[itdiscuss] iPhone and Exchange 2003 Active Sync

[dave@bitbud]

The IPhone does not require you to have an ISA server to synchronize.
ISA is not required for at all.  However, having some sort of firewall
in place is highly recommended.

Dave Waters
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Lee, Jason wrote:
> Does the iphone require ISA?  
> 
>  
> 
> The iphone enterprise guide reads:
> 
>  Exchange ActiveSync Setup
> 
> Network configuration
> 
> * Check to ensure port 443 is open on the firewall. (Note: If your
> company allows Outlook Web Access, port 443 is most likely already open
> on your firewall.)
> 
> * On the Front-End Server, verify that a server certificate is installed
> and enable SSL for the Exchange ActiveSync virtual directory (require
> basic SSL authentication).
> 
> * On the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server,
> verify that a server certificate is installed and update the public DNS
> to properly resolve incoming connections.
> 
> * On the ISA Server, create a Web listener as well as an Exchange Web
> client access publishing rule according to Microsoft documentation. This
> is a necessary step in enabling Exchange ActiveSync. 
> 
> * For all firewalls and network appliances, set the Idle Session Timeout
> to 30 minutes (check your Microsoft Exchange documentation for
> alternative heartbeat and timeout intervals).
> 
>  
> 
> -jason
> 
>  
> 
> From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dolan, Richard
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:09 PM
> To: IT Discussion Forum
> Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] iPhone and Exchange 2003 Active Sync
> 
>  
> 
> Apple has great directions on their website (on the right side bar of
> the iPhone page). Note that the iPhone will also work seamlessly with
> the remote wipe feature, etc. Other than the general buggy-ness of the
> iPhone 2.0 software, the continued lack of cut-copy-paste, the lack of
> tasks (zenbe is a decent substitute), and the fact that it won't work at
> all with our ChMS, it's nice. (The Exchange Mail portion is an 8 out of
> 10, Calender is a 7 out of 10, and Contacts are a 4 out of 10 because
> they make the whole address book thing slow & cause random reboots.)
> 
> Okay, I've gotten off of the original topic, sorry, I'm just hatin' my
> iPhone this week.
> 
> 
> On 8/15/08 7:16 PM, "Tim Larson" <tlarson at mtw.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To get an iPhone working with Exchange:
> 
> 1. Set up OWA with an SSL certificate.  Don't use a wildcard SSL
> certificate - ActiveSync on Windows Mobile devices doesn't handle
> wildcard SSL certs properly.  Make sure that OWA is accessible
> externally.
> 
> 2. Go into the settings in Exchange Administrator for the user in
> question and make sure their account is allowed to use Mobile Devices
> (each account can have OWA, Mobile Device use, IMAP, and POP enabled or
> disabled).
> 
> 3. Make sure the iPhone has version 2.0 installed.  The 3G iPhones come
> with this out of the box, whereas the older iPhones need to be upgraded.
> This is a free upgrade for anyone with the iPhone, and it's a $20 or so
> upgrade for anyone with the iPod touch.
> 
> 4. Set up the iPhone with Exchange.  It's very straighforward - you add
> a new email account to the iPhone, tell it that it's an exchange server,
> then give it the server name, username, and password, and you're done.
> 
>    Tim Larson
>    Mission to the World
> 
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