iphone/microsoft exchange/outlook questions
Hi, My wife is interested in an iPhone, but uses an exchange/outlook. What kind of support is there now? How does it work? how reliable is it?
My understanding is when you sync via iTunes it can pull in contacts, calender and email. Is this correct? Is there a "push" service for exchange email and is it reliable (anyone out there use it yet?) any info would be great, our verizon contract ends in a month, and I'd really really really like to go buy 2 new iphones......
thanks
My understanding is when you sync via iTunes it can pull in contacts, calender and email. Is this correct? Is there a "push" service for exchange email and is it reliable (anyone out there use it yet?) any info would be great, our verizon contract ends in a month, and I'd really really really like to go buy 2 new iphones......
thanks
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You can connect to echange mail through imap. For most companies imap is as good as saying there is no exchange support. Mainly because imap doesn't allow the company to remotely enforce security on your phone, like requiring a PW and it doesn't allow your company to remotely delete your imbox in the even the phone is lost or the employee is fired.
Another point is the syncing on the iPhone. syncing every 15 minutes is the best the iPhone can do and for many business types that isn't enough.
Another is iTunes. It probably isn't an issue for most but if her company blocks itunes as mine does it causes a whole other set of issues with using the phone for work.
More info:
http://www.visto.com/news/releases/07.06.28_iphone.asp
http://arstechnica.com/journals/appl...nge-for-iphone
Just my 2 cents...
--DotComCTO
If Apple/ATT get reliable exchange support in the next couple months they'll sell a couple more iPhones. if they dont Ill end up staying on verizon and a simple phone, and my wife will end up with a Q or somehting.....
I know my wife gets a company discount on verizon phones, and apple wont do that either...
Note that Blackberry uses a non-ip connection (very similar to an SMS) to tell the phone that it has a message. That is how they keep the battery life good. Trying to hold open a TCP/IP connection to provide IMAP-IDLE support (the IMAP version of "push") is very expensive on the battery (because it can't shut down the radio). I don't know how Apple can get around this problem without having heavy support from AT&T and possibly the hardware vendors.
I would expect that Apple would use Exchange ActiveSync for corporate integration. This works similarly to Blackberry Enterprise Server. It is very efficient and only wakes up a device when there is new data to sync. The battery drain will be less than syncing every 15 mins.
--DotComCTO
(from my iPhone)
The Blackberry is a nice solution to this problem, but does require that you setup a special agreement with the carrier that allows Blackberry's servers to talk give notifications to the device outside the data band.
There is no magic software fix for this. The iPhone already has the hardware, but the issue is on the carrier's protocol side.
Only the day before yesterday I decided my trouble with Exchange emails and it would be naturally that this application to use this applcation for resolving situation here - repair edb file.
Why are your responding to a nearly-three-year-old thread (bad form there) with a horribly written (really... the English is nearly incomprehensible) advertisement (another bad point there) for a product that would not solve any of the problems outlined here (yet another bad point) and (for the bonus bad point) would not even run on MacOS X in the first place?