Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Connectivity, Clients, and UM

Managing Outlook Web App for Devices

Managing Outlook Web App for Devices is a weird combination of managing Outlook Web App and managing Exchange ActiveSync devices. If you disable EAS access to a server or a mailbox, clients using that mailbox or server won’t be able to connect with Outlook Web App for Devices. You have finer-grained control, though, because there are several settings in the Outlook Web Access mailbox policy object that let you control what users of the mobile app may do. As of Exchange 2013 CU2, the only Outlook Web App for Devices–specific argument to Set-OWAMailboxPolicy is AllowCopyContactsToDeviceAddressBook, which controls whether the device is allowed to cache the user’s contacts in the device’s address book. If this ...