Comments on: Stay with Exchange ActiveSync or Embrace Outlook Mobile?

By: Prakash

Prakash — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:23:29 +0000

Also it seems there is no option for outlook mobile policies for things like set max age limit. They seem to work only for eas but not for olk mobile. Intune too lacks these capabilites.

By: Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:10:21 +0000

In reply to Tony Redmond. Is anyone working on fixing the Outlook Mobile app's functionality with iOS Contacts?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:56:15 +0000

In reply to Brian. You're absolutely correct that the Outlook app is less functional for Contact integration. That's always the case for third-party apps that don't have the same close integration with the O/S as first-party apps do. However, I think its calendar integration is top-notch, especially when dealing with aspects like Teams meetings.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:42:55 +0000

While the Outlook app on mobile has gotten more feature functional, it still suffers for proper Contact and Calendar integration to the native device. That’s the loudest complaint from our users.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:29:45 +0000

In reply to Hal Sclater. That's certainly an opinion (that EAS mail clients aren't used in large deployments due to the security risk). Unhappily for the theory, the evidence of the transition away from basic authentication indicates that tens of millions of iOS mail clients (and many other EAS mail clients) are running inside Microsoft 365 tenants today... and not all SME tenants.

By: Hal Sclater

Hal Sclater — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 07:25:51 +0000

Nice article Tony, but the main issue with EAS clients such as iOS mail are that they can’t be managed by Intune and are therefore a security risk. For this reason, most larger organizations don’t allow anything other than Outlook on mobile, all your points are valid but more applicable to SMEs since security wins in larger orgs. Thanks