It is possible to turn off this feature in the activesync policy on the phone itself, but can this be disabled at a policy level so that any Windows Mobile 6.5 devices cannot sync text messages to the Exchange server or send text messages from Outlook 2010? We have removed the text message feature from OWA using the set-owavirtualdirectory command, but cannot see a way of removing this feature completely from activesync. Is this not possible for Windows Mobile devices synching with Outlook 2010?

Hi James. Setting that setting will disable the text message function from the device which is not what we are after. People still need to be able to send text messages from their phones, but the part that pulls texts from phones into inboxes and allows people to send text messages from within Outlook itself needs to be disabled. Any ideas?

Does anyone else have any ideas about this one?

Same issue here, anyone know how to turn off just the SMS sync feature from activesync? We don't even want the option to come up on the phone during activesync config.

Hey everyone, I had the same issue. I figured it out. Go in your mobile phone's exchange server settings and disable the "sms sync" feature. That worked for my Android. Gus

Microsoft needs to come up with a solution to do it at the Exch Server level! I manage 350 users and about 300 cell phones of all forms and sorts, and we are a 2-man IT shop and not very sophisticated users. This has created a lot of headache for us, the users, and the company! Should I have known about the potential disaster that it creates, in terms of my Exch Server getting an increased load of over 3000 SMS a day, the liability of confidentiality infringement, ....., I would have included that in my instructions posted on our Intranet!

Just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and synced to my work outlook (but is a personal phone), now I'm receiving all of my text messages on my work email. I have, as Gus suggested, gone to my phones exchange server settings, but there is no option on this phone to disable the 'sms sync'. Any ideas on how I can disable this without this setting?!

trogolodyte, I have the galaxy s2 with sprint network. I just turned my off. I clicked on exchange active sync account\clicked on the icon in the bottom left\clicked on more\clicked on account settings\scrolled down to the bottom there u should see synch sms sync, task etc....btw u are using active sync not pop or imap correct? how is that s3? I like my s2

Finally! A way to fix this problem! Thanks for taking the time to post.

thanks, please remember to mark me as the answer you are looking for. and remember to "pay it forward" which means help out others, if u can. :-) did u see that move pay it forward great movie, its all about passing on a good dead

Neil, I have an S3 and I can't seem to turn off receiving all those text message in my exchange server. It's driving me nutts.... Can't find anything in settings I can use to turn this feature off. Can you help? Thanks!

keep in mind the settings are on the phone, not the server or the client. I'm not sure if the galaxy s3 email app is the same as the s2 but if so follow these steps. also the s2 has 4 icons on the bottom of the phone that is part of the phone the s3 does not. try pressing to the left of that button in the middle of the s3 and see what you get, I just watched a video on it and it lights up on either side of the middle button. on the s2 the icon on the far left I'll call it the details icon, thats the one you want when getting more details about the email account on the phone. I clicked on the account\more\accounting settings\scrolled down to the bottom there u should see synch sms sync, task etc. uncheck it. hope this helps remember to pay it forward and mark me as the answer if that is the case :-) how is that s3? I like my s2

Finally work this out. From the home screen click Settings > Accounts and Sync > Microsoft Exchange > settings > select your work email > scroll down the bottom and deselect Sync SMS. Hope you find this helpful

lol turnova, thats what I said to do in my post before yours too funny :-)