If you start SimpleSYN for the first time a configuration wizard will be called up immediately with which you can set up and configure SimpleSYN in only a few steps.

Run the configuration wizard on all computers.

Step 1) Configuration of the main computer (server)

Please configure your main computer (server) first and select then the entry “This is the SimpleSYN main computer (server)”. Click on “next” and wait until the setup of the main computer (server) is completed.

Hint: In case you have several Outlook profiles you first have to choose your Outlook profile in step one.

SimpleSYN configuration wizard	Configure your main computer (server) first	Setup completed

Firewall configuration for the main computer (server):
 
SimpleSYN recognizes automatically when the Windows Firewall has been activated. Please click on “Activate SimpleSYN” to enter the main computer (server) in the exceptions of Windows Firewall.
Under Windows Vista you will see after the release an additional dialogue for the account control of the user.
Please click here on “Permit/Allow”. Please make sure as well that no additional Personal Firewall is blocking the SimpleSYN server.

Firewall

Step 2) Configuration of the client computers

In the next step you configure all the client computers. Choose the entry “This is a SimpleSYN client computer”. In the following drop down list which is called “Server computer name” all found PCs in your network will get listed up. Please choose from there your configured main computer (server) or enter the server computer name yourself. After that the connection to the main computer will get controlled.

Hint: The server computer name is the NET BIOS name, alternatively the DNS name for the server.
The server computer name will be shown to you during the setup of the main computer (server) at the end of the configuration wizard.

After a connection to the main computer (server) has been made you can choose in the following page the Outlook folders that are meant to get synchronized automatically. Click in the checkbox before the folder to define the direction of the synchronization. If the arrow points in both directions then the chosen folder gets synchronized by the server as well as by the client. Another click changes the direction of the synchronization. If the arrow points to the left then the folder gets synchronized by the server only to the client. If the arrow points to the right then the folder gets synchronized only by the client to the server.

After the selection of the folders please click on “next” to finish the setup. After this SimpleSYN is immediately available for the first synchronization.

Detailled information concerning the configuration can be found in the section Settings for the synchronization.

05 - Select client-computer	06 - The connection to the main computer will get controlled	07 - Choose the Outlook folders that are meant to get synchronized automatically

08 -  If the arrow points in both directions then the chosen folder gets synchronized by the server as well as by the client.	09 - If the arrow points to the left then the folder gets synchronized by the server only.	10 - If the arrow points to the right then the folder gets synchronized by the client only.