[itdiscuss] iPhone and Exchange 2003 Active Sync

Ed Buford ebuford at gccwired.com
Mon Aug 18 12:07:03 EDT 2008


Jason did you enable IMAP?


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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of dave at bitbud
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] iPhone and Exchange 2003 Active Sync

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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