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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
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Preface

Chapter 5. Creating and Enforcing Policies

ActiveSync Mailbox policies allow you, the administrator, to take control of ActiveSync devices and enforce settings, control how the device can be used, and ensure the correct security settings are correctly enforced.

This chapter is intended to give you an introduction to the security policies available in Exchange Server 2010 and Office 365 and show how each of the available security policies apply to devices like the iPhone and iPad.

We'll then cover the practicalities of implementing policies using Exchange Server and Office 365 and finally look at how you might ensure only iOS devices are used in your Exchange organization. We'll break all this up into the following sections:

  • The purpose of security policies

  • Security policies available

  • Creating and managing ActiveSync Mailbox policies

  • Restricting device types

At the end of this chapter, you should be confident in deploying policies to iOS devices, either to a selection of your users or organization...