You will now see a message with some general synchronization instructions. To connect to it, go to the mobile device, and choose the Programs | ActiveSync options from the device’s Start menu. Connecting to Exchange ServerĮxchange ActiveSync actually runs on a Client Access Server. Users wishing to access their mailbox through a mobile device must have Exchange ActiveSync enabled. Go to the properties sheet’s Mailbox Features tab, and enable Exchange ActiveSync as shown in Figure A. Upon doing so, you will see the user’s properties sheet. Right click on the mailbox that you want to allow mobile access to, and choose the Properties command from the resulting shortcut menu. To do so, open the Exchange Management Console, and then navigate through the console tree to Recipient Configuration | Mailbox. The first thing that you are going to have to do if you want to allow users to have mobile messaging capabilities is to give them permission to use Exchange ActiveSync. As such, I will be using Windows Mobile 6.1 for this article.

Before I Beginīefore I get started, I need to point out that there are some Exchange 2007 features (such as access to file servers) that will not work with legacy versions of Windows Mobile.

In this article, I will show you how to connect a Windows Mobile device to your Exchange Server. Exchange Server 2007 makes it simple to allow users to stay connected to their mailboxes, calendars, etc through a Windows Mobile device.

If someone were to ask me what was the single biggest feature that had improved in Exchange Server 2007 over the way that the feature existed in Exchange Server 2003, I would have to say that it is mobile messaging.

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