Microsoft Exchange iPhone 3G Limitations?13 Oct 2008
Apple iPhone 3G (and Microsoft Exchange Sync) is an nifty productivity tool in the business environment. One can’t think it is a replacement tool for a Microsoft Exchange connected desktop. Moreover, naysayers on the street are jealous that their Blackberry lacks the Bling Bling of the iPhone 3G.
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This said, we would only be doing you some injustice by not speaking about some of the minor short comings of the 2nd generation Apple iPhone.
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- Only the inbox can be set to synchronize – sub-folders can be accessed
- No Flagging on email
- Cannot set Out of Office message
- No Hot Keys for managing messages
- No support for Activesync Schedule (eg. push during work hrs – pull outside of that)
- No Smart Filtering
- No ability to change sort order of email messages
- No support for Server Search of email messages
- Trying to delete messages or move them when you don’t have connectivity generates lots of errors messages and you cannot actually delete or move when offline
- Message status is not set on the server for replying/forwarding to an email, similarly the status from the server is not provided to the iPhone
- You cannot automatically set attachments to download
- There is no control over maximum attachment size
- You can’t see the number of unread or new emails without ‘slide’ – unlocking the device
- No ability to invite attendees to a meeting
- You cannot provide a reason for declining meetings
- Attendee status is not available
- There is no click through to get access to information from the GAL for a participant
- No support for setting Out of Office message
- You cannot delete a single occurrence of a recurring meeting – you can only delete the whole series
- Cannot enforce Storage or device encryption
- Remote wipe is not immediate (Takes about 2 hours) and restore requires a brief re-cradling exercise to iTunes
- PIN unlock timeout is not enforced on the iPhone
- You have to ‘slide’ to unlock – then enter the PIN code to unlock the device
- Difficult to get to Global Address List
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