310i via Bluetooth, everything jumped into life.<\/p>\n

For anyone wondering (as I was), what exactly the PDU format is, I found some further information about SMS and the PDU format<\/a> as well as a PDU string analyser and converter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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