Exchange works in Android 2.0
I'm planning on pulling out the old sleeping bag Thursday and hopping in line for the Motorola Droid release this Friday at 7AM. Although I haven't had a chance to play with the phone yet, I'm pretty excited based on what I've seen thus far. The reason why I'm excited is that it looks like it has a pretty decent chance at being a phone that can actually be usable for work. With its large screen, full hardware keyboard and multi-tasking.
However, we have a pretty strict corporate policy on our Exchange server at work. Our devices are supposed to support Remote Wipe and a pin password requirement, etc. I haven't seen any reviews online that have covered this scenario yet. So I had the idea today to download the Android 2.0 SDK Emulator.
After downloading and installing, I set up my exchange account settings. This seems to work very well. I can view all my outlook folders, my contacts are synced, and I'm allowed to sync up to a month of old email
Differences from Windows mobile I can tell so far:
- I can't search the company contacts directory
- I can't verify signed emails
- I can't send signed emails
- I can't read encrypted emails
- It doesn't seem to require me to put on a password policy on my phone
The default sdk image doesn't include the corporate calendar, so I haven't been able to test that out yet.
Overall, It seems as though I will be able to get 90% of the functionality, and 100% of the functionality I use on a day to day basis.
Again, I tested this so I could anticipate how my DROID will act, but I did not test this on any actual hardware and/or deployed software so actual mileage may vary.
Comments
Not sure why this works on the OS emulator, but it definitely doesn't work on my droid.
Posted by: Bryant Choung | November 6, 2009 08:29 PM
This is also not working on mine. I have enabled the "allow unsupported devices" check box in Exchange Mobile but it does not like the fact that my OWA auto fills the "domain\" ... Droid keeps saying my password/username is invalid. i can see my folders and i can send email with my corporate email in droid, but i cannot receive or see email on it.
i hope this is somehow fixed soon.
Posted by: Mark Tarquini | November 6, 2009 08:44 PM