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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

Sign-up process for Office 365


Enrolling with Office 365 is very straightforward, and to get a flavor for what Office 365 offers it's possible to sign up for a trial account.

Three main service plans or options are available for Office 365:

Service Plan

Minimum/Maximum Users

On Premise Integration

Office 365 for Professionals and Small Businesses

1-50

No

Office 365 for Midsize Businesses and Enterprises

1-10,000+

Yes

Office 365 for Education

1-10,000+

Yes

The most basic version, for professionals and small businesses, aimed at less than 25 users is the most limited and doesn't provide some of the more advanced features, but the latter options provide the full feature set.

It's not possible to move between the professionals/small businesses version and midsize business/enterprise/education versions, so if the advanced features like federation, hybrid configurations, directory synchronization, and PowerShell management are likely to be required, it's worth starting with the...