Enterprise IT: How to manage Apple iPhones with Microsoft Exchange

“When iPhones first started trickling into my office, I was a little apprehensive. At the time they only supported IMAP and POP3 for e-mail, which can be tricky to support in an Exchange environment. Two generations later, the iPhone has become a robust enterprise-grade mobile device,” Michael Scalisi reports for PC World.

“Slowly but surely, my users have been migrating from their BlackBerrys to iPhones. I’m happy to help them make the transition. iPhones are simply easier to integrate with Microsoft Exchange,” Scalisi reports.

“ActiveSync on the iPhone is natively supported on both Exchange Server 2003 and 2007,” Scalisi reports. “If you are already running an OWA server configured to use SSL with port 443 open on your firewall, you have already done the hard part.”

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