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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

Chapter 8. Sharing Mailboxes and Calendars

The ability to share mailboxes and calendars in Exchange Server 2010 is a feature used by many companies and is typically a key feature of Microsoft Exchange to enable better collaboration in a business environment.

In this chapter, we'll be examining what functionality shared mailboxes can provide and look more into the settings they are typically used in and how clients connect to them.

As it's not all plain-sailing when connecting iOS devices like the iPhone to a Shared Mailbox, we'll examine the type of problems you will come across when attempting to provide access to Shared Mailboxes to mobile users, and how you can overcome those issues with a variety of different methods.

Calendaring is another key business tool and one of the core functionalities in Exchange that sets it apart from competing products.

Microsoft has a much more complete story when it comes to sharing calendars with non-Microsoft platforms like Apple mobile devices, and Exchange...