Hi, Guest
07-11-2008, 03:48 AM
But does running Exchange on an iPhone not require something along the lines of RPC over HTTPS? You're looking at hosting certificates, buying certificates, configuring RPC over HTTPS (requires two Exchange servers for Exchange 2003, can't remember if you can get away with one in 2007 because of the split roles), reconfiguring your firewall(s)... if you even have the capacity to redirect singular IP traffic for port 443, hosting a new IP address (potentially) just to support iPhones' connectivity needs to said RPC over HTTPS frontend server, etc etc.
OR, you could add Blackberry Enterprise Server services to an existing or new server, purchase your licenses and connect directly to RIM's servers and sync your Blackberries all in the same day. No extra SSL certificates to buy and renew, no holes to open in your firewalls, no credentials to enter for RPC authentication over HTTPS. No potential extra IP aliases to host in order to run your redirections, no extra DNS records to create / wait on propagation so you can use FQDN for destination addressing for your Exchange client... nothing striking at all.
Sorry guys, but from a Systems Admin point of view, a Blackberry solution is a hell of a lot easier to plan/deploy/configure/support than an iPhone solution (as I know of them right now).
OR, you could add Blackberry Enterprise Server services to an existing or new server, purchase your licenses and connect directly to RIM's servers and sync your Blackberries all in the same day. No extra SSL certificates to buy and renew, no holes to open in your firewalls, no credentials to enter for RPC authentication over HTTPS. No potential extra IP aliases to host in order to run your redirections, no extra DNS records to create / wait on propagation so you can use FQDN for destination addressing for your Exchange client... nothing striking at all.
Sorry guys, but from a Systems Admin point of view, a Blackberry solution is a hell of a lot easier to plan/deploy/configure/support than an iPhone solution (as I know of them right now).
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