New and Notable Features of Windows Mobile 6.5 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

7/2/2010

This section provides information about some of the new functionality of Windows Mobile 6.5 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Features not directly related to mobile messaging deployment are not covered in this document, but can be found at: www.windowsphone.com

Features of Windows Mobile 6.5

Windows Mobile 6.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile phone software that will deliver new customer experiences through an improved, easy-to-use user interface, better browsing capabilities and access to new services, including Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

New User Features in Windows Mobile 6.5

• Touch, Start, and Lock screens that provide at-a-glance views of important information, such as new e-mail and text messages, unanswered phone calls, and the user’s calendar.
• Finger touchability and an improved user interface that expedites access to content on the user’s phone.
• Internet Explorer® enhancements, including PC-quality browsing, full Web content (with optional Adobe® Flash® Lite), zooming, panning, and auto-complete of Web URL entries.
• My Phone, a Microsoft service that lets users synchronize personal information, such as contacts, personal e-mail, text messages and photos with a password-protected Web site. The site can also be accessed from a PC. (Not available for Exchange-based accounts.)
• More application choices, offering a greater number and variety of applications and games via an online marketplace, Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

New Windows Mobile 6.5 Enterprise Functionality

• Expanded native mobile device management and security features
• Enhanced certificate enrollment and management
• Microsoft SharePoint® and Windows file share document access*
• Enhanced E-mail: Search, HTML support*

Expanded Native Mobile Device Management and Security

Windows Mobile 6.5 software architecture helps deliver increased device management and security capabilities, and tighter integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and other productivity tools so businesses can more efficiently deploy, manage, and secure Windows® phone solutions.

The flexible policy management features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, along with increased device control and security features enhance integrated mobile business performance. These new features and device capabilities help make it easier to build security-enhanced line of business (LOB) applications.

Additionally, the following security enhancements have been augmented in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010:

• Set Sync Frequency
• Set Peak Start Time
• Set Peak End Time
• Disable OTA Email Sync
• Disable OTA Calendar Sync

Security features in Windows Mobile 6.5

Enhanced Certificate Enrollment and Management

Windows Mobile 6.5 includes a device-side enroller that is in ROM on all phones. In addition, an Exchange ActiveSync 4.5 desktop-side enroller enables the user to configure and initiate enrollment using a desktop user interface. Functionality includes creating certificate enrollment settings from Active Directory information, and the ability to use the desktop domain logon for device certificate enrollment.

Desktop Certificate Enroll enables the user to enroll a certificate to his or her device using desktop smart card authentication to the domain, without requiring a smart card reader or smart card software on the device. Enhanced security features available in Windows Mobile 6.5 support application-initiated enrollment, support deployments that require non-password authentication of the enrollment (smart card), and provide a way to renew expiring certificates.

These features:

• Provide certificate-based authentication that can replace standard user name and password authentication
• Enable flexible platform certificate enrollment that is configurable on the device
• Allow applications to call into the certificate enrollment process programmatically to initiate enrollment
• Support easy certificate renewal
• Provide the ability to install additional certificates on the device without having to create a .CAB file

SharePoint and Windows File Share Document Access

SharePoint document access gives authenticated mobile users the ability to select links embedded in HTML e-mail to open documents stored on SharePoint servers. The same applies for Universal Naming Convention (UNC) shared documents. This can be used as an alternative to attaching files to e-mail messages, which is costly in terms of bandwidth and storage. This approach helps ensure that the recipient gets the most recent version of a document.

Mobile users are generally unable to access documents from outside a company firewall, but this problem is solved by using Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 as a proxy or redirector for the document. This approach allows HTML e-mail to contain links to SharePoint documents just like standard attachments.

Exchange Search for E-mail

Exchange Search for e-mail enables Windows Mobile 6.5 users to search their Microsoft Exchange mailboxes for items that match specified criteria. The search results are downloaded and displayed in a search results folder. Having the ability to search e-mail in the user’s Exchange store is a powerful feature that helps users access critical information in their Exchange mailbox while away from a desktop.

The following features are supported:

• Search for information in e-mail messages not stored on the phone
• Search results appear in a standard messaging folder view
• User can specify fields and folders to search, as well as date ranges
• User can retrieve body content and attachments from search results
• Results remain in the search folder until the next search, or until the user manually clears them
• User can see the maximum number of search results available

HTML Support in E-mail

HTML e-mail support for Microsoft Outlook Mobile® allows end users to receive, view, compose, and send e-mail in HTML format. The following messaging transports are supported: Exchange ActiveSync, POP, IMAP, and Exchange Server 2010. HTML functionality includes bullets, tables, hyperlinks, formatted text, and inline images.

HTML capabilities for Windows Mobile 6.5 software include:

• E-mails synchronized with Exchange Server 2010 can display the original HTML formatting
• HTML Smart Reply, Inline Smart Forward, Compose, and Fetch Mail are supported
• Forwarded e-mail is not shown inline, as it is in desktop Outlook
• E-mail preserves inline hyperlinks to Web content
• Policy and user options: Control HTML payload per account via Configuration Service Provider and user options

Windows Mobile 6.5 - Mobile Messaging Features At-A-Glance

To view how the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 features compare to those of older versions, see Mobile phone match-up on the Windows® phone Web site.

New Features: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 brings a new and rich set of technologies, features, and services to the Microsoft Exchange Server product line. This topic lists many of the new features and functionality that are included in Exchange Server 2010. The list is not comprehensive; however, it provides important information to use when you're planning, deploying, and administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in your organization:

• New Rights-Protected E-Mail Functionality with Active Directory RMS
• New Transport and Routing Functionality
• New Permissions Functionality
• New High Availability Functionality
• New Messaging Policy and Compliance Features
• New Outlook Web Access Features
• New Unified Messaging Features
• Web Management Interface
• New Exchange Core Store Functionality
• New Administration Functionality in the Exchange Management Console
• New Administration Functionality in the Exchange Management Shell

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Exchange ActiveSync Functionality

Exchange ActiveSync is enabled by default on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with the Client Access server role installed. Exchange ActiveSync has been enhanced in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange ActiveSync features include:

• SMS Sync (text messaging sync)
  • Send and receive SMS messages from Outlook 14 and OWA
• Email conversation view
• Nickname cache sync that is shared with OWA
• Unified Messaging form enhancements
• Support categories in email
• Highlight when mail was received via BCC
• Support for non-Gregorian calendar recurrences
• New Meeting fields
• Text notes sync

Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies

Exchange ActiveSync mailbox policies allow an administrator to apply a common set of policy and security settings to a group of users. Several additional policies have been introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to provide greater management control over your mobile messaging environment.

The following mobile policy options can be implemented using the Exchange Management Console:

For a more detailed overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox policies, see Understanding Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies on the Microsoft TechNet Web site.

Distributed Server Roles

Two options are available for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 deployment, typical and custom.

In a typical installation, multiple service components (server roles) are added to a single server platform. A server role is a unit that logically groups the required features and components needed to perform a specific function in the messaging environment. The requirement of a server role is that it is a server that could be run as an atomic unit of scalability.

Server roles, the primary unit of deployment, enable administrators to easily choose which features are installed on an Exchange server. Logically grouping features in server roles offers the following advantages:

• Reduces the attack surface on an Exchange server.
  • An administrator has the ability to add additional backend servers without disrupting Client Access Server operation or exposing these servers outside of the corporate LAN.
• Offers simple installation, and the ability to fully customize a server to support your business goals and needs.
• Potentially increases server performance by dispersing the overall workload (CPU and memory utilization) to additional server platforms.

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 server roles in a mobile messaging deployment are:

• Client Access Server: This server hosts the client protocols, such as Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4), Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), Outlook Anywhere, Availability service, and the Autodiscover service. The Client Access Server also hosts Web services and is required for all Active Directory sites that contain mailbox servers.
• Mailbox Server: This server hosts mailboxes and public folders.

For more information on Microsoft Exchange 2010 server roles, see “Server Role Documentation Roadmap” under Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on the Microsoft TechNet Web site.

Exchange Management Console - Overview

In Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the Exchange Management Console allows you to manage all servers, recipients, and organizational components in your IT infrastructure.

The Action pane lists the actions available to administrators, based on the items selected in the console tree or result pane. From a mobile messaging perspective, the Action pane is where a new mailbox policy may be created or a data wipe initiated for a phone.

See Also

Concepts

Deploying Mobile Messaging for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010