It took a bit of time to find MDM resources online. Here’s what I used the most:
Websites, Blogs & Forums
- Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager TechCenter – launch page for all Microsoft MDM resources
- Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager Forum – best place for community help
- The System Center Mobile Device Manager Team Blog
- SCMDM Topics at MobilityDojo.net – excellent how-to articles and the author is a top contributor to the MDM Forum linked above
- MDM Product Documentation – lots of content not in the download versions! There’s a good chance you’ll spend a lot of time in the troubleshooting section especially.
Prerequisites & Tools
As I worked through the documentation and virtual implementation (using Hyper-V of course) I started compiling an ISO containing all of the install files, tools, and prerequisites. Here’s pretty much everything that I ended up collecting. You’ll probably need most of them so you might as well download them ahead of time!
- Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator Images
- System Center Mobile Device Manager Resource Kit Tools
- System Center Mobile Device Manager Product Documentation
- ActiveSync 4.5
- Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows Vista: 32-bit, 64-bit (can be installed on Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 RC to get ActiveSync-like capabilities)
- Group Policy Management Console with Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer
- MMC 3.0: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
- PowerShell 1.0
- Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1
- Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1: x86, x64
- Windows Mobile Network Analyzer PowerToy
Non-Microsoft Tools
- Hosts File Editor for Windows Mobile
- vxUtil Network Utilities for Windows Mobile (ping, tracert, DNS lookup, etc)
- CeRegEditor – Windows Mobile registry editor
- Wireshark – nice free network protocol analyzer (for when you really need to know if the device is talking to the gateway, etc)
