Re: WM5, VPN via PPTP/MPPE, and direct connection to Exchange
- From: "Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices" <management@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:43:09 -0500
Hello,
I've doone some research on this today and everything I'm finding points to
the fact that MPPE doesn't work with Windows Mobile. I fully admit this is
not an area I am strong in so I could be wrong - just basing it on an hour
or so of research. There is a lot of information out there on this - just
Live Search it.
As for direction connection to your Exchange server, it depends on what you
mean. If you are using AKU 2 or higher you can configure your device to
synchronize all your PIM data and mail with your device so long as you are
running Exchange 2003 SP2 or higher. Is that what you are needing to do?
Thanks,
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Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!
"nik" <nik_AT_cict.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hello mobile people:
For years my company has been providing remote access to its SBS2003
network
(including Exchange Server) using a router-based VPN service - NOT a
public-facing Windows box running ISA Server. (The sysadmin likes to keep
all his Windows boxes NATted. :-))
Standard Win2000/XP VPN clients connect to this VPN server without
problems - MPPE compression/encryption is automatically implemented by the
VPN client over the PPTP connection, and the remote machines then have LAN
addresses for accessing the Exchange Server.
Now I'm evaluating a Windows Mobile 5 device (Pocket PC type), and trying
to
connect via the same VPN server - but the connection is dropped by the
server, I think because the VPN client in the mobile device doesn't
support
MPPE. Or at least because it doesn't automatically use it when requested
on
a PPTP connection.
Is there any way of getting the VPN client in WM5 to use MPPE?
Also, is it possible to set up a WM5 device to communicate directly with
Exchange? Part of the reason for evaluating these devices is to replace
laptops, but all the walkthroughs I can find for deploying WM5 on Windows
Server / Exchange (including cerificate installations) require that the
device is synced with a client PC. Is it practical to use WM5 devices as
standalone clients on an SBS2003 system?
Thanks for any tips!
Nik
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