There aren’t a whole lot of details floating around about Apple’s implementation of ActiveSync on the iPhone yet, but I stumbled across an article from last week that I missed on the Exchange Team Blog that had a few surprise details.

Obviously, we have been working together for a while on their implementation. What can we say today? They are doing Direct Push and most of the Exchange 2003 SP2 policies (including remote wipe). They are doing email, calendar and contacts sync, and global address lists. While previously you could get you Exchange mail on an iPhone via IMAP, getting contacts and calendar required a tethered sync through iTunes. Doing it wirelessly will be much better (IMHO).

Particularly noteworthy, Apple will implement a couple key Exchange 2007 EAS features.

  1. Autodiscover – This means those of you running Exchange 2007 can now make it super easy for your users to configure their iPhones to sync with Exchange. Here’s what you do as an admin. All the iPhone user does is enter his/her email address and password. Pretty cool.
  2. HTML Mail – See your mail in its full HTML glory. Obviously the iPhone shows mail in HTML format today, so it’s safe to assume your Exchange mail will retain its HTML formatting on the iPhone as well.

I don’t have a lot more to say about the iPhone. Perhaps after I’m worked with it a bit I’ll share some more thoughts.

More of the Article can be found here.

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