Activesync meets your file server

Received notification today for the next Adelaide Windows User Group and was intrigued by the topic, Work Folders in Windows 2012 R2.

The link included in the meeting notice was a Technet article and it seems to be a very useful feature.

It sounds like the Microsoft ActiveSync for Exchange Team had a beer with the File Services team and basically come up with a feature that is like an ActiveSync like connection to a file server.

It can enforce encryption and lock screen passwords on supported devices.

I am looking forward to the meeting and finding out more about the feature as I can some valuable se for this in the context of BYOD (Bring your Own Device) and also non domain devices like IOS (so hoping for an IOS App is available!)