Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide

Chapter 5. Working with Documents and Files

As the iPad ekes its way into businesses, we're starting to hear a very common question: How do I access my files on the server? Apple does not yet have a standard file-sharing scenario that they expect users to use, but the closest thing it in the minds of Apple tends to be MobileMe, which we will cover later in this chapter. MobileMe is a good way to test moving data around and interacting with files in a lab or in a pilot. However, MobileMe will be cumbersome in an enterprise context given that it is a single-user environment. Therefore, we cover MobileMe with the assumption that most environments will outgrow the options available and move into something else very quickly.

There are two primary ways ...