Setup
Once you've convinced the IT squad of the iPhone's work-worthiness, they can set up things on their end by consulting Apple's free, downloadable setup guide: the infamous iPhone and iPod Touch Enterprise Deployment Guide. (It incorporates Apple's individual, smaller guides for setting up Microsoft Exchange, Cisco IPSec VPN, IMAP email, and Device Configuration profiles.)
This guide is filled with handy tips like: "On the Front-End Server, verify that a server certificate is installed and enable SSL for the Exchange ActiveSync virtual directory (require basic SSL authentication)."
In any case, you (or they) can download the deployment guide from this site: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise.
At that point, they must grant you and your iPhone permission to access the company's Exchange server using Exchange ActiveSync. Fortunately, if you're already allowed to use Outlook Web Access, then you probably have permission to connect with your iPhone, too.
The steps for you, the lowly worker bee, to set up your iPhone for accessing your company's Exchange ActiveSync server are much simpler:
Accept that your own personal addresses and calendar are about to be replaced by your work addresses and calendar. The iPhone can't handle both at once—at least not unless you sign up for a MobileMe account (Chapter 14). Only then can your personal and corporate stuff coexist. (Your personal and corporate email accounts can coexist, however.)
Set up your iPhone with your corporate email account, ...
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