Johann's Unified Communications : wm6

Palm Treo Pro

jkruse — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:38:40 GMT

After a lot of whining, begging and stalking DonK, I finally managed to get my hands on a loaner Palm Treo Pro for Tech.Ed next week.

Palm Treo Pro on the left, Palm Treo 750 on the right

Great device! Read my brief review over at the Windows Mobile Oz blog.

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Windows Mobile 6.1 - my favourite bits

jkruse — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:52:31 GMT

I've been playing with Windows Mobile 6.1 for the last few days, so thought I'd share some of my favourite features.

Today screen - minus Exchange E-mail/calendar (see below)

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Exchange Auto-discover

Now there's no need to know your CAS server URL - all you need is your email address/password, and Windows Mobile will use the Exchange auto-discover service to automatically provision your device for push email/calendar/tasks/security.

Type your email address and password

Choose what you want to sync from Exchange

Done! Notice the Outlook E-Mail and calendar appointments

Task Manager

For those memory-intensive or hung apps - there is now a proper Task Manager to view/kill.

System Settings

Task Manager

Domain Enroll

Make your device an AD domain member for device management/security.

Connections screen

Similar to Auto-discover - enter your email/password

(I'm not connected to the corporate network right now hence I didn't actually enroll my device)

[UPDATE]

Threaded txt

Office Mobile

Yeah this has been there for a while, but it now supports Office 2007 file formats out-of-the-box.

Once I get the right adapter for VGA output from my phone - I'm aiming to do customer presentations from my phone :)

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Windows Mobile technical library - now at TechNet

jkruse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:48:00 GMT

Finally, Windows Mobile has been added to the TechNet technical library.

In-depth technical information on Deployment, Operations and Security for Windows Mobile 5 and 6.

Check it out, and bookmark it - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc182292.aspx

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Windows Mobile 6 for the Palm Treo 750

jkruse — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:02:17 GMT

Great news for Australian users of the Palm Treo 750 (like me!).

I got an email notification from Telstra today that WM6 is now available for download for the Treo 750 - which now means that it is officially supported on the Vodafone, 3 and Telstra networks!

The download and more information is available at http://www.palm.com/au/products/smartphones/treo750/whatsnew.html?creativeID=AU_WM6_Telstra_SMS

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Microsoft Office Mobile 6.1: Upgrade for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats

jkruse — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:46:30 GMT

Office Mobile 6.1 is an upgrade to Office Mobile applications on Windows Mobile. The new upgrade supports the new Office 2007 file formats.

Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b106c1f-51e2-42f0-ba32-69bb7e9a3814&DisplayLang=en

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Exchange ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool

jkruse — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:21:43 GMT

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync.

These utilities include:

A tool to assist the administrator in configuring certificate enrollment for mobile devices connecting to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Specifically, the tool will help the administrator populate the Active Directory with the following information to be used by the mobile device when enrolling for a certificate:

Certification authority (CA) server name
Certificate template that will be used
Other settings, such as custom Web enrollment URLs

Because the tool writes information to the Active Directory, it must be run by someone with domain administrator privileges.

Additional tools to validate that a mobile device can successfully retrieve the above configuration information from the Active Directory.
Documentation outlining the server configuration steps necessary to enable & require certificate-based authentication for Exchange ActiveSync.

Download it now from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82510e18-7965-4883-a8c3-f73f1f4733ac&DisplayLang=en

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Office Communicator Mobile 2007 for WM5/6 - now available!

jkruse — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:47:30 GMT

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile is a Unified Communications client for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Communicator Mobile runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6.0 software for Pocket PC and smartphone devices.

Here are some screenshots from my phone.

A presence indicator is installed on your Today screen. (yes I know that's a lot of unread email - that's what I'm going to do next. I swear!)

My personal contact groups.

Expanding my Nortel contact list. Yes, Nortel. That is federation in action, so this is not limited to contacts inside your corporate network!

More detail on Kirsten Gilbertson from Nortel (her contact details deliberately removed for privacy reasons). I can she'll be free at 6:30pm (that automatically comes direct from her Outlook calendar) - and I can call any of her phones, email her, or send a txt message straight from Communicator.

How cool is that!!??

Download it now from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2eea3e24-f216-4887-92b0-f37d942e26e0&displaylang=en

(Oh and if you're wondering how I took the screenshot with the Treo 750 skin - SOTI Pocket Controller is your friend. It is the single best tool for Windows Mobile demos/presentations :))

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Windows Mobile 5/6 in Common Criteria Evaluation

jkruse — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:20:44 GMT

Excellent news on the security front for Windows Mobile 5 and 6.

Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 is now on the DSD Evaluated Products List (EPL) list -http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/evaluation_services/epl/epl.html

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