Re: Internet access to Exchange for mobile phones.

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you need to enable ActiveSync on the Exchange Server, and setup NAT
on the firewall for SSL (port 443). If you haven't already, get to Exchange
2007 SP1, as ActiveSync works a lot better. It may need to be enabled on a
per user basis as well; it is on by default but some admins turn it off when
setting up users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_ActiveSync

IMHO the reverse proxy isn't necessary, but I found an article about setting
it up for OWA, which will make ActiveSync work as well. I can't vouch for
whether it actually works.

http://www.agix.com.au/blog/2010/06/configure-apache-as-a-reverse-proxy/

As an aside, if you are the Exchange administrator and have remote Outlook
users, explore setting up Outlook Anywhere. Outlook can connect directly
(and securely) to Exchange using HTTPS,  so no VPN is necessary. It works
nicely.

http://tinyurl.com/2vfe6p7

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Roger,
>
> We have a BES server and Blackberrys. I had one until a couple of months
> ago and it died (well sort of; the touch screen became very
> unresponsive. You had to press REALLY hard and then I would come on and
> immediately select what was right under what you were pressing...). Our
> Verizon rep said he could get me the Android-X first day it was
> available and it was cheaper. So they got me a loaner until the
> Android-X came in.
>
> I get the Android-X in and I was wondering how I was going to synch that
> up with our BES and then I found you really didn't need to do anything;
> it connects directly to the Exchange server. Really slick.
>
> That what you are talking about?
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Roger Vicker, CCP
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:24 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: [PCTECH] Internet access to Exchange for mobile phones.
>
> Hello,
>
> I know my way around Domino fairly well but I have one customer that
> switched to Exchange 2007 :'(
>
> I was able to research and setup Apache as a reverse proxy in front of
> OWA so the users could remotely access their email, calendars and
> address books by the web. Now they want to setup an Android based phone
> to access the same things via the built-in (?) Outlook like app. My
> research on what needs to be opened/mapped in the firewall or additional
> Apache directives is very confusing :-(   Does any body have a recipe
> type how-to link on setting this up securely? My alternative is to get
> them to use IMAP and SMTP Auth (port 587) but they will grumble about
> the calendar and address book.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roger Vicker, CCP
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