Exchange ActiveSync Config Video & Some Notes for Non-Windows Mobile Devices
Harold Wong posted a 10 minute video showing how to set up Direct Push synchronization on an Exchange 2003 Server running SP2 and demonstrated how to configure a Windows Mobile 5 device as well.
If you think setting this up would be difficult, take a few minutes to watch the video to see how easy it really is.
Here are a few notes I took away as it relates to non-Windows Mobile 5 devices:
1. If you set up password policy enforcement, there is a setting that needs to be checked in order to allow non-Windows Mobile 5 devices to still be able to synchronize. This would include ActiveSync clients like RoadSync for Symbian devices as well as Windows Mobile 2003 devices.
2. Remote Wipe will behave differently for different platforms. In the demonstration, the remote wipe command causes the device to reset to factory settings. On Symbian platforms like Series 80 and UIQ where the RoadSync client is available and supports Remote Wipe, it is only the exchange data that gets wiped as there is no ability for an installed client application to cause the device to reset to factory settings.
I also noted that he demonstrated how Direct Push synchronization can be disabled on a per user basis. I think there may be some misconception that ActiveSync is something that has to be enabled as an all or nothing proposition for all users. That's not the case, you just need to disable User Initiated Synchronization for users who should not be able to sync via Direct Push.