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Remotely wiping mobile phones

Remotely wiping mobile phones

Posted Sep 17, 2010 4:25 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Remotely wiping mobile phones by giraffedata
Parent article: Remotely wiping mobile phones

It's called Outlook Web Access and, I gotta admit, it's pretty nice!

But you're right -- it's far too heavy to be used over Edge or 3G data connections, and it would take a ton of work to get it to work in current mobile browsers.


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Remotely wiping mobile phones

Posted Sep 17, 2010 19:43 UTC (Fri) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

When you admitted to liking Outlook Web Access, does this include sending mail or only checking mail?

If you do use it to send mail, please give me a hint on how to send a genuine plain text message using Outlook Web Access.

Remotely wiping mobile phones

Posted Sep 17, 2010 22:26 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Heh, maybe the secret to liking OWA is to have low expectations. It's a surprisingly decent web app.

As far as its capability as a mailer.... well, this was in a Microsoft-laden corporate environment. I sent and received nothing but HTML-encoded top-posted disasters, each with a 75 MB PowerPoint attachment.

Remotely wiping mobile phones

Posted Sep 17, 2010 23:21 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

> well, this was in a Microsoft-laden corporate environment. I sent and received nothing but HTML-encoded top-posted disasters, each with a 75 MB PowerPoint attachment.

Well, at least your microsoft-laden environment was better than most! Many installations of Exchange have some ridiculously low per-user storage size limit, like 25MB.

Remotely wiping mobile phones

Posted Sep 20, 2010 13:03 UTC (Mon) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]

This is something that the administrator gets to set on a global and per-domain basis.

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