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Using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with Exchange

iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users have the same ability to directly connect their devices to Exchange servers as OS X users do. If you set up your iOS devices—iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches—to sync directly with Exchange, and you set up Entourage, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, and/or Notes to sync to Exchange (directly via Exchange 2007 or 2010 or through Entourage 2008 for earlier versions of Exchange), your Mac and your mobile devices stay in sync with each other and with the Exchange server. It really is that simple.

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You can use Apple's iCloud service to sync your Mac to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and to other computers, such as for personal e-mail accounts, as Chapter 22 explains. Likewise, if you use IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, IBM offers the Lotus Notes Traveler application for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches to sync e-mail. If you use Novell's GroupWise 8, iOS devices can sync to it directly if your company has installed the Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack on the server as well.

If you use a smartphone or tablet that doesn't come from Apple, you'll want a sync utility for it, to transfer contacts, music, and more. Chapter 13 lists several such utilities.

Setting up the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to access Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007, or 2010 is easy:

1. Tap Settings to open the Settings application, ...