The iPhone and some serious annoyances

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Aug 7, 20081 min

In hopes of preventing anyone else from feeling this particular pain, Paul Venezia posts about trying to provide ActiveSync to an iPhone.

“If you use forms-based authentication on your OWA server, you can’t use ActiveSync — they’re apparently mutually exclusive,” Venezia explains in The iPhone, Exchange, ActiveSync, security, and some serious annoyances.

“If you want ActiveSync and a secure OWA implementation, you’ll be putting up another Exchange front-end server just for that, or living with the fact that you can’t require SSL connections or use forms-based auth with OWA, opening up some holes you’d rather not have open.”