Comments on: iPhone and Exchange Server

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:59:37 +0000

@ gregr: I know this doesn’t pertain to iPhone but you mentioned BlackBerry sync. BlackBerry DOES synchronize contacts (as well as just about everything) wirelessly and has done this for quite some time. Contacts, app configurations, memos, tasks, messages, calendar entries, etc are all synchronized wirelessly unless disabled by the company’s BlackBerry administrator.

By: Carlos F

Carlos F — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:53:15 +0000

Everything was syncing beautiful, my Exchange server corporate email acct and my contacts from the day I connected my iphone last month. The problems started with the new update a couple of weeks ago. Since the update, I friggin can’t get all of my Outlook contacts to sync correctly. I had all 1,500+ contacts and now I can only sync about 500 of my contacts. I did a restore/sync reset today & now I can’t get my exchange server to connect :(. MAC…you’re losing me!!

By: gregr

gregr — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:23:17 +0000

J.P. - the gating factor is whether your IT guys will enable IMAP on your Exchange server, and expose the necessary ports through your firewall. Once that is done, it works for me…

By: J.P.

J.P. — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:14:07 +0000

gregr: i bought i phone day one. I have had the Iphone since day one, love it. However, I still have been unsuccessful in setting up my corporate email. We run MS Exchange server 2003 and Windows XP.

I have heard so much back and forth about YES, it’s compatible, and NO, Apple made sure it wouldn’t work.

However, all over google there’s posts and blogs about folks getting it to work, your blog being one of those that are PRO ES:

http://www.talkiphone.com/forums/iphone-chat/430-connect-iphone-exchange-2003-a.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=534

http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2007/09/28/iphone-and-exchange-server/

Point being, if anyone has actually done this, I will buy them a plane ticket to sunny South Florida to hook me up…

Anyone?

By: gregr

gregr — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:07:59 +0000

peer - thanks…that must have changed since I last took a close look at the Blackberry.

By: peer

peer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:11:23 +0000

>>(unlike Blackberry, which will only sync calendar wirelessly, not contacts)<<

This is not correct. Blackberry syncs both Calender & Contacts wirelessly, certainly does with MS Exchange.

By: gregr

gregr — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:10:45 +0000

Ryan - you need to map your “sent”, “deleted”, etc folders on the iphone to be the appropriate server folders on Exchange; you do this from the iphone mail setup somewhere. If you google, you’ll find detailed instructions how to do all that.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:07:10 +0000

Greg Thanks for all your help! Deleted emails is working for me know, but they seem to be deleted completely from the server not sent to the deleted items folder like specified in advanced settings. Oh well, they stay on the Iphone trash if i need them.

Just to clarify this only works for deleted emails. Correct? If i send an email from my iphone it will not show up in sent emails on the server, but only on sent on the actuall iphone. Is there a way for sent emails from the Iphone to show up in the sent file on the server? Thanks again for you help!

By: gregr

gregr — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:56:20 +0000

Ryan - the only thing it does is flush out deleted messages so you won’t see them in Outlook and other apps. Everything else is done by the iphone itself…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:54:16 +0000

So I leave it running in the background, and then how long should it take see a sent eamil show up?