Comments on: A Few iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Gotchas

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:43:28 +0000

My company's email server can only be access via VPN. I have the VPN set up. But the exchange sever is where I am having trouble with. To use Outlook @ home, we use following set up: exchange server address is 192.168.0.1 and username & password. I want to know whether this can work with Itouch exchange mail set up.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:44:50 +0000

I use Exchange sync on my phone – and sync to work mail and calendar no problems.

Today I tried to setup my wife's iPhone 3GS to her work's exchange with peculiar results: calendar entries sync OK. The email folder of her work email are visible – but there are no emails in any of the folders, and sending an email doesn't work either?

Any ideas?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:29:33 +0000

Thanks for the article! Glad that there are people out there that have a realistic view on the iphone! I love my iphone but the calendar, Todo and Notes functions are still very poor. Especially in combination with an Exchange server there is no third party calendar available! (at least not yet… I am waiting…)
One question is bothering me every day: Within ActiveSync I had the opportunity to set peak times and tell my device not to sync my emails outside the peak times. Means I had a quiet night without muting my phone. Is there a way to handle that on my iphone? Did you ever experience the same problem?
Thanks! Stefan

By: BobL_NJ

BobL_NJ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:09:37 +0000

Great article. Our school district uses mobile.domainname instead of oma.domainname, but the clincher was to enter something into the domain name field. My Outlook Web Access did not require a domain name and I didn't remember what it was until I tried to access a server via remote desktop.

ActiveSync kept rejecting my password before I added the domain option. You would think it would have rejected my username instead — I might have figured it out quicker.

By: BobL_NJ

BobL_NJ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:09:37 +0000

ActiveSync kept rejecting my password before I added the domain option. You would think it would have rejected my username instead — I might have figured it out quicker.

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:46:36 +0000

I looked into this site, and it appears to be a valid Microsoft site. However, I cannot recommend using it, since it requires a valid login name and password along with your exchange server name. Yes, you could create a test account, but most folks will be tempted to enter their real username and password.

Do not do this!!!

By: Steve Gandolfi

Steve Gandolfi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:10:52 +0000

Saved me a lot of time and trouble:

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

https://testexchangeconnectivity.com/

By: Michael Massey

Michael Massey — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:16:56 +0000

Did you try the update on the mail application. The middle one between new and whatever… this will force the server to check for new mail.

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:13:06 +0000

Stephen:

I did a google search on Exchange reconciliation on the iphone and one of the results was your page here. I have a question that I cannot find an answer to.

I have no issues with EAS and my Exchange Host; email is pushed down in about under a minute or so, not bad at all. However, when I have deleted or moved entries while in Outlook connected to Exchange, even hours later the emails I moved or deleted are still sitting in my iphone mail box.

How do I get them to reconcile with Exchange???

Thanks.

By: Nicki Hattingh

Nicki Hattingh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:34:33 +0000

Brilliantly helpful procedure – thankyou. Not only do you say what to do, but you put it all into context and in a layman's language that even I could understand. I now have emails if and when I want them and I understand how to facilitate what I require.

many thanks – Nicki Hattingh