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  • 1.  Attaching pictures unavailable in Native email

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri March 25, 2022 10:42 AM
    • We have a customer with a large number of iOS devices enrolled as local users. 
    • Cloud Extender is not deployed. 
    • The devices are not in the customer's Apple Business Manager.  
    • We have created ActiveSync configuration in the applicable policy. Mail, calendar, contacts, reminders are all enabled. They are Office 365 Exchange

     

    During the initial enrollment process for devices already in the field, we remove the Exchange account.  During the Enrollment process they are prompted to provide their email password and to verify as MFA is in place.  Once the enrollment is completed and the Exchange account is properly configured, verified and authenticated, the issue that arises is the inability to email pictures from the native email client.  They were able to do this prior to the enrollment and removal of the Exchange account.

     

    Under these parameters, this does not seem to be the expected behavior.  Please advise if there are specific settings in the policy I am missing or if this is the result of something else, like an Exchange setting. 

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Mitch Lauer

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  • 2.  RE: Attaching pictures unavailable in Native email

    Posted Mon March 28, 2022 08:57 AM
    Mitch, we have Prevent Third Party Apps from Sending Mail under the ActiveSync enabled. This stops the iPhone native Mail application from sending photos from the Photos application. However, in the Mail message, if you long-press to get the menu, you can attach an image into the message directly.

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    Alex Bulmash
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  • 3.  RE: Attaching pictures unavailable in Native email

    IBM Champion
    Posted Mon March 28, 2022 09:09 AM

    Great info!   I can't believe I looked at that policy 20 times and missed that setting!    Thanks.

     

    Thanks!

    Mitch

     






  • 4.  RE: Attaching pictures unavailable in Native email

    Posted Mon March 28, 2022 09:14 AM
    Hi Mitch
    Just to clarify - not 100% clear - you want to be able to add images as attachments in emails, not block them, correct? 
    I've had a look at policy settings and not seen anything in Normal or Supervised mode apart from the setting that Mr. Bulmash has mentioned above. 
    The only other thing I can think of is whether the app that's being used to attach images is blocklisted in the App Compliance part of the policy. 
    Regarding Exchange this might be a global setting but it will depend on the version of Exchange so you might want to check Microsoft documentation for this. 
    Best

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    Eamonn O'Mahony
    Technical Client Success Manager
    IBM Security
    Dublin, Ireland
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  • 5.  RE: Attaching pictures unavailable in Native email

    Posted Mon March 28, 2022 09:18 AM
    Hi,

    Are the users able to send a picture when composing a new email, i.e. from the mail client and add it as an attachment? Usually, if that works, but if you're not able to go to the picture and send it from there via email, then you want to uncheck the option "Prevent Third Party Apps from Sending Mail" in the ActiveSync settings in the policy.
    I hope this helps!


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    Zoya Aleksova
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