Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines.  This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications...

As many of you probably already know, for a long time the Script Repository (a special-purpose gallery) has been an engine of great content and community engagement on TechNet.  Well starting last week it was upgraded significantly and launched as...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were recently profiled on Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support (CSS) People First blog.  There’s a chance that you might have talked with one of these...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

Attempting to install the System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) Administrator Console or the Software Distribution console on a server or workstation fails with the following error: Setup detected a missing prerequisite. Windows PowerShell...

For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January 27 th 1:00 pm (PST) regarding user accounts and profiles. Please click here to read about this change. If you have questions please leave a comment on the...

After being enrolled for a year, a System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) managed device may fail to renew its client certificate.  As a result it will fail to connect to the SCMDM VPN successfully. Additionally, the issuing Certificate Authority...

In some situations, an administrator of System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) must manually request a Gateway Configuration Management (GCM) certificate from the Certificate Authority's (CA) web enrollment page.  If the server hosting...

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to Mobile Device Manager but I wanted to let you know of a new support offering that we're rolling out. I am sure many of you have contacted Microsoft for support in the past and are aware of our various support...

Just a quick heads up on a new Knowledge Base article we just published.  This one describes an issue where in some situations an administrator of System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) must manually request a Gateway Configuration Management...

I know I've mentioned this here before but in case you haven't seen the TechNet Wiki or had a chance to play with it, let me tell you, you should definitely check this out.  So what makes the TechNet Wiki so different?  Well for starters it...

What began a few years ago as an idea is now in front of you. Through the grassroots efforts and work of many, the TechNet Wiki has landed and the way we view content will never be the same. It is an experiment designed to increase the breadth, depth...

The System Center Mobile Device Manager administrative template adds Windows Mobile Settings that can be applied to Windows Mobile Devices. Although the Group Policy Object Editor does show the other Windows GPO options, these are not applicable to the...

I know this isn't necessarily Mobile Device Manager specific but I figured that some of you may still have some old Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2 systems running out there and would appreciate the heads up.  As the title says, Windows XP SP2, Windows...

Last week we released a new hotfix rollup package for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 as Knowledge Base article 976623. This article describes the Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 issues that are fixed in this System Center...

I know this isn’t Mobile Device Manager specific but I thought it was something you’d appreciate hearing about nonetheless.   The Solution Accelerator team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning...

I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered.  Now if you ever run into the symptoms below the chances are good we can automatically fix it with just a few clicks of the mouse: The Symptoms: When you use the fully qualified...

Here’s a problem which we’ve seen a couple of times which can be caused by bad packages in software distribution. This problem can arise when Software Distribution is being used, and you notice that devices don’t seem to be getting packages, nor getting...

You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out yourself.  The System Center Online Desktop Manager beta is coming soon: The System Center Online team has been working hard in preparation for its next beta release...

The System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) includes three templates that you can apply to MDM servers to help enhance security by disabling functionality that is not required for the servers. The SCW is an attack...

Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 last week.  I mentioned this issue here last week but we now have an official KB documenting it as well: KB974680 - The Group Policy setting "Code...

Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 last week.  I mentioned this issue here last week but we now have an official KB documenting it as well: KB974606 - The Group Policy setting "Code...

When you disable the Group Policy setting Code Word by using Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 Group Policy management functionality, some Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices may continue to use the previously set code word. This...

When you disable the Group Policy setting Code word frequency by using Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manger (MDM) 2008 Group Policy management functionality, some Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices may continue to ask the user to enter a code word...