Block E-Mail Attachments on Mobile Devices

Ever curious about blocking users attachments from their mails? In their handheld devices? Run the following command to check if the policy is set or not as a default option for all mail boxes under Exchange Server.

Get-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy

And since the default is set to TRUE or is turned on, the turn it off by issuing the following command in PowerShell:

[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\scripts>
Set-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy -Identity Default -AttachmentsEnabled:$False

This command will turn off your “AttachmentsEnabled” options to be false or disabled, meaning your handheld devices will no longer download attachments. But do you really want to turn off this option? I mean, intelligent devices are getting more and more RAM attached to it. But it’s an option though.

For more reading:

Set-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123756%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx