Category Archives: Device Management

iOS 5 – Anything In It For The Enterprise? (Part 2)

July 7th, 2011 | Posted in Device Management, iPhone

My usual presentation style is that I find something I believe is of interest to the MDM/Enterprise crowd, then I test it & verify it working, and present it to you either as a textual description, some screenshots or both. Today, it’s not so much tried and tested – actually you could say I’m moving into the speculation department.

I just upgraded my iPad to iOS 5 Beta 1 and gave a small rant about it:
http://mobilitydojo.net/2011/06/07/ios-5-anything-in-it-for-the-enterprise/

Since then I’ve upgraded to Beta 2, and I’ve looked through the menus of the device for relevant stuff. Now, Apple are a funny bunch of course, on their developer site they have a section for the pre-release stuff and some documentation. But the docs are mainly on new APIs and major changes. “Small” things like MDM and policies aren’t documented yet (only for iOS 4). So, I thought that, hey let’s just try to build some new .mobileconfig files and have a guess at what the settings should be. Turns out it’s not that easy…
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Taking a crack at guessing what will come in iOS 5.

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Enterprise Android Here We Come

July 5th, 2011 | Posted in Android, Device Management, Exchange

Oh, yeah! Ok, not universally, but hear me out here

I have in my hands a spanking new device running Android 3.1, and following up on my previous testing on the Android emulator I had to just run a few of the tests on actual hardware.
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http://mobilitydojo.net/2011/02/24/android-3-0-honeycomb-finalized/

I think I have mentioned that encryption was present in the UI in the emulator, but not possible to test. So with actual hardware I can actually test this. Yes, it is present. Yes, it seems to be a Google-supplied feature since it works the same way on two different tablets I’ve tested.
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it rarely comes out of the box with a charge that high. (I quit charging mobile devices before using them years ago.)

Over to the more interesting part; there’s good news, and/or bad news (depending on where you stand). Once again referring to my own previous ramblings:
http://mobilitydojo.net/2011/04/15/android-with-proper-exchange-activesync-could-it-be/

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A Beta Taste of Mango

June 30th, 2011 | Posted in Device Management, Exchange, Updates, Windows Phone

The next release of Windows Phone 7, at the moment versioned as 7.1 and going by the code name Mango, has been hyped up for the past couple of weeks and it was also put into the hands of techno journalists last week who took the upgrade for a spin and in general gave it a thumbs up.

The RTM release hasn’t gotten a set date yet, but late Q3 probably isn’t entirely unlikely. The problem for the not-so-average user is of course that a lot of people want to test it before their users/customers are able to do an update. Last year the only way to do this was to join the slightly exclusive club of people who received a device directly from Microsoft. And it wasn’t really that easy to sign up for it – an amount of luck had to be involved.

Rumors surfaced that developers might get a preview this time, but the details were sketchy. (Let’s be honest – the emulator isn’t thrilling even though it works for most development purposes.) But last night I received an email with an invitation to join the Windows Phone Beta Program on Microsoft Connect and an indication that I’d be able to test Beta 2 on my personal phone.

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