Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone 7 being remote wiped from BPOS / Exchange

[gravchenatavche]

are you aware that your password can be figured out in no time? Just thought i could warn you. :)

[sjrmay]

@gravchenatavche Yeah I changed it after I did the video, before I published it :)

[jr32mn5]

Was very surprised to hear you say that one must manually remove the phone entry from Outlook Web Access or else it will be continually wiped. Do you consider that a bug?

[sjrmay]

@jr32mn5 No, no that's by design.

Imagine if you no longer have the device, i.e. if it's really lost and you never get it back. In this case you'd never know that the device had been turned on and you'd never be able to know that it had been wiped. So you want the wipe request to be pervasive to prevent it the email account ever being compromised from that device.

If you do get the device back you'll need to remove it from the list so that you can successfully set it back up