Testing client connectivity

After configuring the base settings for Exchange, we should now have an Exchange organization with client access, mail connectivity, and high availability. We should now be ready to perform a few basic tests, and then connect our first iPhone to the new Exchange Server infrastructure.

Creating a test Mailbox

Before we can test anything, we need to create a test Mailbox. By default, the Administrator account on our domain has been enabled as a Mailbox. As a Domain Admin we won't be able to pair an ActiveSync device with the Administrator account due to default security settings; this is a sensible best practice so we won't change this.