Re: security & OMA

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I don't think I told the story correctly but no big deal. Basically the info
I am trying to get at is:
1. Does the server based activesync rely on OMA?
2. If so, how do I ensure that OMA is secure and the connecting devices are
not passing passwords across the web in clear text wihtout being
encapsulated or encrypted.


The mail.companyname.com or companyname.com debate is that the MVPs were
saying that they configure their servers and DNS so that they access their
RWW, OWA, etc via a mail.companyname.com.


"James Frederickson - (MSFT)" <jamesfre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:I7XONwEKGHA.3944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Mike

It took me a while to understand what you were meaning. I would agree
with the MVP's in what they are saying

When you configure your mobile device to connect to the server you would
use the same URL that you would for RWW or OWA

If you go to mail.mycompany.com in OWA then you would use the same url for
your mobile device. Likewise if you use an IP address for OWA then you
would use and IP address in your mobile device.

clear as mud I hope

James


| Hi James,
|
| THanks for the reply and the documentation! I had a very hard time
finding
| documentation for setting up the treo and in the end I had to cal MS
| support. I spoke for quite some time with a tech (apparently in the
| phillipines) name Bino and he insisted that the WM5/activesync used OMA
for
| syncing. This is an area where I feel that MS has done a horrible job of
| providing information to its customers. To top that off there are MVPs
| saying that in order to get it (activesync/treo700) to work you need to
run
| RWW, OWA, etc. under mail.companyname.com and other things like that.
|
| I will read the info you posted and, again, thanks for providing it!!
|
| Mike
|
|
|
| "James Frederickson - (MSFT)" <jamesfre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| message news:yWxk7p4JGHA.3680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Hi Mike
| >
| > Your new Treo device will use Active Sync to talk to your server. You
can
| > install a cert of the device and by doing so everything is secure. I
use
| > OMA only to help with my troubleshooting, as OMA does not use SSL.
| >
| > There is a lot more documentation on our web site.
| >
| > New Mobility Features in Exchange Server 2003 SP2
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/sp2mobility.mspx
| >
| > Here is another great document on the Windows Mobile 2005 + MSFP
| > (Messaging
| > and Security Feature Pack)
| > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/business/5/default.mspx
| >
| > James
| >
| > Jamesfre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > James Frederickson [MSFT]
| >
| >
| > --------------------
| > | Reply-To: "MikeR" <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | From: "MikeR" <research@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > | Subject: security & OMA
| > | Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:29:12 -0800
| > | Lines: 14
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| > | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
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| > | Path:
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| > | Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:241149
| > | X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| > |
| > | Hi All,
| > |
| > | Wondering if anyone has dug deep to find out if there are nay holes
in
| > MS
| > | thinking regarding OMA. I am guessing that it ought to be fine but I
| > don't
| > | understand how it is secure when ssl is not required and the
password
is
| > | sent in plain text???
| > |
| > | Many treo's coming on line now and I need to catch up to the game :)
| > |
| > | THanks,
| > |
| > | Mike
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
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| > Hi <NAME>,
| >
| > I wanted to inform you that I have replied to your thread in
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| > <a href="http://wwww.microsoft.com>
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| >
|
|
|

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