Category Archives: Exchange

Ice Cream Sandwiches For The Kids!

October 19th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Device Management, Exchange

I was thinking about a pun about it being for grown-ups, but that might have been interpreted as me saying Android is all grown up. And I haven’t decided on that yet

After a slight delay Android version 4.0, code name Ice Cream Sandwich has now been launched. This is the next major iteration of the operating system, and this time it should work both on tablets and regular phone form factors. As the number indicates it is not a mix of the 2.x and 3.x branch, but the next branch. All APIs and features from 3.x is included in 4.0.

The main focus of the release is on user interface improvements, as well as general updates of the apps and polishing the OS further. You can find screenshots all over the Internet of course of this.

As usual I don’t care about these things. Well, of course, as a user of devices I care about the interface, but this blog does not concern itself with such matters. A perhaps important feature for people reading this blog is that since Honeycomb features are supported this means that you now get full device encryption on the phone devices and just not the tablets.
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A couple of paragraphs of what I have found so far.

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EAS MD – Looking to The Clouds

October 12th, 2011 | Posted in ActiveSync, Exchange, Updates, Utilities

I’ve grown quite fond of my EAS MD utility, and it’s also been great fun sharing the code powering it for the past weeks/months. When I originally started out coding it I was fueled by what I felt were shortcomings in the official diagnostic utility provided by Microsoft; http://testexchangeconnectivity.com. It only supported Exchange 2003 protocol level, had no means of dealing with security policies, and in general didn’t provide a whole lot of options. It worked OK, but not for the scenarios I wanted to test.

When you’re a programmer at heart this means there might come a moment when you get a feeling of “why not build what I want myself instead of accepting the tools available as is”. Not to mention that other people aren’t going to accept your “whining” either and will eventually challenge you to do better. (I wasn’t pressured by anyone else than myself when it came to this issue though.)

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Today I have come full circle, returning to where we started, and present a web version of EAS MD to you :)

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Exchange ActiveSync Building Blocks – Remote Wipe

September 28th, 2011 | Posted in ActiveSync, Coding, Exchange, How-to's

In the previous installment in this series we looked at how security policies are pushed down to our Exchange ActiveSync clients, and how to deal with them, or for that matter circumvent them. Thus I thought that it would be suitable to cover a topic highly related to implementation of security policies – how to handle remote wipe

When dealing with the “wipe” concept there are two kinds of wipes we need to be aware of; local wipe and remote wipe.
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I take a look at the low level details of the remote wipe process, along with some sample C# code that will get you started on your own.

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