Use standards-based services for Apple devices

Apple devices can integrate with most standards-based environments, given their support for the IMAP mail protocol, LDAP directory services, CalDAV calendaring, and CardDAV contacts protocols. If your network environment is configured to require user authentication and SSL, your Apple devices support X.509 root certificates that are issued by the major certificate authorities.

In a typical deployment, Apple devices establish direct access to IMAP and SMTP mail servers to do the following:

Send and receive mail wirelessly (for Mac computers, wirelessly or using Ethernet)
Set VIP status in message threads
Wirelessly update notes with IMAP-based servers

Apple devices can connect to your organization’s LDAPv3 corporate directories, giving users access to corporate contacts in the Contacts, Calendar, and Mail apps. CardDAV support lets your users maintain a set of contacts synced with your CardDAV server using the vCard format. CalDAV synchronization lets users do the following:

Create and accept calendar invitations
View an invitee’s calendar free/busy information
Create private calendar events
Configure custom repeating events
In Calendar, view the week numbers (which week out of 52 weeks in a year)
Receive calendar updates
Update tasks with the Reminders app

All network services and servers can be within a DMZ subnetwork, behind a corporate firewall, or both.

Internationalized Domain Names support

Safari supports the latest ICANN-approved Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). IDNs are domain names that contain at least one label in a language-specific script or alphabet—for example, Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, and Hebrew, or the Latin alphabet-based characters that have been extended by the use of diacritics or ligatures, such as in the French and German alphabets.

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Use standards-based services for Apple devices

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