Remote wipe via Office 365

I found references to this so you are correct. I wasn't aware of this aspect. Sorry.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clien...

However, if you intend on having corporate information on a mobile device, it is the company's right be be able to protect themselves from losing control of that data.

Thank you Brian,

I have looked into the steps on setting this up on my iphone and after "add account" it seems for office 365 you still tap on "exchange" which ultimately brings up this warning...

still not comfortable.

Thank you Brian for taking the time note down your thoughts.

I fully appreciate instances where companies would like to ensure confidential information stays that way, indeed the role I am doing is exactly that.

I have read quite a bit about their ability to remotely wipe a device when using Microsoft Exchange. I am not too savvy on these kind of things and when they now say "there is an option that negates the need to download via exchange and that is to access the account via Office 365 via a browser." I was, and still a little unsure.

My contract states "Candidates may be provided a Corporate email account" to me this does not read "you will be forced to download software that will enable us to remotely wipe your device"The fact that the company are not willing to supply a mobile and that I have successfully carried out this temporary role for 10 weeks using my hotmail account.

Forgive me Brian, but in Lehman's terms could you clarify if an email account via office 365 would subject me to this vulnerability and would it require me to download or purchase Office 365? 

Best

If your employer is using Microsoft 365 for Business, then you will have an address with their domain hosted on the Microsoft 365 servers and you can access it with a web browser. Your employer being able to wipe your PC is not related to Exchange.

Outlook.com (where your hotmail.com address is hosted) is not a business-class mail service. Moreover, since it is not under your company's control, it may be a violation of business regulations for them to send company information to a mail service they cannot back up or manage. The same could be said of you using a personally-owned computer for business purposes. I know where I used to work, those who wanted to use their own PCs for business had to agree to allow the company to install a program on the computer that would permit remote management by the company IT.