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How do I setup Active Sync for Exchange 2003 to allow wireless sync with PDA's and smartphones?

I am running an Exchange 2003 server, and I also have a Blackberry Enterprise server setup and running good.

What I would like is to enable wireless email and calendar support for PDA's and smartphones. I found this article that exlains it can be done, but I have not been able to find detailed instructions on how to do the setup on the server side.

http://www.its.uiowa.edu/cs/exchange/pdaphone.shtml

Can you experts help me to setup my exchange server to do this?

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athelu

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btercero

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Well that explains it right there. I have a home grown SSL certificate in place. So thats probably why I cant get handhelds to connect to the server.

What about fully qualified domain names? Do I need to have my server domain setup as a FQDN using .com instead of .local?

I have a domain name pointing to my exchange server, and users can login through the web using Outlook web access, but my domain name is server.domain.local. Is this going to create a problem?

athelu

The cert has to be issued to the FQDN name of the server. as long as you can reach the server from the internet,the actual name should not matter.

btercero

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Ok, is SSL required? Or can I just disable my local certifcate and get it working without any ssl at all?

athelu

no, ssl is not required. just make sure that your pda/phone has the ability to NOT use ssl first (most do, so you should be ok).

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Jeff Rodgers

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btercero

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Thanks for all the tips, I am going to be reconfiguring my server today to try and get this working.