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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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8.15. Enabling Support for "Unsupported" Outlook Mobile Access Devices

Problem

Some of your users have mobile devices that aren't on the list of officially supported OMA devices, but you want to use them anyway.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Open the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. Open the Global Settings node, right-click on Mobile Services, and select Properties.

  3. Click the Enable unsupported devices and click OK.

Using VBScript

' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
 strOrgName = "cn=<orgName> "        ' e.g., "Robichaux and Associates"
 strOrgObj= strOrgName & ", cn=microsoft Exchange,cn=services,cn=configuration," &_
    "dc=<domain>, dc=<TLD>"
 strOMAObj = "cn=Outlook Mobile Access,cn=global settings," & strOrgObj
 strDCName = "<serverName>"    ' e.g., BATMAN
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

' get the global OMA settings object 
Set objOrg = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDCName & "/" & strOMAObj)

' reset the flag value to zero, which enables OMA on the server and enables
' the unsupported device flag
objOrg.Put "msExchOmaAdminWirelessEnable", "0"
objOrg.SetInfo
WScript.Echo "Enabled unsupported devices and OMA"

Discussion

OMA supports a fairly broad range of mobile devices, but they can't support every potential device. In general, phones or handhelds that implement the Openwave browser, Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer, or the Ericsson, Nokia, or Symbian browsers are supported. The canonical list of supported devices is located at http://www.asp.net/mobile/testeddevices.aspx?tabindex=6 ...

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