Turn off ActiveSync?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:19, Barsodi.John <john.bars...@igt.com> wrote:
> So scrounging around in the IIS logs I found a few lines from my iPhone with
> the following:
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> DeviceType=iPhone&Cmd=Provision&Log=V
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> So in my ignorance, I’m surmising that the iTunes ‘sync’ of the phone will
> maintain the EAS configuration, including credentials. I’m not familiar
> with iTunes and didn’t expect this behavior…. Especially after wipe + device
> partnership deletion. I was expecting to have to go through the setup
> wizard again, but the restoration of the device put everything back into
> place.
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> Is the only way to prevent it from resyncing with Exchange after a ‘sync’
> with iTunes is to disable the EAS feature on the mailbox and/or disable the
> AD account?
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> Sorry for the newbish questions. Too used to my BB environments.
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> Thanks,
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> JB
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> From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:39 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: uuh... iPhone + EAS + wipe + remove partnership = ?
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> iPhone3G running OS 3.1
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> EX 2007 SP1 RU9
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> I’m evaluating EAS with WinMo and iPhones…. WinMo was a slam dunk, I’ve
> used it for years, expected the same outcome as when I did our eval for use
> with EAS on EX2003SP2 years back.
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> So going through the same motions on the iPhone…I’ve tested this and had it
> happen twice now…
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> Issue the “Perform a remote wipe to clear mobile device data” cmd,
> acknowledged, and received according to EMC. About 5 minutes later I remove
> the mobile device partnership. All actions are successful…
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> iPhone pukes itself back to “Factory” settings. I go back in to see what
> the user experience is(we are considering allowing personal devices), so I
> proceed to restore my photos, music, etc. That completes. I go into the
> Mail app where I have my corporate account and Gmail account setup. Gmail
> starts working just fine. For the EAS account, I see a folder list of my
> mailbox, but no data and I receive the “Cannot sync..” blah blah error. Ok
> great! Now I download a few of the apps I had installed and sync them back
> over. I notice that some of my saved content in those apps reappears and my
> credentials for Facebook reappear and auto log me in? I never sync’d my
> apps, this was a fresh download from the App Store post wipe #2.
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> Click back over to the mail app to see what details of my Corporate EAS
> account are there… and the dang thing starts syncing. Folders to to date as
> of 1 min ago?
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> I jump over to the EMC and verify, yep device partnership is established.
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> How can this be? I’m baffled and really tired, so it could be something
> blaring oblivious, I hope so, because this isn’t a good thing.
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> The other thing I noticed, post wipe, that the unlock pwd is still using
> complex requirements from EAS and doesn’t revert back to the 4 digit numeric
> PIN….
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> The same steps above worked flawlessly on the WinMo.
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> Anyone see this before? Any help would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> JB
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