Comparison of Exchange ActiveSync Clients

Comparison table of Exchange ActiveSync
Exchange ActiveSync
Exchange ActiveSync is an XML-based protocol that communicates over HTTP designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes from a messaging server to a mobile device...

clients¹⁴
Company	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...	Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...	Apple Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...	Nokia Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...	Nokia Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...	Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...	Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...	Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...	Notify Corp.	Palm Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...	MailSite Software Inc.
Product	Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...	Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...	Windows Phone Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...	Windows Phone Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...	iPhone IPhone The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007... /iPod IPod iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle... (iOS)	Mail for Exchange(Symbian)	Mail for Exchange(Maemo 5)	Android	Android	Android	NotifySync	WebOS (Pre Palm Pre The Palm Pre is a multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The smartphone was the first to use Palm's Linux based mobile operating system, webOS... /Pixi Palm Pixi The Palm Pixi and Pixi Plus are multimedia smartphones, developed by Palm, which was purchased in 2010 by HP. The device is viewed as a successor to the Palm Centro smartphone and was Palm's second webOS device, after the Palm Pre.... )	AstraSync
Version	6.1	6.5	7.0	7.5 Mango	5.0	3.0.50	PR 1.2	2.2, 2.3	3.0, 3.1 Honeycomb	4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich	4.10	1.4.5	4.1
Exchange ActiveSync 2.5 - Exchange Server 2003 SP2
Features:
Direct Push
Email sync
Calendar sync												Yes⁹
Contacts sync
Tasks Sync
Remote wipe						Yes¹¹
Sync multiple folders
GAL lookup					Yes²							Yes⁸
SSL encrypted transmission
Exchange ActiveSync 12.0 - Exchange Server 2007
Features:
User started remote wipe (server side)						Yes¹¹
Link Access
HTML email
Server Search
Set Out of Facility/Office (OOF)
Follow-up flags								Yes¹⁵	Yes¹⁵	Yes¹⁵
Meeting attendee information
PIN reset
AutoDiscover
Bandwidth reduction											Yes¹⁹
Policies:
Allow attachment download (client side)						No¹⁷
Maximum attachment size
Enable password recovery
Allow simple password
Password expiration (days)
Enforce password history
Encrypt storage card
Exchange ActiveSync 12.1 - Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Features:
Cancel remote wipe (server side)
Remote wipe confirmation
Default mobile policy (server side)
Bandwidth reductions (compressed/removed headers)
S/MIME¹³
Policies:
Disable desktop ActiveSync			Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁸
Disable removable storage			Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁸
Disable camera
Disable SMS text messaging
Disable Wi-Fi
Disable Bluetooth
Disable IrDA			Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁸
Allow internet sharing from device			Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁸
Allow desktop sharing from device			Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁸
Disable POP3/IMAP4 email
Allow consumer email
Allow browser
Allow unsigned applications
Allow unsigned CABs
Application allow list
Application block list
Require signed S/MIME messages
Require encrypted S/MIME messages
Require signed S/MIME algorithm
Require encrypted S/MIME algorithm
Allow S/MIME encrypted algorithm negotiation
Allow S/MIME SoftCerts
Allow device encryption					Yes¹⁶
Require device encryption					Yes¹⁶
Minimum number of complex characters
Configure message formats (HTML or plain text)
Include past email items (Days)
Email body truncation size (KB)
HTML email body truncation size (KB)
Include past calendar items (Days)
Require manual sync while roaming
Exchange ActiveSync 14.0 - Exchange Server 2010
Features:
Conversation View	Yes¹				No¹²
Move always	Yes¹
Reply state	Yes¹
UM card (client side only)	Yes¹
Free/Busy lookup	Yes¹
Nickname cache	Yes¹
SMS sync	Yes¹	Yes¹						Yes²⁰	Yes²⁰
Downloadable client	Yes¹												Yes ³
Notes sync
Policies:
Allow mobile OTA update	Yes¹
Mobile OTA update mode	Yes¹
Exchange ActiveSync 14.1 - Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Features:
Conversation segments	Yes¹	Yes¹
GAL Photos	Yes¹	Yes¹
IRM support	Yes¹	Yes¹
Block/Allow/Quarantine List (device info)					No¹⁰	No¹⁰		No¹⁰	No¹⁰		No¹⁰	No¹⁰	No¹⁰
Allow attachment download (server side)
Policies:
Allow IRM over EAS	Yes¹	Yes¹
Exchange ActiveSync 14.2 - Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Features:
Policies:

Notes:

¹ Requires free Outlook Mobile update

² Only finds email address, phone numbers, title and company

³ 3rd party downloadable client available for purchase for RIM BlackBerry devices

⁴ Because this is an application, a remote wipe wipes all data in the application but not the entire device

⁵ S/MIME performance depends on how S/MIME is used

⁶ Encryption is for the applications memory and not the entire device

⁷ Policy is available but is client-side only and thus does not respond to server-side policy settings

⁸ Phone number and email address only

⁹ can only create personal calendar entry, no meeting requests

¹⁰ Info is derived from other info sent from the device as opposed to sent in the protocol

¹¹ E series devices do a full wipe while N series devices only do a wipe of the Exchange data

¹² Some devices have a conversation view which is simply grouped by subject and is not the EAS based conversation view feature

¹³ S/MIME was not included in EAS 12.0 so it was added back at this point (it had been in EAS 2.5)

¹⁴ Information in this chart is additive. This means that information that is listed for a later version of Exchange ActiveSync does not list the features of the previous version but the product does include them. Compatibility in an earlier version indicates compatibility in the later version unless otherwise noted.

¹⁵ Follow-up flags are implemented as "stars" on the device.

¹⁶ Device encryption is only supported on iPhone 3GS hardware and later. These devices are encrypted by default, therefore this setting is only used to check the devices status if the 'Allow non-Provisional Devices' policy is set (and the box unchecked). Once this is configured, earlier devices report back that they do not support device encryption and therefore access to Exchange will be blocked.

¹⁷ N900 is a non-provisionable device and does not support any policies. However, attachment downloading is always possible.

¹⁸ Device says it respects this policy but no device changes are made.

¹⁹ Supports gzip compression.

²⁰ Some native device support with newer 2.3 phones. Also 3rd party Android Apps (ie Touchdown) have added support for SMS Sync.

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