System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 - Helpful Links

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I've been getting a lot of questions around features and links for Mobile Device Manager and Macro Nelson did a great job and I added a few links of my own. 

System Center Mobile Device Manager - Overview:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/mobiledevicemanager

Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Resource Kit - Best Practices Analyzer
https://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec5eedea-7741-4d1b-aba8-a5181847fad3&displaylang=en 

System Center Mobile Device Manager Product Reference Guide
https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/a/4/9a401fa2-4044-4550-af33-8821f826a708/MSCMDM_Product_Reference_Guide.pdf

System Center Mobile Device Manager Demo
https://download.microsoft.com/download/4/b/a/4bad1be6-ad64-413a-b251-7100b70b1eb6/CTIA_Wireless_Clip1_500K.wmv

User Enrollment Demo
https://blogs.technet.com/vik/pages/how-to-enroll-your-windows-mobile-standard-phone-with-mobile-device-manager.aspx

System Center Mobile Device Manager Architecture Overview
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/business/strategy/architecturaloverview.mspx

System Center Product Page:
https://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/mobile
One page overview:
https://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/mobile/evaluation/overview.mspx

120-day Trial/Evaluation Download:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc339027.aspx
MSDN media: https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads

TechNet Product Page:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scmdm

TechNet Forum for SCMDM 2008:
https://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/SCMDM/threads/

Product Documentation:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scmdm/cc304592.aspx
This currently has the following guides listed:
- Architecture Guide
- Planning Guide
- Deployment Guide
- Security Guide

Resource Kit Tools: (v1.1 released on May 14th, 2008)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scmdm/cc304591.aspx
This currently has the following downloads:
- Self Service Portal (SSP)
- Server Tools (See my other blog posting for the v1.0 release)
- Client Tools: ConnectNow and VPNDiag see this blog posting, MDM Managed Device Status Viewer new with the v1.1 release)
- Best Practices Analyzer Tool (BPA)
- Reporting Services (new with v1.1)

One note on the Server and Client Tools:
The v1.0 downloads dated April 1, 2008 where removed and updated with the v1.01 or later dated after May 1, 2008.  Do not extract the older versions to your root C:\ drive folder as it will blow away your OS! See the KB article on this here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/952338.

Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3D6F581E-C093-4B15-AB0C-A2CE5BFFDB47
Emulator setup documentation: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc461417.aspx

Windows Mobile 6.1:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/6-1/default.mspx

Proxy assistance:
To configure a Proxy running ISA server to tunnel HTTPS packets on port 8443 to the Device Management server, use the AddTPRange.vbs script from here: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/managingtunnelports.mspx