The Mobile Device Manager Support Team Blog

News and support on System Center Mobile Device Manager.

Microsoft Enterprise Product Roadmap Webcast

Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/19/2012

As many of you probably already know, for a long time the Script Repository (a special-purpose...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/18/2011

System Center Unlimited - All your favorite System Center posts, together in one central place

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/12/2011

Meet a couple of our System Center engineers

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/11/2011

The System Center Blog Aggregator app is now available on Android

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/10/2011

Quick Fix: You are unable to install the System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Admin Tools if Windows Powershell was upgraded

Attempting to install the System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) Administrator Console or...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/15/2011

FYI: Integration of TechNet Blog User Account with TechNet Forums Profile

For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/26/2011

New solution: System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 device certificate renewal request fails after 12 months

After being enrolled for a year, a System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) managed device may...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/12/2010

New KB: A manually requested System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 GCM certificate cannot be saved to the computer store

In some situations, an administrator of System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) must...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/06/2010

Need personalized help implementing a Microsoft product or solution? Our new ProAdvisory service may be for you

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to Mobile Device Manager but I wanted to let you know of a...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/01/2010

New KB Solution: A manually requested System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 GCM certificate cannot be saved to the computer store

Just a quick heads up on a new Knowledge Base article we just published.  This one describes an...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 06/08/2010

The Microsoft TechNet Wiki has launched

I know I've mentioned this here before but in case you haven't seen the TechNet Wiki or had a chance...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/15/2010

Welcome to the TechNet Wiki Beta!

What began a few years ago as an idea is now in front of you. Through the grassroots efforts and...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/08/2010

A quick note on the SCMDM administrative template

The System Center Mobile Device Manager administrative template adds Windows Mobile Settings that...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/03/2010

Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 ends on July 13, 2010

I know this isn't necessarily Mobile Device Manager specific but I figured that some of you may...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/21/2010

A hotfix rollup package is available for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008

Last week we released a new hotfix rollup package for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 as...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/19/2010

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP) Now Available!

I know this isn’t Mobile Device Manager specific but I thought it was something you’d appreciate...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/10/2009

Automatic FixIt: You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version

I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered.  Now if you ever run into...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/05/2009

Software Distribution 8041 warning

Here’s a problem which we’ve seen a couple of times which can be caused by bad packages in software...

Author: Rob Davies Date: 11/02/2009

The System Center Online Desktop Manager beta is coming soon

You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/14/2009

Information on using Mobile Device Manager in a locked down environment

The System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) includes three...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/08/2009

New MDM KB article: Code Word policy for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied when disabled

Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/24/2009

New MDM KB article: Code Word Frequency policy for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied when disabled

Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/17/2009

Group Policy setting “Code Word” for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied to Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices when the policy is Disabled

When you disable the Group Policy setting Code Word by using Microsoft System Center Mobile Device...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/13/2009

The Group Policy setting “Code word frequency” for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied to Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices when the policy is “Disabled”

When you disable the Group Policy setting Code word frequency by using Microsoft System Center...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/12/2009

Jumping on the Facebook bandwagon

I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/13/2009

SCMDM roadmap

We’ve recently been asked a few questions about the SCMDM roadmap and future versions. Here’s a...

Author: Rob Davies Date: 06/25/2009

SCMDM SP1 Support for Virtualization

As you may know, with the Service Pack 1 release of SCMDM we introduced support for virtualization...

Author: Rob Davies Date: 05/28/2009

Here’s an interesting issue that a one of our top Support Escalation engineers by the name of James...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/21/2009

System Center Mobile Device Manager support for Windows Server 2008 Certificate Authority

We are happy to announce that we now support System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 with a...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/18/2009

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Mobile Device Manager 2008 is easier (and cheaper) than you think

Here’s another webcast on System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 in case you haven’t already seen...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 05/05/2009

Webcast: Windows Mobile 6.1 and Mobile Device Manager 2008: The Gateway to Your Corporate Network

We have a fairly new System Center Mobile Device Manager webcast available in case you haven’t...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/28/2009

So how many blogs does Microsoft have?

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/22/2009

Two new Mobile Device Manager 2008 Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 03/21/2009

Sorry for the lag in getting these posted but I’ve been out of the office for a while and then had a...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/30/2009

Solution: The Group Policy setting “Block unsigned theme installation” for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied to Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices

Just a quick FYI on an issue we came across recently.  This should be a Knowledge Base article...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/11/2009

Syncing your mobile device with Exchange may fail with an error code of 0x85020013

Here's an issue I saw the other day that I thought I'd share with all of you.  I'm not sure how...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/18/2009

TechNet Virtual Lab: Using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Features

Are you new to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 or just wanting to learn more?  If so...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/09/2009

Online Event: Microsoft Secure Remote Access Solutions

We have a cool webcast coming up next Tuesday, February 10th, concerning secure remote access...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009

Microsoft Management Summit 2009

I know many of you will probably be heading to Las Vegas for MMS 2009 and if so we have all the...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/29/2009

Collecting large amount of device inventory information during OMA session causes MDM server to timeout

Here's an issue we run into every now and then so I thought it might be worth a mention here. ...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/08/2009

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

I was actually looking for something else when I came across this MP for Mobile Device Manager 2008...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/07/2009

New Knowledge Base articles for 12-14 through 12-20

For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had three new System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 KB...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/06/2009

SCMDM: Enrollment fails with "Unknown error in Enrollment service: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null"

Here's another MDM enrollment failure issue we ran across recently that's caused by the CA not being...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/05/2009

Where did all the posts go?

Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008

SCMDM: Mobile Device Manager setup error: "Failed to determine status of MDM databases on SQL instance"

Here's one more MDM Service Pack 1 issue for you, this one involving a setup error you might run...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008

SCMDM: Enrollment fails if a port other than 443 is used for the Enrollment Service

Here's another SP1 issue that we came across.  If your server and client logs indicate that...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/17/2008

SCMDM: Set-EnrollmentPermissions returns "Error encountered when delegating container..."

Here's another MDM SP1 issue for you. This one involves the Set-EnrollmentPermissions command and an...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/16/2008

SCMDM: Enrolling a device generates "Unable to enroll this device in the company domain" error

Here's a heads up on an error you might run into when enrolling devices.  This one comes from...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/11/2008

The same software package may be installed every time a device connects to a System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 server

Here's an interesting MDM issue I ran across the other day.  If you're seeing the same package...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/10/2008

SCMDM: The management console is no longer available after installing the MDM Reporting Services v1.1 reporting snap-in

Here's kind of a wacky issue we've seen a couple times so I thought I'd give you a heads up just in...

Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/09/2008

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