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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

The purpose of Exchange ActiveSync policies


As some of the most popular consumer devices, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch present a significant risk of misuse and theft, and a common problem with most mobile devices, that they can easily be lost or misplaced.

Therefore, ActiveSync security policies have a critical purpose in helping ensure that not only can devices be restricted to conform with company policies but also be secured so that password and lockout policies are enforced.

For example, many e-mail messages contain confidential information or sensitive messages containing data covered by various legislation, such as EU Data Protection regulations, and the organization may have a duty to ensure that the data is held securely. Policies are therefore very important to ensure that information on devices is protected by security measures such as, at a minimum, numeric passcodes and having rules in place to ensure the device cannot be broken into through trial and error.

In other scenarios...