Microsoft have released a 120-day evaluation edition of their Mobile Device Manager component of the System Center range of products. This server-based product is designed to sit alongside Exchange 2007 and enable more comprehensive device-management and policy-based device administration than Server ActiveSync alone currently provides. The blurb on the Microsoft web site describes the solution thus:
MDM is a Microsoft technology that helps Windows Mobile 6.1 devices work within the IT infrastructure of a company as trusted and managed members of the enterprise.
MDM consists of the following four main system components: MDM Device Management Server, MDM Enrollment Server, MDM Gateway Server, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases. The SQL Server databases must be installed separately.
These components work with key IT services to give managed devices access to selected business data. The primary IT services that work with MDM are the following: Active Directory Domain Service, MDM software distribution, certificate services, and line-of-business application servers, such as Microsoft Exchange.
To learn more about MDM, see System Center Mobile Device Manager TechCenter.
(Related Resources - _http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scmdm/default.aspx)
The software can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site here:
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