The following is an example of how to create and apply a new policy to automatically set up Mail, Contacts and Calendar for each user on iOS mobile device using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol to synchronize these services.īefore you begin setting this policy up, make sure you've already performed the steps described under Mobile Device Management.Įnter a Name for this policy. If you do not use Microsoft Exchange or Exchange ActiveSync, you can manually configure each service ( Mail Accounts, Contacts Accounts, LDAP Accounts, Calendar Accounts and Subscribed Calendar Accounts).
You need to specify a variable, for example $ and this will be replaced with a value from the AD for a particular user. This is possible using Active Directory user attributes. The advantage of using such a policy is that you only need to create one policy which you can then apply to many iOS mobile devices without the need to configure each separately. You can use this policy to configure a Microsoft Exchange Mail account, Contacts and Calendar on user's iOS mobile devices. See the sample scenario below which explains how to use the iOS MDM policy when you want to set up a Microsoft Exchange Mail account: