Microsoft
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System Center Mobile Device Manager2008
A Technical White Paper
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AbstractThis white paper provides an overview of Microsoft® System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, anend-to-end solution for provisioning, securing and managing Windows Mobile devices in a corporatenetwork. The paper addresses the key mobile device challenges faced by IT administrators today—including management, control, maintenance, device security, and support—and discusses how SystemCenter Mobile Device Manager helps IT administrators address these issues. The paper also provides anoverview of the long-term benefits of this end-to-end mobile device management enterprise solution........ 3Section 2: Solutions to IT’s Mobile ChallengesThis section of the white paper underlines the benefits of System Center Mobile Device Manager bypresenting real-life scenarios pertaining to device management, security management, and Mobile VPN.4Mobile VPN with Mobile Device Manager Administrators need to be certain that mobile devices connect to the corporate network over a secureconnection. With the help of Mobile VPN, Mobile Device Manager ensures that Windows Mobile deviceusers access their corporate network (via a network service provider or an external Wi-Fi connection)through an encrypted link. As a result, Windows Mobile device users gain security–enhanced, behind-the-firewall access to corporate data and LOB applications for Windows Mobile devices.......................6Section 3: System Center Mobile Device Manager—A Comprehensive Mobile Device ManagementSolutionMobile Device Manager is designed to be a reliable, end-to-end solution that can easily scale to managethe needs of an enterprise’s growing mobile workforce. Not only is it easy to deploy in an existingWindows Server infrastructure, but as an organization grows and its mobile computing needs multiply,Mobile Device Manager has the capacity to scale accordingly. This section of the white paper examinesthe scalable architecture of Mobile Device Manager and provides details of the Microsoft products andtechnology it supports..................................................................................................................................7Section 4: ConclusionSystem Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a comprehensive server solution for the management of Windows Mobile phones. It empowers IT professionals to provide a highly secure data and networkaccess for their mobile workforce, while retaining a high degree control over their mobile device usage.Mobile Device Manager is easy to deploy, integrate, and maintain with existing IT infrastructure and ishighly scalable for efficient mobile device management and provisioning. In summary, it is the single pointof management for Windows Mobile devices in the enterprise....................................................................8
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Abstract
This white paper provides an overview of Microsoft® System Center Mobile DeviceManager 2008, an end-to-end solution for provisioning, securing and managingWindows Mobile devices in a corporate network. The paper addresses the keymobile device challenges faced by IT administrators today—including management,control, maintenance, device security, and support—and discusses how SystemCenter Mobile Device Manager helps IT administrators address these issues. Thepaper also provides an overview of the long-term benefits of this end-to-end mobiledevice management enterprise solution.
Section 1: Introduction to System Center Mobile Device Manager
Today IT teams have to manage an ever-expanding fleet of mobile devices andensure that every device is authorized, has secure access and adequatepermissions on the network, and does not compromise the security of corporatedata. Simultaneously, IT professionals also have to maintain a balance betweenenforcing corporate policies on devices and allowing end users a certain degree of control over their personal devices. In order to address these challenges, IT teamshave to depend on multiple proprietary solutions to manage and secure mobiledevices within a corporate network. This tends to increase costs of purchasing andmaintaining multiple solutions. In addition, the IT support teams have to spendmore time familiarizing themselves with proprietary third-party solutions.What IT professionals need is a flexible, end-to-end solution that helps them to easethe process of securing and managing devices within a corporate network, whileproviding a more secure, single-point access for line-of-business (LOB) applicationsand corporate data.System Center Mobile Device Manager is a comprehensive, reliable, and low-costmanagementsolution that can be easily deployed into an enterprise’s existing Microsoftinfrastructure. Designed to address the three core requirements of IT professionals—security, device management, and Mobile VPN—Mobile Device Manager is asolution that helps administrators to efficiently address the growing need for greatersecurity and manageability of Windows Mobile
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Security Management
System Center Mobile Device Manager provides a security management platformfor Windows Mobile phones with over 130 policies and settings and built-inmechanisms that help prevent the misuse of corporate data. Administrators canlock down many areas of the Windows Mobile smartphones, including certaincommunications and device functionality, while exercising significant control over
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