Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

ExchangeIS — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:17:52 GMT

Great! More information about Exchange 2003 SP2.

Patrick Tousignant blogs about the new mobile security...

Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

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re: Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

Flaphead — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:30:10 GMT

looks good can't wait to see it in action.

How does this security compare with RIN/Blackbery?

re: Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

Patrick Tousignant — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:20:35 GMT

I don't really know what security features backberries have (I do not own one), so I can't really make a fair comparison.

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re: Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

Sandor Welfing — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:17:21 GMT

Hello Sir,

I wonder if anyone has actually thought this through. There has been a huge deal about this feature but this solution as presented here is far from complete or usable.

One policy for the whole of the Exchange organization???? Corporations such as I work in have many different business units with different needs and requirements spanning many countries. All these business units can comfortably fit into an Exchange organization due to the well thought out way of organizing administrative rights models and per server (if required) policies for the managment of mailboxes and server settings. Overall, Exchange is very flexible across a diverse business landscape.

Why o why would you implement a one size fits all policy for all mobile devices? It seems remarkably out of place compared to the other flexibility embodied in the product.

Rather I would have liked to see Windows Mobile devices be able to join the domain and we can set policies with GPO's against them.

The current proposed method looks like a poor mans hack to try and steal some thunder from the well developed policy model that Blackberry uses. Windows Mobile and Exchange is capable of so much more than the Blackberry platform. Why settle for such a simple solution un-implementable solution?

Sandor.

re: Enforcing security settings on mobile devices with Exchange 2003 SP2

Patrick Tousignant — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:54:57 GMT

We are very aware of that. But...

This is a service pack feature. And in a service pack, as a rule, we do not upgrade the Active Directory schema, so we couldn't add a per user mechanism configurable through GPO.

That said, we did add a way to set the policy XML on each user (read the last paragraph of the post), it's an all-or-nothing deal, so it's not quite perfect, but that's all we could do given our AD restrictions.

The next version of Exchange will have those settings on the user object and be manageable through GPO (or any other policy mechanism that can deal with AD settings). The debate on whether or not to create a Mobile Device AD object is still on-going, but the settings will be configurable, at least, at the user level.

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