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iOS Native VS Outlook
- Hi Daniel Schmidt,
You can't implement app protection policies on the native IoS app. Good articles to read are:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-protection-policy
https://www.systemcenterdudes.com/intune-ios-mail-outlook-app/
It is also more difficult in terms of support, as you are using a non-microsoft app for mail.
By using native mail app and not using app protection policies, users can download the organisations mail and data out of the native app onto the device and then potentially upload it to third party apps, possibly to competitors.
https://practical365.com/clients/mobile-devices/intune-mam-conditional-access-policies/
In other words, it facilitates data leakage and insider threats.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
You can't implement app protection policies on the native IoS app. Good articles to read are:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-protection-policy
https://www.systemcenterdudes.com/intune-ios-mail-outlook-app/
It is also more difficult in terms of support, as you are using a non-microsoft app for mail.
By using native mail app and not using app protection policies, users can download the organisations mail and data out of the native app onto the device and then potentially upload it to third party apps, possibly to competitors.
https://practical365.com/clients/mobile-devices/intune-mam-conditional-access-policies/
In other words, it facilitates data leakage and insider threats.
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
- Great. Unfortunately, the outlook is draining the battery, which this specific application's consumption is alarming than all others in IoS. Also, the outlook occupied nearly 1.5gB space of my storage. The native application is just 11MB. As I am just a user of mobile phone, what is the advice, experts you are all going to give. Please advise.
Foretec I'd no such experience as described.
Yes, my Outlook for iOS App uses caching (in my case 270MB of the app itself, and 400MB of "documents & data".
What i didn't experience either is the battery drainage you described. In the overall battery summary for 10 days my outlook app is on rank #5 (nearly 2 hours in foreground and 26min in background.)
Can you state this clearer for all the others here? 🙂
Hello ChrisHoardMVP
Thank you for this answer.
Is it a good idea to move from iOS Native Mail to Microsoft Outlook for iOS. I should find a table that compares the 2 products and what's the best for our users.
- Hi Sofianeda1st
I can't find a direct comparison table - but I hope that this article will suffice as to why Outlook for IoS is the best - and recommended by Microsoft for both functionality and security.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/outlook-for-ios-and-android/outlook-for-ios-and-android
You would use the Outlook for IoS app in conjunction with Intune which would manage the app and apply app protection and configuration policies.
Best, ChrisThank you ChrisHoardMVP for the link.
For the moment I'm gonna stay neutral, but I've to make a table to compare these 2 products & to say what's the best for our users (Should the user stay on Mail App iOS or move to Microsoft Outlook and Why?
