Exchange 2007: smartphone syncing options

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Consider a deployment of Exchange 2007. OWA is deployed and working well. Users want to sync their smartphones with their Exchange account (mail, contacts, calendar mostly). The Exchange configuration details on the phones are using the webmail.company.com public OWA address.

Questions:

  • are there options for enabling/disabling sync for smartphones (iPhone specifically, but considering Blackberry also)
  • is there a way to specify whether they’re able to sync or not based on their address (e.g. allow syncing on via LAN address, but not on a public address?)

Answer

  1. You can configure separate ActiveSync policies (a default of disabled and a second one for enabled) in the Exchange Management Console -> Organizationl Configuration -> Client Access. If you make the default disabled you would just need to assign the “enabled” policy to the mailbox accounts which you want to allow to sync.
  2. I’m not aware of any way to restrict this through policy and I’m not sure why you would want to. You could just block it at the firewall I suppose.

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Source : Link , Question Author : p.campbell , Answer Author : djhowell

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