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Mobile Device manager Security Policies

I often get asked – what are the 130+ policies and settings that are available through System Center Mobile Device Manager?
Well our MDM team has created two great articles that list all the policies available:
Security Policies - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc135661.aspx
Messaging Policies - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc135680.aspx

Tags: blog, device manager, microsoft, mobile device, security policies, system

MSFT heart Windows Mobile

Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people…one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn’t use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product. To see just how passionate they can be, check out [...]

Free Professional Development Tools for Students

A few years ago when I was getting my Bachelor’s Degree I decided to learn how to write code for mobile devices (I had Compaq Ipaq at that time that was running Pocket PC 2003 version of the software). I downloaded eVC 4 and wrote my first little program for my device. It was an [...]

Faster C#

Hi everybody, my name is Roshan Khan and I’m a dev working on Windows Mobile at MS. I’ve been working at the Mobile Devices division for the past 18 months. For the majority of my day I’m working in C++ and on a few unfortunate occasions assembly. Whenever I get the chance however, I try [...]

Video: Demos of cool new Windows Mobile 6.1 features

Windows Mobile 6.1 was just announced at CTIA yesterday. A bunch of us got together to record a video demoing most of the new features in Windows Mobile 6.1. Check out this 40-minute video that shows:

Cool devices, including the T-Mobile Shadow, HTC Tilt, Pantech Duo, Moto Q9
The new Sliding Panel home screen (aka “Bronze”)
All new [...]