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How to keep Outlook Exchange setup after upgrade

Hi,
My touch is used for work.
Everytime I do an upgrade that requires a hard reset, I have to wait until our IT person comes to the office once a week to get my emails setup again.
They will not give me the password as it's the exchange server password I guess.
Anyway to do a backup that will keep the setup/password for after I do the update so I don't have to wait until the guy is in the office?
Thanks.
LIP

Hmm. I have an exchange server at my home (I'm an MCSE/MCT). I don't have this problem.
I don't understand why he won't give you the password. That password should be unique to you. Personally, I don't know any of my client's passwords and I don't want to. Any administrator who knows their client's passwords has set themselves up for a legal mess.
Anyways. Are you connecting through a VPN?

Hi,
I don't understand this either to be honest but I'm not an expert with exchange (I know nothing about it to be honest).
He needed my password as well so I'm not sure what other password he is on about.
We use VPN but I don't know how this works with windows mobile devices.
Thanks.
LIP

There is not a server specific password with exchange, unless for some reason he has isolated exchange on it's own AD Structure and manually creates usersnames in that domain for your email. I've seen IT guys do weird things, so I never put anything to chance.
Here is something you can do before an upgrade.
Go into activesync, then menu->configure server.
Write down all the options and configured settings.
And pay close attention to the username\domain field in the second screen. If that is the same as what you sign in with at work, then there is not another password.
The only problem I see you running into if it is the same password you normally use, is maybe he did not use a trusted CA for the server's certificate.
If that is the case, you will get the yellow exclamation error saying there is a problem with the server's certificate.
Easy fix for that, go to the server's address on your laptop/desktop, and save the certificate to a file. Then import it on your phone and you should be good to go.
Now in regards to the VPN... You normally do not see a vpn in use unless they allow you to access the resources on the domain from your phone. (Sharepoint, and exch2007 shared folder access for example)
If they are, you would have some additional vpn software installed or are using the built in vpn configuration.
That would be under Start->Settings->Connections. Under "My Work Network" tap "Manage existing connections". At the bottom, tap VPN.
If you see something in here you are using a vpn. If you don't, you probably are not, unless you see some vpn client installed in your programs.
Hope this gives you enough info to give it a try yourself after the next upgrade.
Good luck, and best wishes.

Froyo & Exchange - "Update Security Settings"

Hi,
i have Exchange setup & working. I get a notification each time I reboot the phone it says update security settings. If I click on it, it goes away & doeesnt bring any other information together.
Any ideas on what it wants? Its not terribly annoying but its strange.
Thanks,
Rich

I don't have an answer, but I do have a question??? Do you still need to enter a password every time you "un-lock" the phone??? I am currently running 2.1 but use LockPicker to get around this.

Hi,
I dont have to enter any codes into my phone. I have exchange set up twice on my phone.
The first time I set it up with the default app so my contacts will be populated & then I set it not to check my exchange again.
Then I use Touchdown for my exchange needs. It works great & I would assume it would bypass that issue. I like Touchdown better as it downloads subfolders (once selected) by default, so the email is always in sync.

Thx...I have Touchdown and will try that once 2.2 goes OTA.

toddasimpson67 said:
I don't have an answer, but I do have a question??? Do you still need to enter a password every time you "un-lock" the phone??? I am currently running 2.1 but use LockPicker to get around this.
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That's caused by a setting on your Exchange server from what I've heard. Basically its an enterprise level security feature. Without hacking it, like you have been doing, its not going to change in the software update. If anything, Google will make it harder to get around it, since they are trying to get enterprises to adopt Android, so they need to keep these kinds of settings around.

Lockpicker does not work with 2.2, you will have to enter a code but you can adjust the time for that code entry to up to 15 minutes, if you use Touchdown you will have to enter the code everytime you go into the touchdown app. its not to bad entering the code every 15 minutes, the screen for the code entry is huge with a big dialer, not so much of a pain as entering the code before.

Hi,
I am using exchange 2007 & Touchdown. I dont have to ever put a code in. Is this due to my exchange being a hosted exchange service vs a work corp email?
Thanks,
Rich

RichTJ99 said:
Hi,
I am using exchange 2007 & Touchdown. I dont have to ever put a code in. Is this due to my exchange being a hosted exchange service vs a work corp email?
Thanks,
Rich
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it's a setting on the Exchange server. it just depends if the Exchange nerd was told to implement it or not.

I found this while searching to find a fix. I think that I figured it out though.
This is referring to the security settings for your phone and I believe that the Exchange server is set to require a password be entered on the phone to satisfy it's security requirements.
I turned on the pattern lock on my phone and haven't received the message again... Yet.

There's also an issue that I know of with Exchange Server 2010
If this setting has been enabled by the sysadmin;
Via EMC:
Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Exchange On-Premises
- Organization Configuration
- Client Access
- Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies
Under Default policy, Device Password Required - Yes
Then your Exchange client on Froyo will bounce around asking you to press it's buttons every boot, and sometimes every time your network status changes!
EVEN IF this setting is reverted, there appears to be a bug where the security settings are still passed to the client device.
I've tested this myself and Ninpo [[email protected]] can verify.

[A] Exchange Settings CM7

Well, took me a while to figure out how to setup exchange for the Cyanogen Mod 7 (CM7) nightlies. I figured this could help some others having trouble. It asks for email address and password. I would enter this. It would fail. Then I realized it actually wants this:
[Domain]\[UserName]@[exchangeserveraddress]
So my email address might be: [email protected]
But I know my exchange server is "exchange.mail.com"
and I know my domain is "Staff"
So I don't enter [email protected] as my email address. I instead enter:
Staff\[email protected] as my email address.
Note: At my work, exchange is setup with all kinds of security and none of the auto discover junk that helps with setup. So these settings may help other people with 'difficult' exchange servers. For others, this may be completely unnecessary.

Weird. I didn't have any problems at all when I went to Settings>Accounts>Add>Corporate. Just punched in my email, pass, then on the next screen the username (Domain\user), FQDN of the public-facing exchange portal, and enabled "use all SSL certs" because my admin is a cheap crackhead who refuses to get a real cert.
Worked first time, too.

Thanks Joe.

drmacinyasha said:
Weird. I didn't have any problems at all when I went to Settings>Accounts>Add>Corporate. Just punched in my email, pass, then on the next screen the username (Domain\user), FQDN of the public-facing exchange portal, and enabled "use all SSL certs" because my admin is a cheap crackhead who refuses to get a real cert.
Worked first time, too.
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Yes, there are all sorts of variables with exchange depending on security settings, auto-discovery settings, and the version of exchange server. What works on one server, does not work on another.
At my work, exchange is very secure with none of the auto discover junk that helps with setup. So these settings may help other people with 'difficult' exchange servers. For others, this may be completely unnecessary.

I just tried cm7 nightly. No problem getting exchange set up BUT my server requires that the password lock be setup on the phone and I kept getting a message that phone did not allow the required security. This is not an issue on the evio2 Rom I've been using.
Anyone else run into this on cm7?
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mikegoldnj said:
I just tried cm7 nightly. No problem getting exchange set up BUT my server requires that the password lock be setup on the phone and I kept getting a message that phone did not allow the required security. This is not an issue on the evio2 Rom I've been using.
Anyone else run into this on cm7?
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That's because your other ROM doesn't have a fully compatible Email.apk which supports all the ActiveSync admin permissions. Just setup a phone lock which meets the minimum complexity (usually a 4-8 digit PIN will suffice), and accept the Admin rights via the notification you get.

drmacinyasha said:
That's because your other ROM doesn't have a fully compatible Email.apk which supports all the ActiveSync admin permissions. Just setup a phone lock which meets the minimum complexity (usually a 4-8 digit PIN will suffice), and accept the Admin rights via the notification you get.
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My other ROM does support the ActiveSync permissions, which is why I'm able to successfully setup the password and sync with the Exchange server. This is NOT the case with CM 7.
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mikegoldnj said:
My other ROM does support the ActiveSync permissions, which is why I'm able to successfully setup the password and sync with the Exchange server. This is NOT the case with CM 7.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
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So you setup a lock with PIN, but it doesn't recognize this?

Exchange
Hey all, I found this thread while looking for a solution as to why I cannot setup my exchange account. I'm using CM7 but I have a moto cliq xt (I know this is the EVO threads).
I'm not sure from reading this thread, but are you all successfully connecting and syncing to exchange servers with CM7?
I know my credentials are correct (they worked on other roms and on stock) but I'm not sure what the problem is now.
My username is different than my email address on the exchange server, so Joe's suggestion wouldn't help me. I have a logcat from my push to the server if someone might be able to point out the problem from there.
I apologize for posting this in your thread, but I'm out of options and can't get an answer or solution from my home thread.
*Note - another user from my thread was able to, but his username matched his email, and he did it like Joe suggested. Also, I can connect using Touchdown and the same credentials (but I don't want to use Touchdown as I would like the native Email app to handle this.)
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

No go for me... Stupid Exchange 2007 and your damn security policies! Why on earth do you work with the stock sense email.apk and not AOSP!

41rw4lk said:
Hey all, I found this thread while looking for a solution as to why I cannot setup my exchange account. I'm using CM7 but I have a moto cliq xt (I know this is the EVO threads).
I'm not sure from reading this thread, but are you all successfully connecting and syncing to exchange servers with CM7?
I know my credentials are correct (they worked on other roms and on stock) but I'm not sure what the problem is now.
My username is different than my email address on the exchange server, so Joe's suggestion wouldn't help me. I have a logcat from my push to the server if someone might be able to point out the problem from there.
I apologize for posting this in your thread, but I'm out of options and can't get an answer or solution from my home thread.
*Note - another user from my thread was able to, but his username matched his email, and he did it like Joe suggested. Also, I can connect using Touchdown and the same credentials (but I don't want to use Touchdown as I would like the native Email app to handle this.)
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I was able to use the settings that he put in there to get it to work domain\[email protected] Did you try to use them?
Are you even getting to the server name prompt? If so it should be the same as the webaccess address.

drmacinyasha said:
That's because your other ROM doesn't have a fully compatible Email.apk which supports all the ActiveSync admin permissions. Just setup a phone lock which meets the minimum complexity (usually a 4-8 digit PIN will suffice), and accept the Admin rights via the notification you get.
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I know this thread hasn't been touched in a while, but I don't see a good solution for my particular Exchange setup. I run into the "This server requires security features that your phone does not support." issue and I was wondering something. If I have the Mail app from stock backed up in Titanium Backup, can I restore that app and use it? If so, would I need to uninstall the Email app that comes with CM7?
Since I really really miss my calendar/contacts sync from before, I may not wait for an answer and just hope that my nandroid backup in ROM Manager is a good safety net and go for it. I'll post my results if I do.

chuckuykendall said:
I know this thread hasn't been touched in a while, but I don't see a good solution for my particular Exchange setup. I run into the "This server requires security features that your phone does not support." issue and I was wondering something. If I have the Mail app from stock backed up in Titanium Backup, can I restore that app and use it? If so, would I need to uninstall the Email app that comes with CM7?
Since I really really miss my calendar/contacts sync from before, I may not wait for an answer and just hope that my nandroid backup in ROM Manager is a good safety net and go for it. I'll post my results if I do.
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So I didn't wait, and I went ahead and mucked with it, but I got way less than stellar results. I was able to uninstall "Email.apk" using Titanium Backup, but when I tried to restore my "Mail.apk" from the same, it just sat there and never completed. I assume that the installation actually failed behind the covers due to some requisite not being in place and that TB was not able to interpret the error as a failed restore.
The search for an answer continues...

[Q] E-mail account (Office365) wants to be able to erase all data?

My company's e-mail server was running Exchange 2007 up until Friday night, which I was able to link to with my GN (and for that matter, my Nook Color) via the stock E-mail app. Over the weekend they updated to Office365, and after going through all of the nonsense about deleting and re-adding the account, the app is now telling me I have to change my security settings and give the account device admin settings. Among these are "Erase all data" eek and "Set storage encryption," neither of which are things I want to do, let alone give a remote server the ability to do. Apparently I'm not the only one that's worried about this.
So, Is there any way to get past this craziness? This is really frustrating, because a lot of the time I'm not in the office, it's important that my e-mail and calendars are synced automatically. I don't want to have to use a mobile web interface, or manually copy each meeting or appointment from the desktop interface into GCal. FWIW, I'm rooted (see sig for ROM, kernel, etc.) and would be perfectly fine going with a 3rd party app, as long as I can get new mail and all appointments pushed to the phone.
ETA: Here's a screenshot of the "permissions" it wants:

That is set by your Exchange Admin Team. I know of Email.apk's that will bypass the PIN lock requirement, but not those permissions. I manage our Exchange 2007 environment, and when I used Enhanced Email it wanted to be device admin, basically turning on PIN lock requirement and enforcing our Exchange Policies. They would either have to assign another Active Sync policy to your user account, or ease up these security restrictions.

[Q] Cannot set up Exchange mail sync

I just got my Gnex. It updated to Android 4.04. I try to set up email with my office Exchange account and it fails. The error message says "you don't have permission to sync with this server"
I'm using the same email exchange log in infromation as I have used on my Xoom. No problems there.
I tired using Touchdown and had the same results.
Any ideas?
Thanks

elcap373 said:
I just got my Gnex. It updated to Android 4.04. I try to set up email with my office Exchange account and it fails. The error message says "you don't have permission to sync with this server"
I'm using the same email exchange log in infromation as I have used on my Xoom. No problems there.
I tired using Touchdown and had the same results.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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sounds like the server itself is rejecting your login.
maybe the company only allows one mobile device with your credentials?
i would remove exchange from your xoom and then try. if it allows you to connect then, there's your answer

I think that is unlikely.. I had a moto dinc syncing fine and upgraded to the nexus.
The dinc and zoom synced fine in parallel.. The dinc is now turned off.

elcap373 said:
I think that is unlikely.. I had a moto dinc syncing fine and upgraded to the nexus.
The dinc and zoom synced fine in parallel.. The dinc is now turned off.
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that is the only thing I could think of.
It looks like the server is rejecting your login however.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

reminds me of an old girlfriend......

There's an option to trigger the security certificates or something - forgot the exact wording, but when I tapped that, I could get into my office Exchange server.
Of course, I like to keep my office things in the office so I quickly disabled the email app.

Ya, there are two dialog boxes:
User secure connection (SSL)
Accept all SSL certificates
My Xoom account shows the first checked. The second not.
Using the same configuration - I get the message that I don't have permission to sync with the server.
When I check the Accept all SSL certificates - I get the same message.

When I go through the setup on my Xoom after completing the inputs - I get the following message:
'This server requires that you allow it to remotely control some security features of your Android device. Do you want to finish setting up this account?'
Is there something about ICS 4.04 running on the Gnex that would pose a problem with this security handshake?
I'm running an ICS 4.04 Cyanogen Mod nightly on my Xoom. I had Gingerbread on my Dinc before I switched to the Gnex. The email exchange sync worked fine on the Dinc.

When I have time I may root and load a custom ROM on it and see if that makes a difference. Although I'd prefer to stay stock for a while - just to get used to the thing.
If anyone has insight into the security issues - I'd appreciate hearing it. A quick Google search of issues relating to Exchange sync shows that there are issues with the Gnex and Exchange handshake. Some people have had to encrypt their phone to get it to work?!?
Certainly this must have been worked out by someone...
Thanks for any suggestions

elcap373 said:
'This server requires that you allow it to remotely control some security features of your Android device. Do you want to finish setting up this account?'
Is there something about ICS 4.04 running on the Gnex that would pose a problem with this security handshake?
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That's a common message to see depending on the security policies your Exchange Server administrator has established. Among other things, for example, your company probably requires the ability to do a remote wipe of your handset's email should the account be compromised, your device be reported stolen, or you quit or be fired.
Perfectly normal. My company does this as well, and it works beautifully with my Galaxy Nexus...no device encryption needed, and I'm running ICS 4.0.4 IMM76K - one Exchange Server account via the stock email client, and one GMail account via that stock app. All works beautifully.
Jon
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