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iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment

By : Steve Goodman
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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.

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iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment
Steve Goodman
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment
iPhone with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Business Integration and Deployment
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to iPhone with Exchange Server 2010
Introduction to iPhone with Exchange Server 2010
Overview of Apple iOS device range and features
Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Overview of Office 365 and Exchange Online
Overview of Exchange ActiveSync
Overview of provisioning
Summary
2
Architecture and Implementation Planning
Architecture and Implementation Planning
Overview of Exchange Server 2010 roles
Capacity planning for Exchange ActiveSync clients
Summary
3
Exchange Server Configuration for iOS Connectivity
Exchange Server Configuration for iOS Connectivity
More about our example environment
Installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Testing client connectivity
Summary
4
Office 365 Configuration for iOS Connectivity
Office 365 Configuration for iOS Connectivity
Sign-up process for Office 365
Domain and DNS configuration
Testing and troubleshooting
Connecting an iOS device to Office 365
Summary
5
Creating and Enforcing Policies
Creating and Enforcing Policies
The purpose of Exchange ActiveSync policies
Exchange ActiveSync policies
Creating and managing ActiveSync Mailbox policies
Restricting device types
Summary
6
Configuring Certificate-based Authentication in Exchange Server 2010
Configuring Certificate-based Authentication in Exchange Server 2010
Overview of certificate-based authentication
Considerations for certificate-based authentication
Installation of the certificate authority
Configuration of the certificate authority
Provisioning and publishing user certificates
Configuring Exchange Server 2010 for certificate-based authentication
Summary
7
Provisioning iOS Client Devices
Provisioning iOS Client Devices
Overview of device Configuration Profiles
Obtaining and installing the iPhone Configuration Utility
Creating Configuration Profiles for users
Deploying Configuration Profiles to devices using the iPhone Configuration Utility
Creating a generic Configuration Profile
Deploying a generic Configuration Profile from the Exchange Server
Summary
8
Sharing Mailboxes and Calendars
Sharing Mailboxes and Calendars
Overview of shared mailboxes
Challenges associated with shared mailboxes
Creating and connecting users to shared mailboxes
Overview of iCal calendar sharing
Configuring iCal calendar sharing
Sharing iCal calendars
Connecting iOS devices to Shared Calendars
Summary
9
iOS Client Device Management
iOS Client Device Management
Identifying iOS devices in use
Troubleshooting connection problems for iOS devices
Using administrator features for disabling and remote wipe of devices
End-user features for remote wipe of devices
Summary

About the Reviewers

Jeff Guillet is an Exchange 2010 Microsoft Certified Master and MVP. He works as a senior consultant for ExtraTeam, a Microsoft Gold Partner, in Pleasanton, CA. Jeff holds MCITP:Enterprise Administrator, MCITP:Enterprise Messaging Administrator, MCITP:Lync Administrator, and CISSP certifications.

Jeff is the co-author of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed. He was the technical editor of the books Lync Server 2010 Unleashed and Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, and also a contributing author of several books including Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, and Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, all books from Sams Publishing.

He also publishes the well-known EXPTA {blog}, a technical blog with over one million readers worldwide. Please visit http://www.expta.com for the latest Exchange news.

Laercio Simoes has 20 years' experience in Software Development. A PhD in Electrical Engineering, he graduated from the Singularity University. He has won multiple awards in several entrepreneur contests.

He runs a startup company (http://www.hpcbrasil.com/) and is currently building a medical platform data platform (http://www.flextracker.com.br/).

This is his first book as a reviewer.

To my wife Gislaine and my kids Maria Clara, Giuseppe, and Miguel.

Henrik Walther is a consultant working with Microsoft Consulting Service (MCS) at Microsoft Denmark. Here his primary working areas is Exchange on-premise and Office 365 solutions for the largest customers in Denmark. He has been in the IT industry for more than 17 years primarily working with Microsoft BackOffice solutions such as Exchange Server. Henrik is usually involved in all phases of the project. More specifically the envisioning, planning, and design phases and often also the deployment and migration phases.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Henrik held the Exchange MVP for eight years and back in 2007, he became a Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange.

In addition to being a consultant at Microsoft, Henrik is a respected Technical Writer. Among other things, he's been on the team that did most of the Exchange 2007 related white papers for Microsoft IT Showcase as well as on the team that created questions for the Exchange 2010 MCP exams. He is currently contracted by Microsoft TechNet Exchange Product group to write content for the core Exchange documentation and the TechNet Wiki.

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