System Centre Mobile Device Manager

I can't tell you just how bored I am of writing System Centre now
;-)

This lecture was about planning and deploying SCMDM. I thought it would be quite architectural but it was mostly run throughs of the wizards.

Key facts:

• Planning is very important as you need to touch many areas within IT - firewall, Active Directory and policies, security, SCCM and so on.
• Need to clearly define who 'owns' SCMDM due to the above.
• No Active Directory Schema changes are required
• Best Practices Analyser tool can be run pre and post deploymnet and it can report any errors or changes that need to be made.
• Device lifecycle is important to define as you don't wnat non-standard devices to cause problems.
• Coonsider who should support the end device and service, i.e. if the operator supports the phone but you support the service how are problems resolved where they interrelate? Need careful commercial negotiation before deployment.
• List of devices that will be Windows 6.1 can be found here > www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/mobiledevicemanager/devices.mspx