I'm not sure how other people's experiences have been but we started rolling out iPhones to users syncing with Exchange over Activesync quite some time ago. Since then, we have been plagued by weird problems where meetings disappear from the iPhone and even issues where meeting requests were being constantly sent out automatically (we checked the logs and all the messages originated from the iPhone). Unfortunately, it is impossible to get support on this since Microsoft points the finger back and Apple and vice versa. It's gotten to the point where we tell users not to trust the iPhone calendar and to only accept meetings requests directly from Outlook.
I have been using a Droid ever since it came out and sync to Exchange via a third party app (Touchdown) and have had none of the calendar issues iPhone users have. I also heard that 2.2 is supposed to have better Activesync support out of the box including support for some security policies.
I am not saying that all Enterprise users have problems with syncing their iPhones with Exchange, but just wanted to share the experience my company has had.
@jhow Exchange calendaring sucks, flat out. My phone is more reliable than my computer in terms of having meetings up-to-date, but i see double entires and missing items all the time, on all platforms.
@UnixSystemsEngineer you're doing it wrong then. no calendar issues at all in the past three years running exchange. if you are relying on desktop sync to mobile device then that is where the fail is.
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I'm not sure how other people's experiences have been but we started rolling out iPhones to users syncing with Exchange over Activesync quite some time ago. Since then, we have been plagued by weird problems where meetings disappear from the iPhone and even issues where meeting requests were being constantly sent out automatically (we checked the logs and all the messages originated from the iPhone). Unfortunately, it is impossible to get support on this since Microsoft points the finger back and Apple and vice versa. It's gotten to the point where we tell users not to trust the iPhone calendar and to only accept meetings requests directly from Outlook.
I have been using a Droid ever since it came out and sync to Exchange via a third party app (Touchdown) and have had none of the calendar issues iPhone users have. I also heard that 2.2 is supposed to have better Activesync support out of the box including support for some security policies.
I am not saying that all Enterprise users have problems with syncing their iPhones with Exchange, but just wanted to share the experience my company has had.
@jhow
Exchange calendaring sucks, flat out. My phone is more reliable than my computer in terms of having meetings up-to-date, but i see double entires and missing items all the time, on all platforms.
@UnixSystemsEngineer
Yeah, since it doesn't work right on their iPhones but it does on their Android devices, clearly Exchange is to blame.
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Err, what?? A piece of logic is missing there.
@UnixSystemsEngineer you're doing it wrong then. no calendar issues at all in the past three years running exchange. if you are relying on desktop sync to mobile device then that is where the fail is.