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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

More about our example environment


In the last chapter we reviewed the current environment at Lisa Jane Designs and found they already had infrastructure in place that we can use. This includes a good quality network, two suitable Active Directory Domain Controllers, and a File Server that would be ideal for use as a File Share Witness.

Network diagram

The following diagram shows the planned configuration of the servers and associated network subnets:

As shown in the diagram, you will see we will be using the following three subnets:

  • 192.168.7.0/24: as the perimeter network, with a firewall protecting internal clients from unauthorized access

  • 192.168.8.0/24: as the internal network, that is used by internal servers and workstations and will include our Exchange Servers

  • 192.168.9.0/24: as the Database Availability Group (DAG) replication network, allowing us to segregate replication traffic within the DAG from the client networks

In the diagram, we also see the following current and...