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GMS & Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync

GMS Solutions

GMS has been developing innovative messaging solutions for a global customer base since 1994, beginning with NTMail - the first on-premise email server running under Windows NT.

Our success is rooted in our philosophy that a high quality, reliable and powerful email solution requires a service that’s focused on the needs of our customer – throughout their relationship with us.

Backed by our world class GMS Expert Support and customer service teams, the range of GMS solutions bring all the features you would expect from an enterprise-grade, messaging solution, coupled with flexible licensing options for both on-premise and cloud.

GMS:

• On-premise or cloud licensing

• Industry leading malware protection

• Core POP, IMAP, SMPTP functionality

• Outlook optimised

• Groupware enabled

• Mobile connectivity

• Powerful webmail with desktop client equivalent capabilities

• Migration and porting utilities

• Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync for GMS - wireless mobile synchronisation of personal Contacts/Calendar data

• Contact sharing

• Calendar sharing

• Task management integration

• Instant messaging & presence indicators

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GMS Solutions

Features:

• Enterprise-grade email messaging

• Powerful webmail with desktop client equivalent capabilities

• Migration and porting utilities

• Groupware optimised

• Outlook optimised

• Wireless mobile synchronisation of personal Contacts/Calendar data using Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync

• Contact Sharing

• Calendar Sharing

• Task Management Integration

• Instant Messaging & Presence Indicators

• Integrated Enterprise-level Malware Protection

Tech Stuff

• All points SSL/TLS Encryption

• IMAP, POP3, SMTP & HTTP

• Auto Responder Support

• Custom MAPI integration to Microsoft Outlook

• Free/Busy Lookup

• Role Based Access Control

• IMAP IDLE for Mobile Access

• Integrated Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync (*optional bolt-on)

• Zero Hour Malware Protection

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ActiveSync in GMS

Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync for GMS is licensed separately from other core components. This permits flexible deployment options to cater for user populations where demand varies. For example: A 100 user population may have 50% of users requiring over-the-air (OTA) synchronisation of PIM data. This model allows for more economical deployment of key functionality for more advanced/remote/mobile users.

In addition to OTA synchronisation of personal calendar and contact data - GMS solutions offer comprehensive mobile accessibility options, including native support for email for almost any mobile device.

Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync for GMS is supported by close integration into the core groupware (collaboration) tools. GMS uses a custom MAPI client to connect to Outlook and enable the comprehensive sharing capabilities for both the GMS webmail and Outlook clients (the data view is identical from each client and changes will ripple automatically). OTA capability deployment for personal and calendar synchronisation requires a complementary usage of the collaboration features. Typically a collaboration license matching the number of users that require this OTA functionality is installed.

Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync

Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync is an XML-based protocol that communicates over HTTP (or HTTPS). It is used to synchronise email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes between a messaging server and a mobile device without the need to install a client application on the mobile device. The protocol also provides mobile device management and policy controls.

Initially a client will use the Autodiscover command to get a user’s account configuration. The client can then view and modify server data related to that account, this data can include email messages and attachments, folders, contacts, and calendar requests. The client then uses the Provision command to send device information to the server and to get and subsequently acknowledge security policy settings from the server. Next, the client uses the FolderSync command to retrieve the folder hierarchy of the user.

• This initial implementation of Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync for GMS supports:

• Autodiscover - The Autodiscover command facilitates the discovery of core account configuration information by using the user’s Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) address as the primary input.

• FolderSync - The FolderSync command synchronises the collection hierarchy but does not synchronise the items in the collections themselves.

• Sync - The Sync command synchronizes changes in a collection between the client and the server.

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GMS & Sharing

Inclusion of Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync for GMS is a natural extension of the comprehensive groupware and sharing capability of the solutions. GMS is groupware optimised for Outlook - powerful collaboration capabilities mean that work groups can easily and quickly share and modify content. Integrated with the GMS webmail client, the core groupware facilities are extended to both Outlook and the native webmail client.

Interoperability and integration is key to the GMS design philosophy; the groupware experience (enabled with the collaboration feature) is enhanced with key capabilities:

• Contact Sharing & Management

• Calendar Sharing & Management

• Task Sharing & Management

• Interoperable between webmail and static clients

• Custom Outlook MAPI connector

• Support for Outlook 2007/2010/2013

• Free/busy support

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Setting up EAS on Android Devices

Step 1

Go to settings and then ‘Accounts and Sync’

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Step 2

Hit ‘Add Account’ and then select either ‘Corporate’ or ‘Exchange active sync’ if it’s available.

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Step 3

Enter in your email address and password here

Step 4

Enter in your server details here, followed by the port number. Eg. Server.yourservername.com:8376 (Default ports are 8376 for non-ssl and 8377 for ssl encryption)

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Step 5

Select what you want to sync and decide what you want to call the account name.

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Setting up EAS on iOS Devices

Step 1

Open settings then go to ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’

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Step 2

Hit ‘add account’ then select ‘Exchange’



Step 3

Then enter in your email address and password



Step 4

Enter in your server name here, after your server name, please enter the port number (Default ports are 8376 for non-ssl and 8377 for ssl encryption) eg. Server.yourservername.com:8376



Step 5

Enter your username (this is what’s before @youremailaddress.com)

Step 6

Select what you wish to sync eg. Mail, Calendars, Contacts, Reminders (Mail is not currently supported, so if any error messages occur after setup, simply accept the message and then ‘untick’ the mail option and it’ll work)



Setting up EAS on Windows Phone

Step 1

Open Settings and then go to ‘Email + Account’, followed by ‘Add Account’.



Step 2

Select Outlook (Exchange) from the list of available account types, and then enter the following information:



Step 3

Then enter in your email address and password.



Step 4

Select Next to continue. The setup wizard will try to automatically set up your email account. Keep pressing ‘Sign In’ until you’re prompted with the ‘Advanced’ option. Then hit ‘Advanced’.



Step 5

In the server name box, enter your server name followed by the port number (server.yourservername.com:8376. The default ports are 8376 for non-SSL and 8377 for SSL), and then select which content you desire to sync.

Step 6

Then hit ‘Sign In’ to finalise the account creation.

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