Use an Enterprise iPhone

After setting up your iPhone as an enterprise device, Exchange ActiveSync pushes email messages, calendar events, and contacts to the iPhone. In doing so, it offers some options not otherwise available on the iPhone, not even with MobileMe. For example, when an authorized user sends you a calendar invitation, you are immediately alerted to this on your iPhone (much as you are when a text message arrives). Similarly, your boss can automatically update your contacts list (such as to include the name of a new employee) without any intervention from you.

Exchange ActiveSync provides special security features for the iPhone. As one example, it supports Remote Wipe. In the event that your iPhone is lost or stolen, this allows ...

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