Category Archives: Utilities

Enrolling Personal Certificates with SCMDM

User certificates has been sort of an illusion when it comes to Windows Mobile. It’s been around for a while, but there’s been a few obstacles implementing this. Granted it’s part due to the fact that not everyone’s comfortable setting up a CA, and possibly not require one either. The general understanding of how Windows Mobile works. (Maybe there is a PKI guru in the company, but he doesn’t know what provisioning xml means, and the Windows Mobile guru doesn’t know how the CA works, and you’ve got things going.) Maybe I’m painting a dark picture, but I’m just saying it’s a possible obstacle. And there are of course many companies who are using certificates with success too for that matter.

Taking a closer look at your options to enrolling certificates in an easy way.

Setting Email Signatures From Your MDM Platform

Have you noticed that most newer devices come preconfigured with something like “Sent from my Windows Mobile device” as the tag-line on emails? Have you been annoyed by this? Or worse – have you received emails from other people who have found out how to change this, and configure it to be something catchy/annoying?

Here’s a utility that enables you to configure this signature from your MDM platform.

SCMDM 2008 – Web Services – MobileDeviceManagerAdmin

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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