Configuring Microsoft Exchange Direct Push technology

Microsoft Exchange Server has long had the capability of sending messages to mobile devices, but the SMS-based synchronization process was expensive and users did not immediately receive new email messages. In Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft introduced a new and improved synchronization technology called Direct Push that eliminates these issues. It also offers the ability to apply security policies to your mobile devices. In this tutorial, Exchange MVP Brien Posey explains how Direct Push technology works and explains how to configure and implement Direct Push in an Exchange 2003 SP2 email environment.

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Before SP2, Exchange Server 2003 would notify a mobile device that new email had arrived by sending it an SMS message. The mobile device would then initiate a synchronization with the Exchange Server to download the email. <

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p>There are several drawbacks to this approach to mobile-device synchronization:

To address these problems, Microsoft developed a new synchronization technology called Direct Push. Direct Push was originally introduced in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2, but is also used in Exchange Server 2007. In this tutorial, all configuration instructions refer to Exchange 2003 SP2 Direct Push and Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 devices.

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