Monday, January 25, 2010

Removing password requirement for mobile devices on Exchange 2007 and/or SBS 2008

When you put in a Windows 2008 SBS box, it puts in a password requirement once the mobile device (for example - an iphone) has an active Exchange ActiveSync connection.

You can alter that setting in Exchange Management Console under Oragnization Configuration -> Client Access -> right click on Windows ... Mobile Policy ... and unchecking require password on the password tab.

In my experience, you need to remove and re-add the account on the mobile device after making the settings change (at least on an iphone 3Gs I tested on)

More details here:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/07/04/you-deployed-a-new-sbs-2008-and-now-the-phones-demand-a-password.aspx

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