IPhones cause windows accounts to lock out due to activesync

We have 200+ iPhones in our environment, all of which are causing their respected user accounts to lock out after the users change their password.  It appears that they unlike their Android counterparts are not syncing their password through ActiveSync like they should.  Bug exists from iOS 6

Sorry. You're just plain wrong. Where, exactly, do you think the phone is supposed to get the new password from? AD? Sorry. That's not going to happen. It would be a huge security problem if password changes were automatically pushed out to every connected device. What would you do if an account was compromised? Changing the password would no longer fix the problem.
I AM an Exchange admin.
This is a user education problem, plain and simple.

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