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TUAW reports that a number of iPhone users who hit updated to iPhone OS 3.1 are uncovering themselves unable to admittance their Microsoft Exchange accounts due to device contradictoriness with Exchange's server-side encryption. While the iPhone 3GS supports this device-level encryption, other iPhone and iPod contact models do not. Non-3GS devices had been healthy to admittance Exchange systems utilizing the coding choice on iPhone OS 3.0, but the knowledge was ostensibly an fault on Apple's conception that has been rectified in iPhone OS 3.1.

While some are reacting to this supply as though it's a bug, and are news it as such, the actuality is that the Exchange coding responsibility is a feature and the fact that it was not existence correctly implemented was actually a section hole. IT administrators with Exchange 2007 SP1 servers and iPhone clients are belike going to be fielding an above-average level of incoming questions, but at small they crapper rest cushy knowing that Exchange coding is today working correctly. Cold richness for their users, though.

Apple today posted a hold writing addressing the issue, noting that the exclusive recommend solution at this time is for affected users' system administrators to disable the device coding choice for syncing.