Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : iPhone

Going Mobile with Microsoft Online Services

paulenglis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:11:00 GMT

Mobile computing and mobile device connectivity is a more popular topic that generates questions for the Microsoft Online Services team. To help answer some of those questions, we’ve launched a Mobility Solutions page on the Microsoft Online Services Web site.

This site contains information about various mobile devices, including:

· Mobility Solutions Description, providing background on all supported mobile devices

· Windows Mobile devices

· RIM BlackBerry devices

· Exchange ActiveSynch devices, such as Nokia and Apple iPhone devices

The site also includes information about promotional offers.

Watch this Team Blog for follow up articles on instructions for setting up and configuring mobile devices to work with Microsoft Online Services.

Mac/iPhone: Connect the iPhone to Microsoft Online Services

kevw@microsoft.com — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:41:00 GMT

The new iPhone 3G that came out last week final enabled Exchange ActiveSync support. As a result, you can now connect your iPhone 3G or the older iPhone with the new 2.0 firmware to connect to Microsoft Online Services.

Simply goto Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Add Account->Microsoft Exchange.

Email: enter your email address
Username: enter your email address
Enter your password and description for the mailbox.
Click Next

Accept the verify certificate pop ups.

You will now see a new screen with an extra blank entry for Server. Enter the OWA address. In beta, this is "red001.mail.microsoftonline.com".

Select the information you want to synchronize, and click on Save.

Note: The above information is provided as-is and is BEST EFFORT supported by the Microsoft Online Support Team