Category Archives: Updates

EAS MD – Spring 2012 Updates

April 23rd, 2012 | Posted in ActiveSync, Exchange, Updates, Utilities

Short description of, and a few screenshots, of the latest updates to the EAS MD utilities.
Now with support for WBXML output in both versions, and WBXML encoding and decoding in the desktop client.

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System Center Configuration Manager 2012–Release Candidate Comes Along

November 9th, 2011 | Posted in Device Management, SCMDM, Updates

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.

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EAS MD – Looking to The Clouds

October 12th, 2011 | Posted in ActiveSync, Exchange, Updates, Utilities

I’ve grown quite fond of my EAS MD utility, and it’s also been great fun sharing the code powering it for the past weeks/months. When I originally started out coding it I was fueled by what I felt were shortcomings in the official diagnostic utility provided by Microsoft; http://testexchangeconnectivity.com. It only supported Exchange 2003 protocol level, had no means of dealing with security policies, and in general didn’t provide a whole lot of options. It worked OK, but not for the scenarios I wanted to test.

When you’re a programmer at heart this means there might come a moment when you get a feeling of “why not build what I want myself instead of accepting the tools available as is”. Not to mention that other people aren’t going to accept your “whining” either and will eventually challenge you to do better. (I wasn’t pressured by anyone else than myself when it came to this issue though.)

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Today I have come full circle, returning to where we started, and present a web version of EAS MD to you :)

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