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Well, iv had by iPhone 3G about 3 days so far, and everything is going okay with it, but ill do more details what i think of it later, once iv thoroughly put it through its paces (and when apple stops releasing new firmware every 10 min’s lol)…

For this entry, its gonna be a brief guide to getting the famed remote wipe functionality working on a Small Business Server 2003 (Obviously running Exchange 2003 SP1).

Stage 1

If like me your companyweb internal site wasnt working, you need to take a look into that first. My problem with this came down to the fact that everytime i visited;

https://companyweb/

i got an error : Page cannot be displayed. If your getting anything along these lines, then i suggest checking the following;

• Make sure your DNS has a correct entry for companyweb, and its pointed to the right server
• check your running the latest service packs for Server 2003 and Exchange 2003
• Check your Web Service Extensions, make sure the standard options are Allowed, and not Prohibited !

Okay, once you got access to that, its pretty simple from that point on;

1. Download the Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Tool (very longwinded title for such a small application)
2. Install this on your Server
   1. By default, only remote systems can access this tool, to add the domain controller itself add the server name to the Local intranet list for Internet Explorer (In Internet Explorer, click Tools, click Internet Options, click Security, click Local intranet, and then click Sites), use ‘localhost’ as the server name when specifying the mobileAdmin URL in the browser
3. Access the tool via either https://localhost/MobileAdmin or https://[servername]/MobileAdmin.
4. Login using an administrator level accounts credentials
5. Behold the beauty of the tool, two links and nothing but white space, Microsoft really went out of their way to make this one look fantastic !

Well thats about it, but there are a couple of last min hints;

Most people iv heard about with this tool, have found the options [Wipe] and [Delete] as shown here alas, if like me when you first opened the tool it read [Block] and [Delete] then please take it on faith from me, that Block in fact should read Wipe.

Some genius in the Microsoft Programming team obviously took a day off, and do NOT listen to this guy, an apparent MSFT, who advises people that clicking BLOCK simply disallows access, sorry Robbin, but you are a tool and need to research things a little better before giving out advice on things you obviously have no clue about. Once you click Block or Wipe, the phone will continue to operate normally until it next attempts to sync data to your exchange server, at that point the phone will switch to a black screen with an Apple Logo in the centre, this state will remain until the phone has been wiped (roughly 8 hours).

Well, thats about it… as i said, its brief and to the point, hope it help someone, check back later for my views on the iPhone 3G (once iv re-flashed it with firmware lol)…