[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"We let people use iPhones as Exchange clients via activsync or imap, but that’s external access from a public network. That’s not what I’d consider to be an example of having a Apple product “on the network”. To me, that means on the private, internal network, behind the firewall."

Agreed. And I have seen that, with both iPhones and now (per my previous post) iPads-- in the hands of one of the heaviest hitters in finance. Unix rocks.

And why not? They're supremely secure devices, as their record of imperviousness to viruses and malware has shown.

[tacticalogic]

And why not? They're supremely secure devices, as their record of imperviousness to viruses and malware has shown.

They get no better treatment or consideration than any other Exchange client. If anything they're more of a PITA to set up an keep working than the Windows Mobile devices. We've got a CEO that likes his Apple gadgets too, but that doesn't translate to OSX or Linux in the data centers