Mobile-enabled servers and services
ZDNet | at | by Mike
With a newly designed connection manager, it's now trivial to make a connection to the corporate network or to the Internet. And to secure the connection, WM2k3 adds support for multiple VPNs, 802.1x, IPSec L2TP tunnels, and encryption, using 128-bit SSL and/or 128-bit CAPI. WM2k3 devices have all the necessary protocol support required to connect securely to a company's internal network.
In addition to the simple file access and terminal services support inherent in its device, Microsoft is also introducing key new Server and Services functionality later this year. At its annual TechEd conference in early June, Microsoft distributed a copy of Release Candidate 1 of its upcoming Exchange Server 2003. In just under four hours, I installed a configuration with Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 that allowed me to remotely synchronize my Pocket PC device directly from the server without requiring a desktop with ActiveSync loaded.