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Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Briefing Event 2008

ieitpro — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT

We are hosting a really GREAT Mobility Event on February 21st.

Business right across Ireland are demanding more manageable integrated mobility solutions. To date, mobile devices have often been rolled out in a haphazard fashion and the management of those devices has often been achieved in a non-integrated way. If you subjected the mobile phones and PDAs accessing your corporate network to the same rigours of IT risk and management policies that you do your laptops, how would they measure up?

This event will provide you with an answer to some of your key mobility questions. We will bring you through the Windows Mobile roadmap and also take a comprehensive look at Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. Mobile Device Manager is Microsoft’s comprehensive mobile device management solution that provides greater reliability, reduces maintenance costs, simplifies manageability, and easily scales to support thousands of Windows Mobile users. It also integrates with your Active Directory/Group Policy implementations and with security-enhanced mobile VPN, on-device encryption, remote device wipe, and more. Mobile Device Manager gives users more secure access to the corporate data they need to stay productive virtually anytime and anywhere, including line-of-business applications, SharePoint servers, document libraries, and file shares.

Prizes will be given out on the day!

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Briefing 2008

Speaker: Jason Langridge (Mr Mobile Blog!) – Biography below.

Date: 21 February 2008

Location: Microsoft's Atrium B Building, Carmenhall Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18
Who should attend: IT professionals, IT Managers, Exchange Administrators.
Registration: Click here to register

Full Agenda

08.30 – 09:00 Light breakfast and registration

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome and Introduction

09:10 – 10:10 Windows Mobile Update and introduction System Center Mobile Device Manager.

System Center Mobile Device Manager is a comprehensive mobile device management solution that provides greater reliability, reduces maintenance costs, simplifies manageability, and easily scales to support thousands of Windows Mobile users. With security-enhanced mobile VPN, on-device encryption, remote device wipe, and more, Mobile Device Manager gives users more secure access to the corporate data they need to stay productive virtually anytime and anywhere, including line-of-business applications, SharePoint servers, document libraries, and file shares.

10:10 – 10:40 We will also be showing Case Studies highlighting Windows Mobile Deployments: showing the simplicity and benefits of Windows Mobile.

10:40 – 10:50 Coffee and break

10:50 – 11:20 Unified Communications Update.

The value of the Windows Mobile platform with other Microsoft products is clearly demonstrated in the release of Office Communicator Mobile 2007. Communicator Mobile extends Microsoft’s Live Communications Server’s capabilities to mobile devices, enabling companies to deploy IM and presence-enabled solutions that provide a consistent real-time communications experience across PCs and smart mobile devices.

11:20 – 11:50 Customer Success Story – Northern Ireland Wildlife Ambulance Board and ALK

11:50 – 12:15 How to engage and get started.

12:15 – 12:30 Summary, Q&A, close

Windows Mobile 6: New Datasheet for IT Professionals

ieitpro — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:49:00 GMT

With a host of new features and enhancements, Windows Mobile 6 helps your organization extend previous investments in Microsoft software, infrastructure, and training. Read the full article

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

ieitpro — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:11:00 GMT

Hot off the press - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition has just been released and can be downloaded from this website.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition is the next version of SQL Server Mobile adding the desktop platform. SQL Server Compact extends the SQL Server Mobile technology by offering a low maintenance, compact embedded database for single-user client applications for all Windows platforms including tablet PCs, pocket PCs, smart phones and desktops. Just as with SQL Server Mobile, SQL Server Compact is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight, and embeddable version of SQL Server 2005 for developing desktop and mobile applications.

Windows Vista: Securing Wireless Networks On It’s Showtime!

ieitpro — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:22:00 GMT

Windows Vista: Securing Wireless Networks On It’s Showtime!

With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivers a more secure and manageable wireless platform. This session discusses the Vista wireless networking experience for IT pros as well as important improvements in security, manageability, extensibility and diagnostics. Vista takes the next step in wireless security by natively supporting the highest level of standards-based security (WPA2). By using wireless Group Policy and Scripting features in Vista, IT professionals will enjoy an easier client management experience. Additionally, improved end user support is provided through wireless diagnostics. Some of these new features are demonstrated during this session and your deployment questions will be answered directly by the program managers who own these features.

URL à http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=201