So I finally broke down and got an iPhone the other day. I couldn't help it since Rick got one last November I have been jealous ever since.
The first order of the day was to put the Exchange mail on the iPhone, but I wondered would the SBS 2008 Self-issued certificate work? So here is what I did:
1. Go to settings>mail, contacts, calendars>Add account>Exchange, you then enter your account info such as e-mail address, username and password. The iPhone will try to verify your account information and come back asking for the Exchange server FQDN. (ie. mail.exchangeserver.com). Next you will receive a notification stating "unable to verify certificate" and I accepted that, and then selected what to sync with Active Sync (Mail, Contacts, Calendars). by default the iPhone will sync 3 days but you can change that to unlimited if you dare.
At this point the email account looked like this - Note on the bottom under description there is nothing else. So the phone is syncing my mail now, but it is not using a SSL.
2. The next step was that I extracted and copied the SBS Self-issued certificate from the Install Certificate Package.zip (downlad from the SBS server Public\downloads folder) and attached it to an e-mail to myself
ok, that is not the smartest way mailing the cert to yourself not using SSL yet, but hey, first I needed to find out if the cert will even work! The iPhone will recognize x-pkcs12, p12, pfx, x-x509-ca-cert, cert, crt and der file extensions. When you click on the certificate, it will launch a Install Profile screen
So here is the cert, not verified but that is ok since it is the SBS Self-issued cert and I trust my own server. Also you see that it recognizes that it contains the Root Certificate. Click Install.
and click Install Now, and the cert will be installed on the device. Next I went back to the Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars, my account info and voila, here it was , using the SBS 2008 self-issued certificate! (oh yes and I am still getting mail :) )
Having said that, there is the proper way to install the certificate on the iPhone using the iPhone configuration utility located at http://support.apple.com/downloads/iPhone_Configuration_Utility_1_1_for_Windows, take your pick.
Anyhow, I can now go back to the reason why I got the iPhone in the first place, and that is to play one of my favorite old DOS game remakes (used to be called Scorched Earth) which is now an iPhone app (iShoot) and an excellent fun time waster!
