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Installing Configuration Profiles

If you’re in an enterprise environment, you may be able to set up accounts and other items on iPhone by installing a configuration profile. Configuration profiles provide a way for system administrators to quickly set up your iPhone to work with the information systems at your company, school, or organization. For example, a configuration profile might set up your iPhone to access the Microsoft Exchange servers at work, enabling iPhone to access your Exchange email, calendars, and contacts.

Configuration profiles can configure multiple settings on iPhone all at once. For example, a configuration profile can set up your Microsoft Exchange account, VPN account, and certificates for secure access to your company’s network and information. A configuration profile may turn on the Passcode Lock, requiring you to create and enter a passcode for using iPhone.

Your system administrator may distribute configuration profiles by email or by putting them on a secure webpage.

Install a configuration profile:

1. Using iPhone, open the email message or download the configuration profile from the website provided by your system administrator.
2. When the configuration profile opens, tap Install.
3. Enter passwords and other information as requested.

IMPORTANT: You may be asked to verify that the configuration profile is trusted. If in doubt, consult your syste Click to continue »

Push Accounts

MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, and Yahoo! Mail are known as “push� accounts. When new information is available, such as the arrival of an email message, the information is automatically delivered (pushed) to your computer or to iPhone. (In contrast, “fetch� services require your email software to periodically check with your service provider to see if new messages have arrived, and then request them to be delivered.) MobileMe and Exchange also sync your contacts, calendars, and bookmarks (MobileMe only) in the same way. For example, if you add a contact to the address book on your computer, the new contact is automatically pushed to iPhone as well as to any other computer or device configured with the service.

Synced information is transferred automatically over your wireless connection; you don’t need to connect iPhone to your computer to sync. If you don’t have a cellular connection, iPhone can receive pushed data over a Wi-Fi connection when iPhone is awake (the screen is on, or iPhone is connected to your computer or a power adapter).

Setting Up Accounts

MobileMe and Microsoft Exchange provide not only email, but contact and calendar information that can be synced to iPhone automatically, over the air. MobileMe can also sync your Safari bookmarks. You set up MobileMe, Exchange, and other email accounts directly on iPhone.

iPhone uses the Exchange ActiveSync protocol to sync email, calendars, and contacts with the following versions of Microsoft Exchange:

• Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2
• Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

For many of the popular email accounts, iPhone automatically enters most of the settings for you.

If you don’t have already have one, you can get a free email account online at www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, or www.aol.com. You can also try MobileMe, free for 60 days. Go to www.me.com.

Add an account on iPhone:

1. From iPhone’s Home screen, tap Settings.
2. Tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars,� then tap Add Account.
3. Tap an account type:
   • Microsoft Exchange
   • MobileMe
   • Google email
   • Yahoo! Mail
   • AOL
   • Other
4. Enter your account information and tap Save.

   Your service provider or system administrator can provide the accounts settings you need.

5. If you’re setting up a MobileMe or Exchange account, tap to enable mail, contacts, calendars, and bookmarks (MobileMe only). Then tap Save.

   IMPORTANT: If you turn on contacts or calendars in a MobileMe or Exchange account, syncing for contacts or calendars in iTunes is turned off. Any contact or calendar information on iPhone is replaced by the contacts and calendars from your MobileMe or Exchange account.

Preventing Automatic Syncing

You may want to prevent iPhone from syncing automatically when you connect iPhone to a computer other than the one you usually sync with.

Turn off automatic syncing for iPhone:

Connect iPhone to your computer. In iTunes, select iPhone in the sidebar, then click the Summary tab. Deselect “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected.� You can always sync by clicking the Sync button.

Prevent automatic syncing for all iPhones:

In iTunes choose iTunes > Preferences (on a Mac) or Edit > Preferences (on a PC), click Syncing, and select “Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones and iPods.�

If this checkbox is selected, iPhone won’t sync automatically, even if “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected� is selected in the Summary pane.

Prevent automatic syncing one time, without changing settings:

Open iTunes. Then, as you connect iPhone to your computer, press and hold Command-Option (on a Mac) or Shift-Control (on a PC) until you see iPhone appear in the sidebar. Click to continue »

iPhone Settings Panes in iTunes

The following sections provide an overview of each of the iPhone settings panes. For more information, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Summary Pane

Select “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected� to have iTunes sync iPhone automatically whenever you connect it to your computer. Deselect this option if you want to sync only by clicking the Sync button in iTunes.

Select “Sync only checked songs and videos� if you want to sync only items that are individually checked in your iTunes library.

Select “Manually manage music and videos� to turn off automatic syncing in the Music and Video settings panes.

Info Pane

The Info pane lets you configure the sync settings for your contacts, calendars, email accounts, and web browser. Click to continue »