Re: WM5, VPN via PPTP/MPPE, and direct connection to Exchange

Hi Clinton - thanks for your message.

AKU is, for lack of a better description, the "build" your device is
running.

OK - this unit is 15673.3.3.1.

On your device, go to Start>Settings>System>About and look at the
Build number. If you are running anything 14334.2 or later (higher
number),
then you are running AKU 2.

AKU 2 allows for email and PIM data assuming your device is also a phone
or
has WiFi functionality. This allows you to get your email and PIM data
"over the air" without needing to synchronize with your PC.


Before we get too far down this road, can you share what device you have?

The particular device I have for evaluation is a HTC Advantage - but the
idea is really to evaluate WM as a platform for the organisation's future
messaging needs, rather than to test a particular gadget. We may end up
using WM on something more phone-like, or on a smaller and cheaper PDA.

But the key question is whether I can set WM5 up to connect securely to a
non-Microsoft VPN server, in order to access an Exchange Server on a private
LAN..?

Another question - will WM5 Internet Explorer support OWA? Or does WM5
support using HTTP for Outlook/Exchange? Currently, when I connect XP
clients to Exchange via the VPN server, I have to select the the Outlook
option for communicating with Exchange via HTTP - and our few Win2K legacy
clients can only connect to Exchange using OWA.

And finally - would WM6 offer any useful additional features for this kind
of setup?

Thanks
nik


Thanks,

--
Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!


"nik" <nik_AT_cict.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi Clinton - thanks for the comments.

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.

That's what I found in practice - I just wanted to make sure I hadn't
missed
a config option.



As for direction connection to your Exchange server, it depends on what
you
mean. If you are using AKU 2

Sorry, you lost me there - what's AKU?

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?

Not sure what you mean by "configure your device to synchronise [data]
with
your device"..? I want to use the WM device as a standalone Outlook
client
for our Exchange Server, NOT synchronising with a client laptop.

All the walkthroughs I can see on Technet etc for WM devices seem to
assume
that the WM is used alongside a client PC, and synchronised with it - so
the
PC is used to install software, security certificates etc on the WM
device.
But we're trying to *replace* some of our current laptops with WM
devices,
because laptops are an expensive option for users who don't need the
functionality of a full Windows / Office laptop. This means that our
scenario requires the WM devices to work entirely standalone, as
Exchange
Server messaging clients.

Is WM a suitable option for this?

Thanks
nik


Thanks,


--
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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