When you install Client Access server role onto a machine which is having Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, by default you enable the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. The Exchange ActiveSync allows you to synchronize a mobile device by making use of Exchange 2010 mailbox. The Exchange ActiveSync is a synchronization protocol from Microsoft Exchange. It has been optimized for working together along with the low bandwidth and high latency networks. This protocol is based on XML and HTTP. It allows mobile phones to access company information situated on a server which has Microsoft Exchange running. This Exchange Activesync enables the cell phone users to access their email account, contacts, tasks and calendar and keep on accessing this info when they are working offline.
The features available in ActiveSync include support for the follow-up flags, support for the HTML tags, capability to synchronize or non-synchronize a complete conversation etc. The Exchange ActiveSync is enabled by default. All those users having the Exchange mailbox may synchronize their mobile device with MS Exchange server.
The Exchange ActiveSync can be configured for using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for the communication between cell phone client and the Exchange server. It has certificate based authentication. You can use it with other security features like the local device wipe and device password for turning the cell phone into a smartcard. The certificate and private key used for authentication are stored in the cell phone memory. If some unauthorized user makes an effort to bypass the cell phone password, all the user data gets purged including private key and certificate.
In case you have the OS Windows Phone 7 installed on the mobile device of your company, these cell phones will have synchronization difficulties if some mailbox policy properties get configured. In order to permit the Windows Phone 7 to synchronize with the Exchange mailbox, set the AllowNonProvisionableDevices property as true.
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