One more thing with this. We are still running Exch 2003. Unlike the BES, a user can have multiple devices assigned to the users mailbox. When you send a wipe command, if the device is on it will wipe. The Web Manger shows the wipe command was received and processed. If you do not "delete" or "remove wipe" for the user, anytime that user reconnects the device it will start a sync and wipe it again. The good thing about that is if a device is stolen or lost and you send a wipe, it will stay there until you remove it so if someone turns on the device 3 months later and tries to connect it will get the wipe.
With Blackberry if you send a kill and the device is off it will not get the command, then you assign a new device to the user that kill goes away. So if the device comes on 3 months later it will not wipe. We have decided to hold off with iPhone, and anything using ActiveSync, until we deploy Exchange 2007. The reporting and management with Exch 2003 is awful so we want this in place. Also the policies in Exch 2007 are more like BES and Good. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you Thanks John. From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you Our testing showed the wipe command went within a couple of minutes. Once iPhone received the command it went blank and sat at the black screen with the Apple. I did this several times and it was less than 5 mins to get to that point. The device is useless until the user plugs it up to iTunes to reload the device. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you Carlos, how long did it take the remote wipe to occur and finish? From clicking the remote wipe button to it being wiped and done. I have heard it can take a couple of hours which would be highly unacceptable. But I would like to hear if others have noticed this as well. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you I have a 2G with the FW 2.0 installed and hooked up on exchange, I've played quite a lot with it. Battery is poor is you have all the features turned on. I've been able to do remote wipes and created an XML file that setup's Exchange and VPN and enforces a PIN on the device. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you It appears to have the basic security options that WM6 has, but doesn't have the ability to have centrally enforced policies (aka WM6.1 + System Center Mobile Device Manager). If you trust your users to keep the device properly secured, then I suppose it's OK. Battery life, apparently, isn't that great when you have ActiveSync on 24x7. Two of my colleagues have returned their iPhones for that reason. I don't know if that's a general issue, or they just had unrealistic expectations. Cheers Ken From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iPhone 3G, Exchange, and you So now that the iPhone 3G has been out a couple of weeks, has anyone seen any more reviews (besides Paul Robichaux <http://www.robichaux.net/blog> 's) of how it behaves in an Exchange shop? Besides the 'coolness'/'wow' factor, would you allow it onto your networks? Has anyone looked at the security/stability aspect of the device, now that the SDK is released and 3rd party apps can be installed on it? Thanks, Wayne _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
