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    Exchange Update Fixes Potential iPhone Mail Issues

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    Peter Galli
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    June 28, 2007
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      Microsoft has just released an update to Exchange 2007 that should fix issues that could have prevented Apples new iPhone from receiving mail from Exchange Server 2007.

      The Redmond, Wash., software maker released June 28 the third update to Exchange Server 2007, known as Rollup 3, which addresses many of the issues customers have been experiencing with Apple Mac Mail, just ahead of the release of Apples iPhone on June 29.

      The update is expected to address the many issues Exchange 2007 users have been having, including with Mac Mail and the fact that when they access their mailboxes on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server, certain IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) clients cannot open the bodies of the e-mail messages, which triggers an error message.

      This fix is important as the iPhone will work with Exchange Server via IMAP4, Keith McCall, chief technology officer of Azaleos and a former Exchange executive, told eWEEK.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about the iPhone and other illegal immigrants to the enterprise.

      “Exchange 2007 has had some difficulties with the IMAP4 protocol implementation, which are at least partially expected to be addressed with Exchange 2007 Rollup 3. We are currently testing these fixes to see that they do address the issue with Mac Mail,” he said.

      However, McCall did point out that he has not yet tested synchronization with an iPhone so could not say for certain that these issues applied to the iPhone, although comments from people inside Microsoft had given that impression. “But, without these fixes, the ability for iPhones to work with Exchange 2007 would have been affected,” he said.

      The update is cumulative, so it replaces the first two updates and will be available via Microsoft Update as well as the Microsoft Download Center. The full documentation and download information can be found here.

      The iPhone could also work better with Exchange 2003 and 2007 if Apple licensed, and ported to the Mac OS X, Microsofts Exchange ActiveSync protocol, a data synchronization service that enables mobile users to gain access to their e-mail, calendar and contacts and retain access to this information while offline.

      While neither Apple nor Microsoft have confirmed any such licensing deal, even if that had already happened it would likely be a matter of months before ActiveSync works on the iPhone, given the technical work involved in making that happen. “If that work had already started, I think we would know this,” McCall said.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifExchange Server 2007: Been there, done that? Click here to read more.

      “Although the ability to access Microsoft Exchange from the iPhone is important to end users, it is not what most of our customers IT departments are concerned about. Rather, IT faces challenges with the iPhone, just as with any mobile device, in provisioning, securing, monitoring and managing 7-by-24 access to e-mail and other critical business applications,” he said. “Every new device added increases the cost and complexity of managing corporate e-mail systems.”

      IT departments face a myriad of challenges when deploying mobile devices, from security to redundancy, which include how to easily activate and deactivate mobile devices that are trying to access enterprise information.

      While the availability of Exchange could be more than 99.9 percent, it is difficult for many IT organizations to maintain or even evaluate mobile access availability, McCall said. He noted that “our estimate is that mobile access availability is typically less than 90 percent due to poorly designed IT infrastructure for mobility, network coverage issues and client software glitches.”

      With regard to reporting, IT departments have difficulty monitoring and reporting on access to enterprise information from mobile devices, he said.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifTo read about how SMBs can get a storage package for Exchange, click here.

      Azaleos upcoming MobileXchange solution, which will debut in July, is designed to address these needs across a wide range of devices, including the iPhone, Microsoft mobile devices and RIM BlackBerry smart phones, McCall said.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, reviews and analysis on mobile and wireless computing.

      Peter Galli
      Peter Galli has been a financial/technology reporter for 12 years at leading publications in South Africa, the UK and the US. He has been Investment Editor of South Africa's Business Day Newspaper, the sister publication of the Financial Times of London.He was also Group Financial Communications Manager for First National Bank, the second largest banking group in South Africa before moving on to become Executive News Editor of Business Report, the largest daily financial newspaper in South Africa, owned by the global Independent Newspapers group.He was responsible for a national reporting team of 20 based in four bureaus. He also edited and contributed to its weekly technology page, and launched a financial and technology radio service supplying daily news bulletins to the national broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which were then distributed to some 50 radio stations across the country.He was then transferred to San Francisco as Business Report's U.S. Correspondent to cover Silicon Valley, trade and finance between the US, Europe and emerging markets like South Africa. After serving that role for more than two years, he joined eWeek as a Senior Editor, covering software platforms in August 2000.He has comprehensively covered Microsoft and its Windows and .Net platforms, as well as the many legal challenges it has faced. He has also focused on Sun Microsystems and its Solaris operating environment, Java and Unix offerings. He covers developments in the open source community, particularly around the Linux kernel and the effects it will have on the enterprise.He has written extensively about new products for the Linux and Unix platforms, the development of open standards and critically looked at the potential Linux has to offer an alternative operating system and platform to Windows, .Net and Unix-based solutions like Solaris.His interviews with senior industry executives include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux operating system, Sun CEO Scot McNealy, and Bill Zeitler, a senior vice president at IBM.For numerous examples of his writing you can search under his name at the eWEEK Website at www.eweek.com.
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