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UPDATE! This has been fixed – download the newest iTunes version to update the firmware on your device.
I have the joy of working with a few iPhone’s in our exchange environment and have been watching Apple’s advances with the device closely over the past year or so. Exchange support has improved greatly in this time, however it still needs work. Earlier this week, what seems to be a known bug has been nipping at a few of our users. Basically what happens is that users who upgrade to 3.0 when it came out and had exchange synchronizing before the update experience a glitch involving meeting invites. If a meeting is scheduled to a distribution list that the organizer is included in, the iPhone will send pointless updates out to all over and over again. This was annoying as many of our officers send meetings to distribution groups on a weekly basis. The workaround (emphasis on workaround, not fix) is to remove the sync and reconfigure it. So far it has worked well but only time will tell. Check out the details here.
So today 3.0.1 was released and I had hoped that this would address the issue. Not to mention the fact that the other part of that bug is that random calendar entries do not show up on the iPhone since 3.0 as well. So was this included? No. Instead the released a fix to secure the vulnerability in SMS messaging. Of course this is important, and a very high priority. They were able to take care of this patch within a week, so what is up with the slow development on exchange capability? I would not doubt that MS is slow to work with Apple, but they have to be losing out on some huge market share because of the open issues with exchange. It’s noted all over the place in forums that businesses are holding back on deployment of the iPhone until these issues are cleared up. My point here – we all know Apple has an amazing development team, so why haven’t these been cleared up yet?
Issues with exchange and the iPhone played a huge role in making the recent switch to Blackberry for our end users (our partners get the option of either) – and I am confident in saying that we have not been the only ones. Get your act together Apple!
UPDATE! This has been fixed – download the newest iTunes version to update the firmware on your device.
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