iPhone gets ActiveSync support for Exchange
By Sean Cooper 
posted March 6th 2008 12:42PM
posted March 6th 2008 12:42PM
As was hinted at some days ago, the Cupertino crew decided that the iPhone was finally ready for prime time in belt clips around the nation. Well, great news friends, Enterprise to Apple means Microsoft Exchange and ActiveSync support. We can expect features like Push mail and Contacts, Global Address List, Cisco IPsec VPN, authentication via certificate, and even remote wipe. Also on the table is Salesforce.com's Sales Force Automation CRM Application (SFA) and they've even thrown in support for maps. When can we get our greedy little hands on this you ask? As soon as the next iPhone firmware update rolls out, that's when.
Really Scott, It's a 7 millimeter difference.
Just how tight are your standard issue Steve Jobs hippster skinny jeans?
Did someone mention my beloved UX50? Mine's still ticking. With its old battery it now lasts about 30-40 minutes doing those things. When it was new, it lasted for hours. My Clie is retired due to its ancient OS (essentially todays version of Palm OS) and the fact that it's not a phone. I whish they'd release that form-factor in a smartphone.
Nice - Now I am interested in one of these with activesync support. I will wait for the second revision of course, only suckers buy 1.0!
When I show my fellow drones that I can actually *read* a PDF or DOC on the screen, they fairly swoon with envy. Amazing how the iPhone literally changes into a new phone with just a software update.
I am still wondering when WM 6 will hit my late, lonely (and illegible) BlackJack.
And I can wait 14 minutes for the next e-mail; if it is THAT freakin' important they better call me!
Actually the WM6 update for the blackjack has been out for several weeks now. Do a google search and you can figure out where to download it. It makes the blackjack a much better handset!
But I gave up on my BlackJack months ago as I can actually read the buttons to make a call and make out actual words on an attached PDf file. Plus without the ginormous battery pack, battery life was pathetic.
Cisco VPN? Ahhh, I only use Juniper!
Actually, Juniper's SSL VPN supports several iPhone features, including clientless ActiveSync, NATIVELY! :)
Hi Kevin,
I have been desperately trying to get my iPhone to connect to my corporate network that allows Nortel SSH VPN. Whenever I navigate to the Juniper SSL VPN URL, it appears to access but then gives me an error relating to Safari not allowing popups when I select to start the network connector..
Any ideas? Am I doing this wrong? Should I be configuring this in the VPN settings? If so, how?
It all depends how the SSL VPN is configured. Network Connect, for example, isn't supported (yet) on the iPhone, so you'd need to do Core Access (web rewriter) for Intranet-like web apps, and Email Proxy to remotely access Corp email through the iPhone. Safari is supported for certain features, just like anything - for more details you can check out the Supported Platforms doc for your IVE version.
Is anyone else there a proud iTouch user and sick of having to pay for stuff iPhone users get for free?
am i the only one that finds it very strange that the iphone now has(/will soon hav) great exchange support, but the mac wont? (eg ical has no support at all, mail week and address book a bit week too)
hopefully we will see ical 4 that will add support for this
Any corporate sys admins in here?
Even though ActiveSync and Exchange are great, what are the support resources from Apple dedicated to helping the people in the background make sure their security protocols remain intact and allow the Judas Phone to enter the ecosystem?
I hope it works out, because it's going to look really bad on Apple if a jailbroken phone brings down a corporate network.
I had to laugh as I work in a Fortune 150 (non-IT Corporate job) and have bought my own MacBook. We have had facilities down for days due to a Windows viral infection; my Mac even came to the rescue when the corporate IT folks needed a secure system to D/L a patch from Microsoft a couple of years ago, as the entire office was infected.
@Markcih: At least they were smart enough to grab a system that couldn't be infected, but not rolling updates immediately after release, or learning enough about the installed system to plug up MOST vulnerabilities.
Viral infections, as usual, are successful because of unnecessary services being run. Your case is probably related to the IT staff being too nice with the rest of the employees.
There's enough information available online to ensure that MOST, if not ALL, threats to a corporate environment can be completely avoided.
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Wondering if anyone can help a non-apple person. I don't use exchange server, but I do use Outlook and have been on it for over 10 years. I like the iPhone, but didn't want to lose my sync functionality i have with my M$ Mobile 6 phone. Does this mean that I can get an iphone and sync my outlook calendar, tasks and contacts (pop email)?
according to http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/getready.html
the iPhone will sync contacts, calendar, email with Outlook. It also can support pretty much any POP3 or IMAP email account. Sorry I can't give you any more information, but a quick google will help: "Iphone sync outlook"
With the release of the SDK, if the iPhone can't meet your needs, I'm sure someone will develop the required functionality in a 3rd party application.
What makes anyone think that having ActiveSync support solves the push email, calendar, contacts etc problem ? ActiveSync is not new technology, it has been available since Exchange 2003 and is supported by Windows Mobile, Nokia Eseries devices. Which didn’t seem to make much of a dent to corporate blackberry usage? So what makes anyone think that ActiveSync support on iPhone will give Apple the boost to compete with the Blackberry in the corporate arena?
Along with this the blackberry has the highest level of end-to-end security certification that is attainable. So its frivolous to believe that its anywhere close to competing with the blackberry for corporate usage.