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Hi! My name is Cine, and in this video I'm going
to show you how to synchronize your Zimbra mailbox and your iOS device through ZeXtras
Mobile along with some interesting Provisioning features.
ZeXtras Suite uses the widespread Exchange ActiveSync protocol, so in order to set up
the synchronization you need to create a new "Microsoft Exchange" mail account. You can
do so by entering the "Settings" menu, tapping on "Mail, Contacts, Calendar", tap on "Add
Account" and finally on "Microsoft Exchange". You will be prompted to enter your email address
and password along with a Description for the account. Tap "Next" and you will be also
prompted to enter your server's URL, your domain and your username.
Tap next again, and after a quick validation of the informations you entered you'll be
able to choose which items you wish to synchronize. The synchronization timespan can be changed
in the account properties once the setup is completed.
As you can see, as soon as I finished setting up the account, my device prompted me to enter
a security code to be used to unlock the device. This is one of the Provisioning feature I
mentioned earlier: the ability to remotely enforce security policies on a synchronized
device. Another Provisioning policy enforced on this
devices is called "feature lock", and allows the administrator to forbid the use of some
of the device's feature to the user. Did you notice that the "Safari" icon disappeared
as soon as the account was configured? This is because I disabled the "browser" feature
through mobile provisioning. I could also show you the "Wipe Device" feature
which remotely resets a device to factory default, but the iPad I'm using for this demo
belongs to my boss, and I'd really like to avoid being fired ;) .
Back to the synchronization: the account is now configured, and as you can see Items already
appeared on the device. Opening the "Mail" app you'll be able to interact with your emails
in real time thanks to ZeXtras Mobile's Push technology. Same thing goes for the Calendar,
Tasks and Contacts apps. Also, any time you run a search within your emails you will be
able to extend the search to all items which are not currently synchronized so that you'll
be able to have full access to your data without having to synchronize your whole mailbox.
Speaking of the Contacts app, ZeXtras Mobile allows you to easily search your domain's
GAL straight from your device. This are nothing but a fraction of ZeXtras
Suite's features, if you want to know more about it visit www.zextras.com and download
the free 30-days trial. This is all for this video, thank you for
watching and have a nice day!