WMDC Catches ActiveSync
The new release of Windows Mobile Device Center (6.1 for those of you who are counting) finally adds some key features that ActiveSync 4.5 has had since February. So, if you are an early adopter of Vista, you can now quit feeling like a red-headed stepchild. Well, at least for this application anyway.
Primary among the new features has to be support for Windows Mobile 6 and Exchange 2007 specific enhancements, which finally matters now that WM6 devices are officially releasing into the wild.
The certificate enrollment tool comes in a close second, if only because certificate issues have been such a pain in the posterior since the release of Direct Push.
99% of the enhancements in WMDC 6.1 are for WM6 devices. So if you’re not on WM6 yet, what do you get?
Automatic device authentication is a welcome addition, if for no other reason than it removes a common annoyance that can make some folks turn off device-lock altogether.
Running without device-lock and local wipe is something which I hope the session on Client & Mobile Data at the NOLA conference has remedied, at least among the 170+ folks in attendance.
But I won’t hold my breath on that.
