How will admins exercise control over the personal devices that are brought into their organization?
I know that a lot of IT departments are a little uneasy with the idea of iPhones in the workplace… AG: One of the things that’s very important about Activesync, from an admin perspective, is the ability for the admin to make the final decision. We’ve built in controls for admins in Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 to give people really granular control—admins can make the choice for which devices they’re going to allow and what policies they want to be respected. An IT department can decide that if a device doesn’t support certain policies, it won’t be allowed to sync. On the software side, we make sure that admins have full control of their network and what devices attach to it. TW: I know that this announcement came as a surprise to a lot of people. Does Microsoft have any other partnerships in the works to bring Exchange support to a wider range of devices? AG: I work in Unified Communications here at Microsoft, so I can’t speak to what the Server or SQL group might do—so I’ll limit my c
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