iPhone and Exchange on internal network

[skoff]

Hi Oh iPhone gurus...

I am running a quick trial to evaluate the iPhone for our business and I need a bit of help...

We have an exchange server (2003) but it doesn't have OWA / OMA / Active Sync published on the Internet (will be buying a new server soon to do that a bit more securely), meaning that we can only sync mobile devices to it either via the desktop install of Outlook, or when the device is connected to the internal network (this is what I do with my mob 6 device).

I have a wireless access point in my office and the trial iPhone connects to it fine, but it won't sync to the server, regardless of if I give it the internal server name, or the internal IP address. There don't seem to be a great deal of options to change.

Am I on a wild goose chase, or is there something I am missing? Something like a hosts file... Anybody done this?

Thanks guys

[telford_mike]

Your iPhone can't authenticate against Active Directory. Exchange won't let it see the Exchange folders.

[Ordinary_Chap]

You need a 3rd party solution if you want to properly get the device in your network (there are several out there if you have the budget).

You also need to consider the Iphone as a mobile computer and as such you need to consider the security implications unless you don't mind confidential email/docs/contacts potentially going missing (some companies don't, I wasn't been sarcastic).

[skoff]

Thought I was on to a losing wicket there... Oh well. In the meantime I have set up a gmail account and a forwarding to that, and synced the calendar info via the desktop - it actually works quite well for a demo.

Not too worried about the e-mail security to be honest... No worse than losing a laptop. Plus I understand you can get an app that will allow you to remotely delete the contents of the phone should the need arise.

The iPhone really is a lovely thing to use, and this comes from an anti-fanboy (if such a thing exists)

Thanks for the replies