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Similar to the previous post regarding provisioning iPhones for Exchange servers, the same can be done with Windows Mobile (though I don’t yet know how this will changes with Windows 7 Mobile).  I haven’t found a nice utility to do this, so your relegated to hand coding a .xml file, but it’s no biggie.

If your situation is similar to mine, you have many remote users with mobile phones.  There are times when they need to replace the phone while traveling or something else happens that requires resetting up the phone to connect to your mail server.  We require our self-signed certificate to be installed on the phone, coupled with needing to know all the settings it can be frustrating to help setup a phone, over a phone.

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If your company is anything like the one I work with, iPhone and iPad usage is picking up steam.  Users are purchasing them and wanting them to sync with their Exchange mailboxes.  Rather than trying to walk all the sales folks who are 1500 miles away through the setup, building a .mobileprofile can save a great deal of time, while creating a standardized setup.  It is especially useful you use self-signed certificates as they can be included in the .mobileprofile file that is created.

First things first, you need to download Apple’s “iPhone Configuration Utility”.  The latest version for Mac or Windows can be found at http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/.  I guess if you’re a real man you can just create the file by hand, but their application makes it pretty easy.

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