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Disable Exchange ActiveSync for a User

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

You can disable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for a user. By default, in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, users are enabled for Exchange ActiveSync.

Looking for other management tasks related to Exchange ActiveSync? Check out Managing Exchange ActiveSync Users.

Prerequisites

Exchange ActiveSync has been enabled on the Exchange 2010 server that has the Client Access server role installed.

Note

By default, Exchange ActiveSync is enabled on a Client Access server.

Use the EMC to disable Exchange ActiveSync for a user

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Exchange ActiveSync user settings" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Recipient Configuration > Mailbox.
  2. Select Properties from the action pane, or right-click the user's mailbox and then click Properties.
  3. Click the Mailbox Features tab.
  4. Select Exchange ActiveSync, and then click Disable.
  5. Click OK.

Use the Shell to disable Exchange ActiveSync for a user

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Exchange ActiveSync user settings" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.

This example disables Exchange ActiveSync for a user.

Set-CASMailbox -Identity<SMTP Address of user> -ActiveSyncEnabled $false

For more information about syntax and parameters, see Set-CASMailbox.