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May Newsletter
iPhone
Software Version 2.0 Features –
Apple had a press conference a few weeks back on the iPhone
v2.0 software that will be released in June. I’m only
going to talk about one aspect of the new software that will
change the iPhone from a consumer level device that’s
“nifty” to an enterprise level device that
“rocks”. I will do this in a Q & A format.
Q: How can Apple make the iPhone even cooler?
A: Apple is licensing ActiveSync from Microsoft, which will
enable iPhone users to sync Email/Contacts/Calendars/and
Tasks from their Activesync compatible email server to their
iPhone without any computer being involved.
Here’s an example that might simplify the explanation:
I create a calendar event on my iPhone that I have a dentist
appointment. When I get back to the office and open iCal or
Entourage my calendar will have the event automatically
entered. I didn’t have to connect my iPhone to my
computer to have that information sync to the computer.
Q:
What email servers support this?
A: There is already a mail server that runs on a Mac that
supports this. Kerio MailServer supports ActiveSync
connections. Microsoft Exchange also supports this.
Q: This sounds great, but we don’t have an email server
that supports this! What do we do?
A: Well, you CAN have an email server that supports this, or
if you are a smaller company that doesn’t want to house
your own server I have a solution for you.
HoosierMac has been hosting Kerio MailServer accounts for
almost a year now. We do this for companies that don’t
want their own internal email server but want the advanced
features KMS can offer their company. Pricing is reasonable,
starting at $5/user/month and going up to $9/user/month for
advanced spam filtering. There’s no minimum for our
hosting. So if you want one account then you can have one
account. Please see this page for
more info.
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