{{Unreferenced, date=August 2023 System Center Mobile Device Manager is a

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(MDM) solution providing over-the-air (OTA) management of

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security, applications and settings. System Center Mobile Device Manager supports devices running the

6.1 and above operating system. Earlier, functions of this product were provided by

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. Important: Mainstream support for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 ended on July 9, 2013, and extended support ended on July 10, 2018.

Features

Through ActiveDirectory-based policies, the product provides the following functions: * Provisioning of device settings: provisioning the managed devices with settings, such as E-mail accounts and access points. * Settings monitoring: setting and verifying the settings of managed devices, gathering diagnostics information, and application inventory. * Device security: back up, restore, lock, wipe, and set up functionality restrictions for managed devices. * Asset and application management: install/remove, update, gather inventory, version check, and the starting or stopping of mobile applications, such as virus protection, encryption, and mobile email clients.

Client

System Center Mobile Device Manager client is located in

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. All device management activities are centrally managed from the server side.

Server

System Center Mobile Device Manager server components are deployed on multiple server computers, including a Mobile VPN server, a Windows Update server, and an ActiveDirectory domain controller.

References

External links

Solution guide: Manage mobile devices and PCs by migrating to Configuration Manager with Windows Intune

Solution guide: Mobile device management for Configuration Manager 2007 customers planning to migrate to System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

Windows Intune TechNet Library

System Center Configuration Manager TechNet Library
Mobile software Windows Mobile