How do you go about taking an untrusted and unmanaged Windows Mobile device and elevating it to the status of "first class citizen of the enterprise?" The answer is to deploy Microsoft's Systems Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. One of the interesting things associated with SCMDM 2008 is found in the "Assumptions" section of the product documentation: "To deploy MDM, you have to have a general understanding of the following:"
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Domain controllers
- Global catalog servers
- Active Directory Directory Service
- Group Policy management
- Virtual private networks (VPNs)
- Network protocols
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Microsoft Internet Information Service 6.0 (IIS)
- Certificates and Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
