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Getting Windows Mobile V5.0 working with SBS 2003

OK, so I did not realise we had actually written this up, but at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62797 is the document you need to help you do this.

One quick point to make, with Windows Mobile 5.0 you can no longer turn off Certificate Checking, so you will need to buy a certificate that matches one of the roots on the phone - and this list can be changed by each carrier, so do your homework!!

Windows Mobile V5 also has the always-up-to-date functionality that people often ask for, so this is just another reason to sell these solutions.

Just to add a bit more spice, I also run ALK's Co-Pilot GPS routing tool on my phone - something the "other" devices are not really good at :-)

ttfn

David

Posted Mon, Mar 13 2006 1:28 AM by David Overton
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Paulie wrote re: Getting Windows Mobile V5.0 working with SBS 2003
on Fri, Mar 17 2006 8:01 AM
Excellent! Will have a read later, I think mobile devices have huge potential.

Just a note to say that self signed certificates with SBS do work without a problem.  You just have to install the certificate on your device first!

I run Tom Tom on mine which works great.
David Overton wrote re: Getting Windows Mobile V5.0 working with SBS 2003
on Fri, Mar 17 2006 8:17 AM
Paulie,

This is of course true *IF* your device manufacturer/contract provider allow this.  Some do, some do not.  I would rather that people were aware of the issue rather than found out after a number of activesync error around security.

Quite right to point this out - you can install the certificate if the device allows.  This generally aligns to phones do not allow it & PDA device do allow it.  Of course this is confusing as some phones run the PDA edition of the software :-~

ttfn

David

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