Category Archives: Android

/CertSrv vs Mobile Devices

January 31st, 2012 | Posted in Android, Device Management, How-to's, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone

I mentioned in my last blog about Android Ice Cream Sandwich that it is now possible, (actually from Android 3.x Honeycomb), to enroll certificates directly from the /CertSrv web site onto your mobile device. (If you’re running a Microsoft CA of course.)

This is all nice and dandy, but it’s not like Android devices are the only devices you’re likely to be supporting. With the tablet varieties the split is something like 90/10 iPad vs “the rest”. However if you ever tried loading up /CertSrv on your iOS device or your Windows Phone you’ll have noticed that it’s not working.

I find this slightly annoying, and decided to look into this further. Those pesky ActiveX controls can’t be the only reason right? :)

There’s two things to sort out here really; is it anything with the web pages themselves and the server, or something on the browser side. Turns out there’s a bit of both involved actually.
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I go through how it works and how it doesn’t work – and some of the why’s.

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Client Certificates in Android Ice Cream Sandwich

December 31st, 2011 | Posted in Android, Device Management

I touched upon the release of Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, back in October:
http://mobilitydojo.net/2011/10/19/ice-cream-sandwiches-for-the-kids/

That was based upon the official docs and emulator, but about a week ago I finally got an actual device in my hands in the form of the Galaxy Nexus, and I find it a lot easier to test on real hardware so I thought I’d revisit the OS to test out some client certificate related features. (The eye candy factor is greatly improved, but it’s not like you can’t find tests of that all over the web.)

I said that certificate support was improved – for instance the support of client certificates with the Google-supplied Exchange ActiveSync client. This implied there might have been some improvements for the browser as well, and the short answer would be yes

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Ice Cream Sandwiches For The Kids!

October 19th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Device Management, Exchange

I was thinking about a pun about it being for grown-ups, but that might have been interpreted as me saying Android is all grown up. And I haven’t decided on that yet

After a slight delay Android version 4.0, code name Ice Cream Sandwich has now been launched. This is the next major iteration of the operating system, and this time it should work both on tablets and regular phone form factors. As the number indicates it is not a mix of the 2.x and 3.x branch, but the next branch. All APIs and features from 3.x is included in 4.0.

The main focus of the release is on user interface improvements, as well as general updates of the apps and polishing the OS further. You can find screenshots all over the Internet of course of this.

As usual I don’t care about these things. Well, of course, as a user of devices I care about the interface, but this blog does not concern itself with such matters. A perhaps important feature for people reading this blog is that since Honeycomb features are supported this means that you now get full device encryption on the phone devices and just not the tablets.
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A couple of paragraphs of what I have found so far.

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