Enforcing device settings for mobile devices

At a device, a method for updating device configuration settings to access data maintained at a computer system, the method comprising:

• sending, from the device, a first data request to the computer system, the first data request requesting that the device be permitted to access the data maintained at the computer system, the first data request indicating current device configuration settings of the device;
• receiving at the device a notification indicating that the current device configuration settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to receiving the notification, sending, from the device, a policy request to the computer system, the policy request requesting policy settings that are appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• receiving, at the device, new device configuration settings;
• in response to receiving the device configuration settings, implementing, at the device, the new device configuration settings;
• sending, from the device, a second data request to the computer system;
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• receiving at least a portion of the maintained data.

A system for updating, at a device, device configurations to access data maintained at a computer system, the method comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, the memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
• sending a first data request to the computer system, the first data request requesting access the data maintained at the computer system, the first data request indicating a current device configuration;
• receiving a notification indicating that the current device configuration is not appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to receiving the notification, sending a policy request to the computer system, the policy request requesting policy settings that are appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• receiving device configuration settings, the device configuration settings representing a new device configuration that is appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to receiving the device configuration settings, implementing the new device configuration that is appropriated for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to implementing the new device configuration, sending a second data request to the computer system;
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• in response to sending the second data request, accessing the data maintained at the computer system.

A computer storage medium encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method for updating device configurations to access data maintained at a computer system, the method comprising:

• sending, from the mobile device, a first sync request to the computer system, the first sync request requesting that the mobile device be permitted to access the data maintained at the computer system in order to sync data between the mobile device and the computer system, the sync request indicating a current mobile device configuration of the mobile device and including a configuration version corresponding to the current mobile device configuration, the data maintained by the computer system comprising electronic mail data;
• receiving at the mobile device a notification indicating that the current mobile device configuration is not appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to receiving the notification, sending, from the mobile device, a policy request to the computer system, the policy request requesting policy settings that are appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• receiving, at the mobile device, device configuration settings, the device configuration settings representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to receiving the device configuration settings, implementing, at the mobile device, the new mobile device configuration that is appropriated for accessing the maintained data;
• in response to implementing the new mobile device configuration, sending, from the mobile device, a second sync request to the computer system;
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• in response to sending the second sync request, accessing the data maintained at the computer system.