iPhone OS 4.0: Enterprise Features

I'd like to see something that will make configuration rollout a lot easier. By now every iPhone over here has to be configured manually with the iPhone Configuration Utility. I'd rather like to deploy a basic configuration (via 3G) so that users only have to specifiy a username and password to connect to our company's Exchange

Does anybody know whether S/MIME email encryption will finally be supported?

Not stupid, it's one of those features that should have been there in 1.0. I work on political campaigns. I had to stop using my signature because I was afraid I'd accidentily use my work signature when sending political emails (a big no no). Rather than risk it - since I can't set a separate signature for my political email address - I stopped using signatures altogether.

Weird, I've been using the SSL VPN from Cisco since my Gen 1 iPhone. Everything works fine except things like Java apps for Remote Desktop, etc. But all the web stuff has always worked fine. I assume these SSL VPN apps will add those rich features, or maybe its just a load of crap.

What about the shitty encrypted backups? That's one reason my company won't adopt it.

Wireless app deployment isn't interesting unless Apple's really going to open up the ability for distribute private applications (developed in house and by third parties) to the devices within an enterprise.

It should be a virtual no-brainer on the order of how development certs are handled; if I as an admin say "let this app be installed and run" it should be capable of doing so, whether that app is approved by Apple, or even adheres to Apple's guidelines.

And, as others have said... full fledged Exchange support.

What I'd like to see are more details on this stuff and for large companies a point of contact at Apple for technical details. Does the company have to register support incidents to get questions answered?

In view of the latest SDK 4.0 agreement, you forgot to mention that which ever company signs up to use iphone as a mobile development platform will also commit to build applications using Objective C. This is not only a serious threat to innovation, it comes with some serious issues for corporations: how do you maintain this new island of technology? What will be Apple's next steps to lock down the platform even further ?
If I was a corporation today, I would rather take the Android bandwagon which happens to be a much better long term investment.

Keep on the good job Apple, you always sucked with corporations and this is not about to change.

I would just be happy is the viral nature of Exchange were limited to when I had to actually read messages from my Exchange server and not everytime I used my device. What this leads to are people choosing weak passwords and jailbreaking their phones just so they could get away from the idiocy of a complete device lock. If someone has my device in their possession, the Exchange lock is not going to prevent them from getting to the data on the device - AT ALL!

Please please please make it so anything in a calendar appointment is clickable. I hate not being able to click a phone number or address in the "location" field.

Wonder if this means that iPhones/iPads will be able to log into my school's Juniper (SSL) VPN...