Exchange set up with Iphone 3g
August 7th, 2008Setting up Iphone 3g on exchange server.
Wow so I finally got an iphone! They are so nice. I went ahead and purchased the 16gb one because thats all they had available at the apple store. So I spent about 3 minutes trying to set this thing up on my exchange server. I had all the correct info in, but I still get getting exchange account validation failed! What gives. I have used other phones to connect via active sync. We use OWA “outlook web access” and that works fine. All the correct ports are open on our server. Well here’s what it was. I kept getting to the point where it said exchange account validation failed, and then I would start over. Duh!! What I needed to do was hit next and save the new account. I then needed to go into setttings then mail settings and go into the account I just set up. The problem was the SSL. We don’t have SSL so the iphone kept looking for that and thats why it failed. As soon as I turned the ssl option off, bamm I got my email. I’m still messing around with this thing, and hope to update this with any more little tricks.
Hope this helps someone out there!
September 29th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Thanks for that, did it and got exchange working perfectly. That was sunday morning. I couldn’t sync sunday arvo and now it’s tuesday lunch and I still get the “The connection the the server failed” error. I have deleted the account twice and added it agin but to no avail.
Any help with this constant non connection?
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Are you using the ip address? At one point i had the url name and it wouldnt work so I through in the server ip and that seems to work everytime.