Comments on: Microsoft Exchange 2003 Direct Push and the Apple iPhone 3G

By: Rob Thompson

Rob Thompson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:32:02 +0000

That article was the best support I’ve seen anywhere for ensuring that exchange is properly configured, and helped relieve me of a right headache.

Rob (Mend My Computer)

By: Patrick Byrne

Patrick Byrne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:54:14 +0000

Thanks! I spent all of yesterday trying to get this to work for a client who was heading off on holiday today.

Everything checked out and I could log on to OMA via a browser but there was no sign of mail on the iPhone.

Step 5 – Configure IIS was the missing link. Enabled SSL on Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync and everything burst into life.

Brilliant!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:23:30 +0000

Huge thanks for posting this on your blog. I deployed my first iPhone today
Jamie

By: Khanh

Khanh — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:11:46 +0000

How come no one else mentioned the fact that Wifi has to be off.. that small piece of information is all I needed. Thanks man.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:05:25 +0000

Absolutely the best and most helpful document I’ve found on this subject. Thank you very much!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:11:19 +0000

>>mobiles2money
Not sure what to tell you buddy. Reinstalling Exchange is massively painful (especially if you have mailboxes already established), but it may be that something has gone awry with your install. You shouldn’t really see 404’s from what I can gather. I’d have to see it to help further. You’re not in Sydney by any chance?

By: mobiles2money

mobiles2money — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:08:23 +0000

Having the same problems as IIS_Man, i.e.:

When I browse to our exchange/OMA I get the following: After logging in:
“Item no longer exists. The item you are attempting to access may have been deleted or moved.”

I have pretty much tried averything I can find throughout the various forums etc. and then found that in the log files, a lot of 404s are cropping up so I assume a page can’t be found somewhere. Any ideas?

By: zamri

zamri — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:12:49 +0000

I have iPhone 3GS & exchange 2003 SP2 behind sit behind the firewall and I have front-end server. Follow the steps and it works!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:24:05 +0000

>> Troy
Not sure if you’ve already solved this problem but for what it’s worth I think you are facing a limitation built into the iPhone itself – it seemsto me you simply can’t do what you are trying to do with the kit you have. Maybe in a future version though…

>> Scott
All of the users I have dealt with have had no issue with the PIN when the security risks and advantages are laid out to them, particularly “that if someone got your phone and it wasn’t locked they could send emails as you, or log into your internet banking” (okay we might be stretching a bit on the banking thing but as I said, everyone has fallen into line so far. To make the process as smooth as possible I get users to set their PIN before trying to setup the connection (this is a phone PIN and not a SIM PIN).

>> smary
While it should all work without SSL can I recommend in the strongest possible terms that you don’t set it up this way. Worst case you can self-generate your SSL certificate for no money and simply accept the warning when the phone prompts you that the certificate couldn’t be validated. That said, presuming you are typing your psassword correctly (d’oh) it is theoretically possible to not use SSL with the exact same setup as I’ve described minus the certificate stuff.

By: meb

meb — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:27:11 +0000

nice blog, congratulations!