We have a client that we can not get their Iphones to sync to their Exchange mailboxes. OMA and OWA work fine. Setting up a test account on the server works fine. Sending and receiving email to and from the test account works fine. The test account was created by copying one of the problem accuounts in AD. The only major difference between the test account and the copied account is mailbox size (21KB vs 2.6GB). On the problem accounts the mailbox folders are populated on the iphone but there is no content in any of the folders. Any ideas?
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Do you have other handsets that work with your exchange server or are the iPhones the first?
I am including a link to an iPhone setup walkthrough, just in case you are missing something:
http://www.theip
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Assuming the ActiveSync for iPhone works the same way as it does for windows, then what you're experiencing is normal. On my Windows Mobile phone, I have to tell it which folders to I want to sync. It lists them all so I can decide, but it only syncs the ones I select. They are also listing all folders so that you can "file" mail into other folders as you want to. Once filed and a sync takes place, that mail is no longer accessible UNLESS you have indicated you want to sync a folder other than the inbox.
I guess I was not clear in my post. We created a test account on the server with an exchange mailbox on the server. We configure the Iphone (same Iphone used for the problem accounts) to use the test account. It connects fine and syncs with the server. Sending and receiving emails on the Iphone works with the test account.
If we change the account information (or create a new one) on the Iphone (same Iphone that works with the test account) to one of the problem accounts, the folders get populated on the Iphone but none of the folder contents arrives. All we are interested is the inbox. When you go to the inbox on the Iphone nothing is there and the "spinner" at the bottom of the Iphone keeps spinng with the comment "checking for mail".
It could be an error in the Exchange Database.
Are there any ESE errors in the Application Event log on the server?
You may need to run ESEUTIL /P on the database to repair it and then ISINTEG -s (Server) -fix -test alltests
Some useful info on ESEUTIL / ISINTEG: http://www.msexchange.org/
I think leew is onto something. The users inbox was 1.2GB. We copied the users inbox to the test account and now the test account has the same issue. We removed most of the 1.2GB content and it is now flowing again. We have the Iphone set to show 25 recent messages, mail days to sync to 1 day and sync only the inbox. Even with these settings the 1.2GB would stop the flow or at least take forever to sync.
I don't think the size of the mailbox is going to be an issue - I have users with far more in their mailboxes and they don't have a problem.
My thoughts lean more towards a corrupt message / mailbox store.
Are there any ESE errors in the Application Event Log?
Can you / have you run eseutil /g (integrity check) against the particular store (needs to be taken offline) to see if the store is happy?
If not, then run eseutil /p and follow it by isinteg -s (servername) -fix -test alltests
I agree on the mailbox size not being the issue. I use the iPhone and my mailbox is over 4GB's
As a quick solution, you could export all the user's email to a PST file, remove the mailbox. Make sure the mailbox is purged.
Create a new mailbox for the existing user and move all his email back to their respective folders.
Complete any housekeeping and try setting up the iPhone again for the user.
We tried eseutil /g and the store came back happy. We did create a test user and it works fine. As soon as we copy more that 100 messages to the test mailbox is when it quits syncing. If ther are only ten or so, it syncs. We are going to go on site and connect via 802.11 and reconfigure with the local server name and see if that helps. We suspect a incoming connectivity issue. Any other ideas?
Problem solved.... We paid $175 to a group we found on the internet and got our solution resolved in 15 minutes (as a consultant in the business for 22 years, I was very upset we did not figure it out). We must have put in 20 man hours plus all your time trying to figure this out. They logged in, fixed our problem THEN asked for a CC for payment. I've instructed our staff that if it takes longer than 30 minutes to set up an Iphone to Exchange and have problems, STOP and call these guys.
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by: tntmaxPosted on 2009-07-03 at 13:57:24ID: 24774374
Did you setup a 3rd party SSL cert? What version of Iphone? Do you have Form Based Authentication turned on, or require SSL turned on? These will both break active sync on the iPhone (and other phones as well).