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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had one new MDM Knowledge Base article. The link and title is below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=960920 Constraint violation 0x8007202F running AdConfig /enableGPSecurity System Center Mobile...

For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had one updated KB article for System Center Mobile Device Manager.  The link and title is below: ======== Sys Ctr Mobile Dvc Mgr 2008 EN 951840 - Attempts to validate Windows Mobile device certificates and...