We’re fond of dabbling with Microsoft products at this site, and System Center is no exception (without Virtual Machine Manager my lab would have been less manageable). I’ve done a lot of articles on System Center Mobile Device Manager, and have also taken quick looks at the successor; System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and the Beta releases:
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 Available
SCCM v.Next hits Beta 1

It only seemed natural to at least do an install of the Release Candidate of said product. Now, I have no doubt I can manage my desktop systems and servers with Configuration Manager, but the mobility features…so far they haven’t been causing manic episodes. I have tried to look through the console to see what is available now, assuming that the RC should be pretty much feature complete.
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This time around we get support for more devices, but perhaps not the way we would have wanted to. Read on to see what I mean.

Now I feel that product name really rolls off the tongue… Back in the old days when I started this site the product I started to cover quite extensively was System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. It was supposed to be the Mobile Device Management offering by Microsoft, and it had some nice features at [...]