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iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment

By : Steve Goodman
Book Image

iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment

By: Steve Goodman

Overview of this book

With the recent boom in the smartphone market, users are demanding access to the latest consumer technology in the business, and that means you need to be able to integrate Apple's iPhone and iPad into your business in a way you can manage. Microsoft's Exchange Server provides a solution for integrating iPhone into your business and this book will show you exactly how to implement this solution. iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment takes you through the basics of Apple mobile devices, and teaches you how to plan a basic, highly available Exchange environment. You will then be taught how to secure your environment, provision and manage iDevices. Have you been tasked with getting iPhones into the hands of your business executives, and need to ensure they can reliably and securely access corporate email? This book will teach you what you need to know about getting Exchange 2010 set up and then help you deploy iPhones in a secure, manageable way. Starting with the basics, you'll learn about what Apple mobile devices have to offer and how they have evolved into devices suitable for business use. If you're new to Exchange Server 2010, you'll learn the basics of Microsoft's world leading messaging suite, before learning how to plan, install and configure a highly available Exchange environment. You will also understand how to configure Office 365 and learn how both can be configured to apply policies to iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch. You'll also learn how to configure advanced features, like certificate authentication, how to create and deploy configuration profiles for devices and how to manage your devices once they are in the hands of your users. After reading this book, you will be confident about introducing Apple mobile devices into your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter we've covered the basics of the products available, from the iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and the Exchange Server 2010 options available including on-premises deployment of Exchange Server 2010 and Office 365.

The iOS range is a well-developed line of products and has a suitable mobile device to suit most needs. Exchange Server 2010 provides a stable, reliable environment for a messaging platform and is the market leader. Office 365 makes deployment options even easier and like the on-premises version of Exchange it is also compatible with iOS devices, as it utilizes the same Exchange ActiveSync technologies.

Additionally, Office 365 provides some great features, such as the bundling of other Microsoft collaboration products, Lync Online, and SharePoint Online, both of which support the iPhone.

We've learnt through the course of this chapter about the basic protocol that connects iOS devices and Exchange together—Exchange ActiveSync. This protocol uses standard mobile data connections and the same protocol that websites use to synchronize data and provide push mail to phones, whilst using a relatively small amount of data and saving on battery life.

Finally, we've learnt the basics of why we should use provisioning techniques to deploy configuration to iOS devices and introduced the basic techniques used.

In the next chapter, we'll learn about putting the core infrastructure in place to support Exchange and iOS devices as pre-requisites for a successful implementation.