Prevent remote wiping by Exchange

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Prevent remote wiping by Exchange

I was asked by my company to monitor my company email from my personal iPhone. After becoming aware of the remote wipe feature on the Exchange server, I informed my company that I was unwilling to continue using my personal phone. I deleted the email account from my phone, but one of the IT people told me that the policy is still resident on my phone and it could still be wiped remotely. Is it possible to sever that connection? Will backing up my phone and then doing a factory reset help? If I restore the backup, am I not restoring the policy too?

Posted on Jun 24, 2015 11:45 AM

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Jun 24, 2015 4:24 PM in response to rmcc55

What did the IT person say when you asked the how to move the profile entirely?

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rmcc55 Author

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Jun 24, 2015 5:07 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

It is a multi-national company and this was just a local IT person, so they are not the expert. Even so, I would not trust that anyone in our IT department is familiar with details of IOS or iPhones.

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KiltedTim

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Jun 30, 2015 5:20 AM in response to rmcc55

If they didn't use an MDM to configure the phone, and all you had done was add the Exchange account in Settings>Mail, Contact, Calendars, then their ability to wipe the phone was taken away when you deleted the account from the phone.

If you download the Microsoft Outlook iOS app, your company can enforce password policies on your phone, however, their ability to wipe data will be limited to data contained within the Outlook app itself. They can not completely wipe the device, only Outlook.

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rmcc55 Author

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Jul 1, 2015 3:35 PM in response to KiltedTim

Thanks. That's what I wanted to know.

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