I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out here, sharing information and whatnot” and then I thought hey, why not me too.  After all, if there’s another avenue that can be opened up that might...

We’ve recently been asked a few questions about the SCMDM roadmap and future versions. Here’s a quick overview of what is to come. At the recent MMS and Tech Ed US 2009 conferences, the System Center Configuration Manager team revealed some important...

As you may know, with the Service Pack 1 release of SCMDM we introduced support for virtualization of our server roles. This allows you to run the Windows Server 2003 x64 guest OS in a Hyper-V environment. We wanted to clarify that this applies to the...

Here’s an interesting issue that a one of our top Support Escalation engineers by the name of James Geater ran into a while back.  It can be a tricky one to troubleshoot as the cause of the issue isn’t obvious so I thought it would be worth a quick...

We are happy to announce that we now support System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 with a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Certificate Authority.  We’ll be documenting this on TechNet in the near future but we wanted to let you all know...

Here’s another webcast on System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 in case you haven’t already seen it.  This one is about an hour and a half long and discusses how to successfully (and cost effectively!) implement this product in the enterprise...

We have a fairly new System Center Mobile Device Manager webcast available in case you haven’t already seen it. This one is about an hour long and discusses how to configure MDM so that uses can access the corporate network right from their Windows Mobile...

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over the place.  So have you ever wondered how many different blogs Microsoft hosts? Let me tell, you don’t want to know.  Let’s just say it’s thousands...

Sorry for the lag in getting these posted but I’ve been out of the office for a while and then had a project to finish up so I’m just now getting back to my regular day-to-day.  Some of these may be old news by now but I wanted to go back and give...

Just a quick FYI on an issue we came across recently.  This should be a Knowledge Base article soon but I figured I’d post it here first to give all you faithful readers first notice.  If you’re trying to use the Group Policy setting “Block...

Here's an issue I saw the other day that I thought I'd share with all of you.  I'm not sure how common this is but in case you run into this at least now maybe you'll have a place to start.  A special thanks to Shamir Abdul Aziz for documenting...

Are you new to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 or just wanting to learn more?  If so then we have a downloadable virtual lab just for you.  After completing this lab you will be able to understand how to deploy policies and software...

We have a cool webcast coming up next Tuesday, February 10th, concerning secure remote access solutions including MDM as well as ISA and IAG.  This will be a great opportunity to learn more about Microsoft's remote access solutions and MDM in particular...

I know many of you will probably be heading to Las Vegas for MMS 2009 and if so we have all the breakout sessions listed here .  For those of you new to MMS: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) is the premier event of the year for IT Professionals...

Here's an issue we run into every now and then so I thought it might be worth a mention here.  If you're noticing GP and software distribution delivery failures then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: Collecting large amount of device inventory...

I was actually looking for something else when I came across this MP for Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 and thought I'd mention it in case you missed it too.  If you're running OpsMgr and MDM then this is definitely something you'll want...

For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had three new System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 KB articles.  Links and titles are below: ======== KB960829 - Error message when you try to upgrade to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service...

Here's another MDM enrollment failure issue we ran across recently that's caused by the CA not being available when the SCMDM Enrollment Service starts. Fortunately the solution to this one is pretty easy: ======== Issue: Enrollment fails and the...

Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's probably why, although...

Here's one more MDM Service Pack 1 issue for you, this one involving a setup error you might run into when upgrading: ======== Issue: Upgrading to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 fails with the following message: Failed to determine...

Here's another SP1 issue that we came across.  If your server and client logs indicate that Enrollment failed because it could not resolve the Enrollment server URL and you changed the port then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: The server...

Here's another MDM SP1 issue for you. This one involves the Set-EnrollmentPermissions command and an error you can receive if SCMDMEnrollmentServers has full permissions on the specified OU: ======== Issue: When running the Set-EnrollmentPermissions...

Here's a heads up on an error you might run into when enrolling devices.  This one comes from Will Swanda, a Senior Support Engineer up in our Washington state office: ======== Issue: When enrolling a device that is tethered to a host computer using...

Here's an interesting MDM issue I ran across the other day.  If you're seeing the same package being installed again and again and again on your device then this may be what you're running up against: ======== Issue: A software package may be installed...

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 case you run into it.  If you're trying to run the MDM Management console on the same box as the MDM Reporting console and seeing things disappear...