“Here’s a few questions bouncing around the IT world about the iPad, followed by my best attempt to answer them,” John C. Welch reports for Computerworld.
“Will the iPad support Exchange? That was certainly the first thing I asked when I spoke with my sources at Apple: Will the iPad have the same support for Exchange, VPNs, remote wipe, and so forth that the iPhone enjoys. The answer from my man in Cupertino? ‘Yes, as per the iPhone’ was the reply,” Welch reports. “This should surprise no one, as there was no logical reason whatsoever for Apple to cripple those features in the iPad and the iPad alone when it shares the OS with Apple’s other mobile handhelds.”
So, we can expect to find the following in the iPad:
• Exchange ActiveSync support, including remote wipe
• The same level of VPN support as the iPhone
• The “Find my iPhone” feature
• The same support for policy configurations as the iPhone
“My Apple source wasn’t sure if the iPad has the same encryption support found in the iPhone 3GS, although it seems likely, as the hardware should be able to handle it. Assuming that guess is right, the iPad will be at least as compatible with a corporate network as an iPhone,” Welch reports. “It will not, as some of the more breathless screeds have intimated, be an unmanageable, uncontrollable blight.”
There’s much more in the full article – recommended – here.
