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Secure your mobile email with Microsoft EMS and Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android

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Mayunk_Jain
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Apr 02, 2019

 

(This post is co-authored by Adrian Moore, Senior Program Manager, and Mayunk Jain, Product Manager, Microsoft 365 Security, with expert contributions by Saud Al-Mishari and Ross Smith)

 

 

Whether you have an official BYOD (bring your own device) policy or not, chances are you caught up on some work email this weekend on your mobile phone. If so, you’re not alone; more than 80% of employees admit using non-approved SaaS apps for work purposes, including mobile email. What is worth noting, is that 63% of confirmed data breaches involve weak, default, or stolen passwords. According to Verizon's 2018 Breach Investigations report, 92 percent of malware is still delivered by email. 

 

As an IT leader investing in Microsoft 365 modern workplace to meet cyber-security challenges head-on, secure email access is likely to be a key part of your strategy. In this article, we take a technical deep dive into the integrated approach of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android devices, that we consider the gold standard of secure mobile email access.

 

 

How it works

Let us dig deeper and explore the configuration settings to deliver the rich experience of Microsoft secure mobile email. To read the full article, scroll vertically in the Sway below

 

 

 

Updated Oct 23, 2019
Version 6.0
Unified Endpoint Management

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  • LarryKuhn's avatar
    LarryKuhn
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    Apr 03, 2019

    On Android currently I can opt for 3 day portrait view and it switches to week view when I rotate to landscape  Very nice  

  • Ross Smith IV's avatar
    Ross Smith IV
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    Apr 02, 2019
    wroot - this feature rolled out about a month ago, so don't worry about that. Thanks for the feedback regarding discoverability. We'll definitely look at ways to improve discovering features in the app.
  • wroot's avatar
    wroot
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    Apr 02, 2019

    It was maybe 5 months ago, so i can't remember exactly or find fitting screenshots for comparison. I have installed Outlook for him and he didn't like that he couldn't see just whole current week (or month) in one screen without dragging or swiping. We didn't try to rotate it into a landscape view, though maybe it wasn't available yet at that point and as i have mentioned i found it not intuitive. Also don't like hidden features when you have no indication or hint that this should happen. When you press on a button, you see no week option and automatically assume there is no week view.

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    wroot
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    Apr 02, 2019

    I wonder how many users will found out that you have to turn your phone into landscape mode. 90% of a time mail and calendar is used in portrait mode. Also, in landscape mode i get a floating view, not strictly week view and i still have to drag vertically to see all events. Btw, i don't have events on this phone, so maybe it automatically zooms out to fit all events. I have 5,5 inch phone, many have even bigger. I think i could have all week view on my screen without dragging.

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    Ross Smith IV
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    Apr 02, 2019

    Hey wroot - we take time management very seriously and continually refine and improve our calendaring experience in Outlook mobile, enabling a number of scenarios that are not available in EAS clients (e.g., shared/delegate calendar access). For your one specific ask, we recently added support for weekly (in landscape) and monthly calendar views.

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    wroot
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    Apr 02, 2019

    This reminded me how on my previous job one of the execs tried Outlook and then demanded to bring back default Samsung email app because Outlook's calendar is crap :) Yeah, it does look inferior to other calendar apps. You can't have a normal work week view. People still work in weeks, you know. Security and standardizing is good, but MS needs to flesh out Outlook a lot to make it a proper replacement.