If you’ve ever recorded a video on your Windows Phone you may have noticed that the extension is .3gp. Well, .3GP is a simplified version of the MPEG-4 (MP4) container format, designed to decrease storage and bandwidth requirements in order to accommodate...

There is a lot of talk about what policies Windows Mobile Supports and you can find a Matrix here on the various security policies you can apply to Windows Phones. Today I’ve decided to expand a little on the on device encryption and SD Card encryption...

While the ability to send and receive SMS and MMS has existed for quite a while in Windows Mobile still can’t Send SMS messages to Predefined Groups, backup SMS messages to the desktop and auto reply to missed calls.  Well it looks like the guys...

At Mobile World congress Microsoft announced that the never version of Widows Mobile would be Windows Mobile 6.5.  here is a sneak peak at what we can expect. You can see the Video comments on new solutions coming to the platform.  A brand new...

I’ve been getting questions on what the latest version of a ROM versions for Devices.  Well I’ll be honest, its not an easy thing to keep tack of.  That said Marco Nielsen has been doing a great job of keeping track of the latest and greatest...

Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser, which is codenamed Fennec, is now available for Windows Mobile. Mozilla has released a pre-alpha test build of the Windows Mobile port for users who want to get an early look at the program. This release is designed to...

I got the question the other day on using Twitter with Windows Mobile, luckily there is a great application already out there for Twitter on Windows Mobile - PockeTwit “What I like is that it works on both your Pocket PC device and smartphone.  Mike...

When you buy a Windows Mobile phone you end up with a few CDs.  Many of you may just throw them away and hit the net for what you really need, but if you look in the box you’ll find that there is often a copy of Outlook, a disc with Activesync 4...

    As it turns out, a lot of people are using iTunes to manage their music, and they want to start taking advantage of Windows Mobile’s Media player.  Well it looks like there are a few solutions out there from free to pricy, and I’ve...

If you are running into sync issues, or you’d like to troubleshoot an Activesync issue on your Windows Mobile Device, setting up Verbose Logging and parsing the logs is sometimes the quickest way to find the problem. Setting up Windows Mobile for Verbose...

Customers who have a CISCO VPN solution and want to extend it out to Windows Mobile devices need to look no further than the Bluefire VPN Client. The company says its Mobile Security Suite 3.5 and Mobile Security VPN 2.0 applications have been certified...

I've been traveling quite a bit lately and the one question I've gotten a lot in Asia and in Europe is around Language Support in Windows Mobile so I thought I'd attempt to address it.  Unlike Windows Vista, Windows Mobile doesn't have a MUI or Multilingual...

I've been getting a lot of questions around features and links for Mobile Device Manager and Macro Nelson did a great job and I added a few links of my own. System Center Mobile Device Manager - Overview: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/mobiledevicemanager...

I've gotten a lot of questions around Line of Business solutions that would allow our customers to fill out forms on mobile devices to collect data. While you could create a website, develop a form and connect it to a webservice that would collect the...

Well I've been getting a lot of questions around Battery Power and I thought I'd write something covering battery power on Windows Mobile Devices. When it comes to a mobile device, Windows Mobile or other, battery power is really limited by 5 things....

I’ve been getting a lot of questions around which Mobile features work with the different versions of Exchange currently available in the Market – Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2007 SP1. Since each is a drastic improvement from its predecessor...

When Windows Mobile 5 was released it was released without the ability to do GAL lookup. To deal with this a add-on was developed from the product team that allowed you to do both GAL Lookup and check Free-Busy. Well in Windows Mobile 5.0 GAL lookup was...

Update for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 A free download is now available for devices with existing Office Mobile installations. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b106c1f-51e2-42f0-ba32-69bb7e9a3814&DisplayLang=en This free upgrade...

When you setup Exchange Activesync in Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 by default it is setup to use SSL with 128bit RC4 Encryption. There is a way to increase the Encryption from RC4 to 168bit 3DES Encryption that is FIPS Certified. SSL with 3DES can be...

Take from: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2004/05/10/129376.aspx Issue: You have a Single Exchange 2003 Server acting as both your front End Server and your Back End server. When you try to Sync you get the following error Code on the Device: 85010014...

The problem with entering contact information on your Phone and Outlook and anything else that may be syncing with your contacts is that a lot of the time you end up with information they may not be entered in a uniform way. The File As attribute is often...

The need for getting information on users using Activesync as well as devices connecting to the environment has become a big ask for a number of customers. While all the information is on the Exchange Frontend Servers there isn’t any way to get this information...

A lot of times you want to be able to install all your applications directly from you SD card, but most applications don't make that easy. Most of the time all you get from the application vendor is the PC installer. To get the CAB file you can normally...

The need for accessing Sharepoint on Windows Mobile is becoming a huge ask and this week I'm going to take some time on the various ways you can get to your Sharepoint sites via Windows Mobile 1. Using new features in Exchange 2007 with Windows Mobile...

May companies these days are moving to Unified Communications, and with ease of use and the ability to receive voicemails via e-mail the ask of listening to those voicemails while your away from your desk has become quite popular. The Issue This issue...