Monthly Archives: December 2008

SCMDM – Multiple Instance Deployment – Part 1

December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Device Management, How-to's, SCMDM

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM 2008) has recently seen the release of Service Pack 1, so I felt it was time for another multi-post series on how to perform an installation of this little MDM product from Redmond.

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One of the new features in System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 is the ability to deploy multiple SCMDM instances in a single forest. Although my lab was working nicely with just one SCMDM deployment it was a feature I couldn’t resist testing, and documenting :)

Another new feature of SP1 is support for Windows Server 2008 Domain Functional Level, and Certificate Authority running on Windows Server 2008. I had to include this in my new lab as well.

So before installing SCMDM I have setup a new forest with a root domain, and two sub-domains. I installed this using three Virtual Machines all running Windows Server 2008 SP2 (Beta) Enterprise Edition.
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Geek Gift – Mobility Style

December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Off-Topic

Now I’m not a big fan of Christmas. Well, sure, I get time off work, get to eat good food, etc. But a lot of it is more of a kid’s thing in my opinion. That does not mean that I’m off the hook when it comes around to gifts however. I had the opportunity [...]

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SCMDM 2008 – Web Services – MobileDeviceManagerAdmin

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Coding, SCMDM, Utilities

This article is a walkthrough of the MobileDeviceManagerAdmin web service in SCMDM. It follows two previous articles on web services in SCMDM. Code samples on how to programmatically interact with the web service are included, as well as showing how you can use the web service through your browser. You learn how to perform remote wipes of devices from your own program – just imagine the fun :)

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