WWDC Day 2 Session: Integrating iPhone into the Enterprise

This session centered on deploying iPhone 3.0 into the enterprise.

It’s about 8:40AM PDT, and I’m in the Mission room waiting for the Integrating iPhone into the Enterprise session to begin. Apple is blasting Lady Gaga and Pink through the PA system. It’s kind of like a Top 40 dance club vibe, sans drinks.

This particular session, as well as some others I’ll attend later, is geared towards enterprise IT pros more so than iPhone programmers.

Following is Apple’s description of the session. “iPhone has become a leading choice for mobile professionals. Find out about configuring and deploying iPhone in your organization, learn tools and techniques for configuration and deployment of native and web-based iPhone applications, and discover how server-side technologies integrate with iPhone, all from the IT professional's perspective.”

It’s now 8:57AM PDT and Apple’s playing the Ting Tings.

There’s no window to jump out of, so I guess I’ll just tough it out.

Presenter: John Wright, Core OS Software Engineering

Apple considers the iPhone a new mobile business platform

JD Power Associates – iPhone Manufacturer Apple Ranks Highest in Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction (old news)

Some of the New Security and Networking Oriented Features of iPhone 3.0

• Certificate based authentication to Exchange.
• New EAS policies (still no specific details, but I do know that Allow Camera (true/false) is one of them)
• LDAP Support: ability to specify LDAP search paths. This allows users to query the corporate LDAP server directly through the Contacts app on the iPhone. This should be most applicable to non-Exchange environments
• VPN On Demand.
• Proxy support for VPNs (no specific details on this yet)
• Wi-Fi Configuration
• Captive network support
• Extensions to configuration profiles
• Should now support restrictions
• Should now be able to prevent the end user from deleting a config profile from the phone.
• Support for SCEP