Locking down SCMDM servers securely by Marco Nielsen - 12/30/2009 Just a quick nod to J.C. Hornbeck and Clint Koenig at Microsoft on the great reminder to use the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) for Windows 2003 templates available in the SCMDM 2008 SP1 Resource Kit – Server Tools download.
SCMDM Future Roadmap by Marco Nielsen - 7/2/2009 Since the release of SCMDM SP1 back in December 2008 there has been very little information on the roadmap. One of my colleagues let me know that updated information on this topic was recently posted to the System Center Mobile Device Manager blog.
SCMDM 2008 SP1 Support for Windows 2008 CA by Marco Nielsen - 6/10/2009 Just noticed that Michael Jimenez recently blogged and announced official Microsoft support for Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition Certificate Authority with SCMDM 2008 SP1.
Verifying Microsoft Installation Media by Marco Nielsen - 5/12/2009 A question that has come to me several times has been how to verify if an specific installation is running a time limited evaluation copy or full blown copy. Many Microsoft products can now be downloaded and installed as evaluations and you usually can't tell the product apart.
SCMDM 2008 SP1 PIN Reset or Password Recovery Feature by Marco Nielsen - 5/11/2009 This is a brand new feature of SP1 of great interest in an enterprise implementation. This mimics the similar Exchange and Windows Mobile device functionality, but without the need for any Exchange requirements.
