[Q] Anyone familiar with Exchange ActiveSync policy?

[sipple31]

I work for a medical practice. We need to keep strict EAS policies such as force PIN or password, force Encryption, allow remote wipe, timeouts, etc. No exceptions if you want to have corporate e-mail on your mobile... and I simply can't live without it.

Anyways... I'm here to talk about biometrics. I think on Exchange 2013 they just patched in the ability to allow BM separately... but what about the rest of us who will be on 2010 for a good while longer? The iPhone totally has us beat in this category. We did some testing yesterday... and the iPhone 5S is actually "smart" enough to just push your set PIN into the phone on unlock and allows the continued use of BM. With my GS5, since BM is a completely different (unlinked) feature, it is greyed out. No BM for me. :crying:

I'm just curious if anyone else has dug into this? I have been taking a lot of flak from all my IT cohorts that I still need to use a PIN.

 

[initial_k]

I work for a medical practice. We need to keep strict EAS policies such as force PIN or password, force Encryption, allow remote wipe, timeouts, etc. No exceptions if you want to have corporate e-mail on your mobile... and I simply can't live without it.

Anyways... I'm here to talk about biometrics. I think on Exchange 2013 they just patched in the ability to allow BM separately... but what about the rest of us who will be on 2010 for a good while longer? The iPhone totally has us beat in this category. We did some testing yesterday... and the iPhone 5S is actually "smart" enough to just push your set PIN into the phone on unlock and allows the continued use of BM. With my GS5, since BM is a completely different (unlinked) feature, it is greyed out. No BM for me. :crying:

I'm just curious if anyone else has dug into this? I have been taking a lot of flak from all my IT cohorts that I still need to use a PIN.

If you want to use the Finger Print reader to unlock on your phone and a pin just for your email, you can use email apps like Touchdown instead of the default email application. So the only time you would have to enter a pin is when you open touchdown app, not to unlock your phone.