THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" : Mobility

A little registry fix

bradley — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:51:00 GMT

So your sister has a Windows Mobile 3 that she loves. The old Audiovox phone. And they just moved to Exchange 2007 at the office and she's hoping to get the phone to sync up with the Exchange. She doesn't want to get a new phone or an iPhone or a Blackberry or a Google phone or any other phone, she loves the size of the Audiovox device. But the SSL cert they used has a wild card *.domain name and the Windows Mobile 3 and 5 do not like a wildcard cert.

So what's a girl to do?

Why get into the registry and fix it.

http://www.resco.net/smartphone/explorer/default.asp Download the registry app, install the app on the phone, and edit the registry on the phone.

http://forums.msexchange.org/m_1800388186/mpage_2/tm.htm

On the Windows mobile 3 device I went into the registry of the device and added a dword key to basically tell it to merely accept the SSL cert and not do a name check on it.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Activesync\Partners\ID for the Mobile 5 devices

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Airsync\Connection\ for the Mobile 3 devices

Under that registry, in the second below with all the other information, merely add a dword value. Then name of it will be secure and the value is 0 (zero), which look like 0x0 when it's done and on the device.

What this does is stops the device from checking the cert. The connection is still fully SSL'd and secure. I then put the SSL cert from the server on the device itself by going to the OWA web site, exporting the SSL cert from the web site, putting it via a usb sync cable to the device and installing the cert on the device itself. And then voila. It worked.

Picture is blurry as I took it from my other phone ...another still fully operational Audiovox device as well, but you can get the idea

P.S. when any geeky person says "simply browse to the registry key on a mobile device" and you wonder how do to that if the device doesn't have a built in registry editor, check out Resco's registry editor for mobile devices: http://www.resco.net/smartphone/explorer/default.asp

Windows Mobile 6 Update for the Cingular/ AT&T Blackjack

bradley — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:07:00 GMT

News, Trends and Opportunities from the World of Mobility : Windows Mobile 6 Update for the Cingular/ AT&T Blackjack:
http://blogs.technet.com/unwired_realities/archive/2008/03/03/windows-mobile-6-update-for-the-cingular-at-t-blackjack.aspx

For those running the Blackjack, finally the AT&T/Cingular update is out.

New Guide for Windows Mobile 6 and SBS 2003

bradley — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:48:00 GMT

News & Views for Irish SBSC Partners : New Deployment Guide for SBS 2003 & Windows Mobile 6!:
http://blogs.technet.com/sinead_o_grada/archive/2008/01/30/new-deployment-guide-for-sbs-2003-windows-mobile-6.aspx

Go Daddy certs on certain phones

bradley — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:19:00 GMT

Folks have said in the past that not all certs are created equal, that it depends on the phone. That's true but you should be able to get most phones to work. The issue is that some phones have already certain trusted roots inside of them. Some "may" have Godaddy, some don't. In fact a way to see ahead of time which certs will work and which ones won't is to examine the phone's root certificate folder and see which vendors are listed. If they do not trust the vendor of your third party SSL cert, you need to get their certificate bundle "on" the phone. To do this for godaddy certs, follow this post:

http://discussion.treocentral.com/showpost.php?p=1100975&postcount=90

For those using Starfield (GoDaddy) issued certs, you must install the ValiCert root certificate. To download the ValiCert root follow the first 3 steps above to get to your installed certificates. Next view the certificate for your OWA server. Click the Issuer Statement button. You should be taken to a page with all sorts of ValiCert info and options. Near the bottom of the page is a CER file in DER format. Download and copy to your WM device. Install the cert by double-tapping in File Explorer or equivalent. That’s it!

https://certificates.godaddy.com/Repository.go

The trick is to grab those legacy Valicert bundles

Specifically this one:

https://certificates.godaddy.com/repository/valicert_class2_root.cer <<<

And get that bundle on the phone

Copy it to the phone, to someplace like my documents so you can find it, then 'tap' on it to install it. Then you should be good to go.

EDIT... you also need a godaddy specific cert on the device that I exported from the root mmc. All my mobile 6's liked the Godaddy cert, the Mobile 3's I had to get the cert on the device. I've attached the two certs I used to get them to work (see the attached files)

Windows Mobile 5.0 & ActiveSync

We have a few Windows Mobile 5.0 devices appearing and need to get them hooked up to our Exchange 2003 system. We have the infrastructure already in place as we use Outlook Web Access and Outlook Mobile Accesss. We have our front-end servers load balanced and port 443 mapped through from the outside world.

Like its predecessor Windows Mobile 2003, WM 5.0 lacks a wide selection of trusted root certificates installed by default. If you’re using a non-maintream or self-issued certificate you’ll need to do a little extra configuration to get ActiveSync working over the air. With WM 2003 there was a tool to disable certificate checking but it’s not compatible with WM 5.0. Instead follow these instructions:
# In Internet Explorer go to your Outlook Web Access site and ensure your certificate is installed. To check the name of it you can double click on the padlock icon in the bottom right of the browser.
# Now in the Internet Options in IE go to the Content tab and click the Certificates button.
# Now go to the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities and find your certificate.
# Select the certificate and click on the Export button. Follow the wizard and select ‘DER Encoded Binary x.509′ when prompted.
# Choose a suitable file name and finish the wizard.
# You’ll now need to copy the exported certificate to your PocketPC device either via a memory card or by USB. Once it’s on your PPC simply tap it with the stylus and follow the prompts to install it.

With the certificate successfully installed you should be able to synchronise over the air.
This worked perfectly for me and I can now securely sync via ActiveSync over USB or OTA.

The 750 upgrade is now in

bradley — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:58:00 GMT

http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2007/12/and-the-heavens-opened.html

Woo hoo!

I hate bluetooth

bradley — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:44:00 GMT

There I said it. I don't normally give up on technology but I've given up on trying to get an AT&T Tilt connected via bluetooth to act like a modem for a laptop. Instead I will just loan out my wireless card that ALWAYS works.

All of the websites/and boards talked about ... well it works.. but don't forget to reset your phone after using it as it messes up the networking. Huh? Why is it with phones these days that the geeks consider what they do to get it to work normal?

It seems to me the cell phones have turned into the new arena of bad customer service lately. Reminds me of the time that Lily Tomlin did the Ernestine skit where she said "We're the phone company... we don't care! We don't have to!"

I as a customer of AT&T STILL waiting for the promised Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to the Treo 750, I am amazed that once again Microsoft Mobile platform is being totally slammed again by OEMs. The folks on the forums are googling for bootleg versions of Windows Mobile 6 because they have had it with the vendor saying 'soon...soon".

http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=palm&thread.id=11286&view=by_date_ascending&page=20

Meanwhile we are teaching people how to go download software from untrusted locations. Way to go vendors. Lets train customers to go to bootleg sites just because they are so darn frustrated with the manner in which you are promising upgrades.

Just yesterday in fact, a fellow mvp who had a cab file that gave a Windows mobile 6 phone the ability to do RDP was asked to remove it from the file download location. The argument was that it was piracy.

Well excuse me but who is more of the pirate here? If I'm a large corporate AT&T customer, word is that the upgrade is available. If so, that makes AT&T more the pirate than their customers.

Sometimes I just don't get business. Yeah if the goal is to make the customer so frustrated that they will give up and buy the new phones, I guess that's a win for the company, but it's not a good long term win in my book. Verizon opening up the door to non Verizon phones is a start... a good start.. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222771,00.asp but it's one that should be sooner versus later.

It's funny isn't it that the item called "mobility" is offered by some of the least flexible vendors out there?

“Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. (snort) We realize that every so often you can’t get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn’t make. We don’t care. Watch this [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria. (snort) You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can’t handle it. But that’s your problem, isn’t it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don’t you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don’t care. We don’t have to. (snort) We’re the Phone Company!”
– Lily Tomlin, as Ernestine

Looking to upgrade to mobile 6?

bradley — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:08:00 GMT

I know that Chris was talking about how short an update window was on these things so make sure you act now.

http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html

This ROM is available from November 1, 2007 to February 1, 2008. After this date, the ROM will be removed from the website and will no longer be available for distribution.

This ROM update is intended for the AT&T 8525 only and users should not load or attempt to load this version on any other device as it may cause serious issues/damage.

The 750 upgrade on the Palm version isn't even out yet.

http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=palm&thread.id=11286

http://www.palm.com/us/business/solutions/try750.html


It has also been mentioned in Support chats with Palm reps to have been released to a small 
group of high volume cooporate customers for upgrade to current devices only after a huge 
NDA agreement with those companies.

Both of these can be seen as a good thing and as more widespread testing of the update / build 
in real time situations as it has been mentioned from Palm that they have had a particularily 
tough time with issues in this release.

The latest rumored (and I cannot stress enough the word rumor) release date to the general 
population of the update for current AT&T and Cingular devices is Nov. 15th 2007. Again this 
is 10897655453% rumor at this point. -edit- sorry was 15th as next rumored date
http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=palm&message.id=11199

Mobile Device Manager

bradley — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Is it just me or are they coming out with a lot of big server land products that I just don't see them able to scale down to the small biz size. And maybe the way to go for these types of server platforms is to hope that Microsoft is planning to do a hosted version (like they are with Forefront)

Redmond Channel Partner Online | News: Microsoft Adds Mobile Device Management to Lineup:
http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=9176

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008:
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/mobile/default.mspx

Robust Security Management platform for Windows Mobile devices. Mobile Device Manager uses Active Directory/Group Policy—the most widely deployed enterprise network directory in the world—allowing IT professionals to set and control policies in a single, familiar environment.
• Comprehensive Device Management solution for software distribution and device inventory management in a complex organizational environment. With advanced features such as policy enforcement, inventory and reporting, and software targeting in one solution, System Center Mobile Device Manager provides an all-inclusive solution for all Windows Mobile Device Management needs.
• Mobile VPN delivers increased worker productivity with a single point for security-enhanced, behind-the-firewall access to corporate data and line-of-business (LOB) applications on Windows Mobile devices. This is achieved through a cutting-edge mobile VPN optimized for the mobile environment.

Well that was easy...

bradley — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:47:00 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/07/29/a-palm-750-in-the-house.aspx

Well that was easy. I literally connected the Treo 750 to "my" computer, ran through the "connect to exchange activesync" wizard, stuck the two certs (I have ISA) on the device that I have parked on my computer and voila.

The easiest way to get a cert off your system and on to a device is to go into IE and find the two certificates, both in your trusted root certificate store in IE and export them anywhere. Then put the cable with the device, go into explore .....

Once the device is attached, go into Explore and find a folder location that you can remember to find on the device.

Dump the cert files into this folder location

Now take the device and typically it's a matter of tapping enter on the cert to "install" it on the device. The 750 didn't need any hacking or unlocking or anything to get it to accept the self signed cert. Heck it didn't even mind being temporarily activesync'd to a totally different workstation.

Now to figure out if we can do Comcast email "and" hotmail email "and" Outlook Exchange all at the same time.....

To fix a phone

bradley — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:23:00 GMT

The SBS'ized instructions for using this tool:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/14/435267.aspx

Don't. Don't use that tool.
That has to be the most confusing, non GUI...what is it about Exchange people and their use of command line...that I've ever seen.

Instead here's what you do to get your Mobile 3 and 5 phones syncing properly and Outlook calendar items in the proper time.

Okay install the Windows, Exchange patches, yadda yadda... if you've been living under a rock go here, read. Install, do.
Got it?

Okay now download the TZmove.exe tool and show it to the people in your office. Let THEM move their appointments in their Outlooks so when they screw it up they are to blame not you.

Now for the phones -- the fun part.

Okay get the Mobile DST patch.
Pocket PC
Smartphone

You could probably use the desktop updating tool, but I wanted to confirm this process worked first.
Dig out that sync cable that you never use but once in a blue moon and then you forget where you stuck it, dump the cab file update on the phone under my documents. Browse to that location, click to install. Now... go to the phone settings (this is the part I forgot earlier), and change the time zone on the phone to another time zone and PRESS DONE or whatever you need to do to have the phone "take" the zone change. Now change it back to your proper time zone and press DONE again. This is the key I forgot. You need to press done to reset the timezone to another zone and then back.

Set an appointment in the Outlook on the desktop for say... March 17th at noon and place the word "Noon" in the subject line. Sync the phone. Check that the appointment on the 17th is at noon on the phone. If the phone says "noon" and the appointment is showing it's at noon, do a "IT happy dance". If not, go back and make sure you truly CHANGED the time zone and not just scrolled to it. Do the St. Patrick's Day test again (as this is a day in between when the time changes on the 11th and when in April when it normally would. Get to where you can do an "IT happy dance" on each mobile phone/device in your office.

...how many phones are out there in the universe and every single one of them needs a dst patch and a time zone change? Ouch. I cannot see anyway short of touching every phone that big server land are going to be able to have "IT happy dances", do you?

We've got direct push now...

bradley — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:00:00 GMT

Engadget blogs about how the Iphone must connect to Exchange to be the true business killer app. http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/14/will-the-iphone-support-exchange-direct-push/ Yup. If you don't connect to Exchange, you won't get into many businesses. Even Blackberry has a problem when there's a SBS box in the house. Why spend money on a BES box when you have nearly all the ingredients you need in house.

Sure that looks cool...but where's the keyboard for it? All I'll end up is my cheek makeup smeared all over the shiny front anyway...and what? What's this? no 3G?

I just got my 3G card for my Vista laptop and granted... I don't get 3G coverage all the time...but when I do, it's just long enough and good enough that I don't know if I would buy a phone right now, that would give not only Exchange direct push coverage but also the ability to have internet access to a laptop without 3G included. In fact during Seattle's big wind storm, some folks without power were using cell phones for ISP coverage when their cable connection was down for days.

So what ingredients do you need to have email on a phone? Step one you need to go to the carrier in your area and look for the Smart Phones for PDAs. In this case I'm using examples from Cingular as that's my company locally.. or AT&T..whatever...Now keep in mind for us gals, I prefer the smart phone size versus the PDA...but that's just me, and the Cingular 3125 will fit the bill. When you get a phone plan, look for that Smart phone data only add on, which actually was cheaper than the PDA plan (go figure). But I will admit, I don't email from my phone, I only read email and if I need to respond, I fire up the laptop. This 3125 also isn't 3G and thus couldn't double as a web connection for your laptop. I prefer to have a separate card in fact for that purpose only. My current phone the Audiovox isn't sold anymore so if I was looking for a replacement phone, this would be my choice. The key you are looking for as to compatible phones with SBS.... is merely a Mobile 5 platform. As that will hook into Exchange which is already in SBS.

So then it comes down to... do you like the PDAish style with the slide out keyboard like the Cingular 8525.... or...

Do you like the blackberry-ish style with the keyboard on the bottom like the Palm Treo 750

Or maybe you want the Samsung Blackjack. The key to look for is to ensure you are getting a Mobile 5 device.

So once you find the phone, the next step is pretty easy.. you run the CEICW wizard and set up the server for OWA/OMA if you haven't already done so and then, these days... I would probably say... you know... forget the self signed cert way... how about you just buy a third party cert and be done with it.

So ... your next shopping list item is to purchase a certificate from a Small Biz friendly partner... of which they are linked here:
https://partner.microsoft.com/global/partner/40027352 and Godaddy even has one: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?isc=microsoft

And in case you are not sure how to install that Godaddy cert on your SBS box? We have a pdf with info linked on Amy's blog -- http://isainsbs.blogspot.com/2006/10/replacing-sbs-self-signed-ssl.html

More info is in this white paper http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=678d2589-4a71-4618-b4b8-e619a4709ca1&DisplayLang=en

So .... do we have our shopping list in order now?

Phone

3G or no?
Keyboard or not?
Data plan (either one for smartphone or PDA)
Third party cert

And we have our Action plan

Install cert on SBS
Ensure OWA works
Get cert on phone
Put username/password/domain...and...

Voila...

Okay ..one last thing... add a dash of paranoia while we're at it... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2007/01/11/remote-wiping-a-device-with-no-user-input.aspx

.... I'll leave the ring tone shopping to your discretion... (boy are some of them annoying aren't they?)

Need to test out a mobile device?

bradley — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:15:00 GMT

Petergal's SBS Blog : Installing and Configuring the Windows Mobile Stand Alone Emulator w/MSFP Images:
http://blogs.technet.com/petergal/archive/2006/10/02/Installing-and-Configuring-the-Windows-Mobile-Stand-Alone-Emulator-w_2F00_MSFP-Images.aspx

If you ever need to debug or figure out why a mobile phone isn't mobilizing... then follow this post and download this emulator tool. Hands down this is the best way to debug issues with phones because you can kick up the error logging on the device and see what is happening.

Chris Rue has a way more visual how to, but if you want the non visual speed reading version... Peter's will do just fine.

Mobilize me!

bradley — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:23:00 GMT

So tonight at the SMBTNFresno meeting we set the agenda for the rest of the quarter and next month's meeting will be about mobility.. and here's the funny thing... I just heard about a VERY VERY cool event coming across the USA... focusing smack dab on the very topic we picked for our next meeting.. Mobility.

Someone said to me at SMBnation that phones are actually selling servers... go figure ... a $200 phone drives a server purchase.. But check this out.. this is VERY cool!

“Mobilizing the Microsoft Stack,” a nationwide series launching on October 2^nd. We’ll be showing some of the latest gadgets, plus have reps from Verizon, Brightpoint, and Palm at many of the sessions. For the first 40 Microsoft Partners, we’ll even have FREE Windows Mobile devices. The catch is that they have to deploy a Windows Mobile solution within 60 days of the event; details are on the invitation link. Registration is limited, so I’d encourage people to sign up today!

Date	DOW	State	City	Signup URL
10/02/06	Monday	Washington	DC	Link
10/02/06	Monday	San Francisco	CA	Link
10/03/06	Tuesday	Downers Grove	IL	Link
10/03/06	Tuesday	Malvern	PA	Link
10/04/06	Wednesday	Southfield	MI	Link
10/04/06	Wednesday	Dallas	TX	Link
10/04/06	Wednesday	Phoenix	AZ	Link
10/05/06	Thursday	Tampa	FL	Link
10/16/06	Monday	Irvine	CA	Link
10/19/06	Thursday	Waltham	MA	Link
10/25/06	Wednesday	Raleigh	NC	Link
10/26/06	Thursday	Iselin	NJ	Link
11/03/06	Friday	Denver	CO	Link

Dear Allbusiness.com and 0x80070057

bradley — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:16:00 GMT

0x80070057

I'm getting really tired of that error code.

Okay got the emulator set up including putting certificates on it for my server (and use the PocketPc image and not the smart phone as it's in an "unlocked" state so you can use the "shared folder" option in the emulator to then get the cert on the device. Place another person's info into the emulator and it syncs just fine. Put mine in and I get the following:

And googling only gets me...

If you are seeing error: 0x80070057 this is because (it appears) BY DEFAULT the Microsoft Exchange Server – Active Sync has no READ Permissions be sure to Enable READ permissions

Okay thanks folks but other phones DO work so it's not read permissions.... so I kicked up verbose logging on the emulator and I notice that not only is it doing an active sync with my inbox ...it's also hitting my RSS feed folder....

...and then it hits me what's doing it....

THAT STUPID RSS FEED FROM THE SITE ALLBUSINESS.COM SCREWED ME UP

Okay so a few days before SMBnation, the RSS feed for Allbusiness.com had really funky codes up in the subject line. So much so it was taking two lines on the RSS reader. I didn't think anything of it at the time. But those funky codes were what was causing activesync to fail. Once I deleted the subscription to Allbusiness.com's RSS feed, my syncing is now working.

Because that header was in my folders... I couldn't sync.....

So if anyone else has any weird sync issues... check your RSS feeds or weird emails in your inbox.... because it might just work after you delete that RSS feed/folder/email.

There are times I want to be insecure and shoot myself in the foot

bradley — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:39:00 GMT

Issue Description:

A driver is installed that causes stability problems with your system. This driver will be disabled. Please contact the driver manufacturer for an update that is compatible with this version of Windows.

Contact Information:

Web Site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=26320

I appreciate that you want to protect me ...but right now I just want to get an emulator to install so I can debug my phone okay? I was just going to do the version 3 from Peter's post but now I think I'll have to use the version 5 from Chris's.

Partying with a mobile phone on a Friday night

bradley — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:32:00 GMT

Well my Audiovox stopped syncing right before SMBnation and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to sync, so I said I'd deal with it after SMBnation....well I'm dealing with it tonight... or more like it's dealing with me. So I called PSS support ensuring that I called before 6 p.m. when the business critical only kicked in and I went down all the steps that I'd done to troubleshoot and rattled off all the error messages I was giving.... so he wanted to fire up the emulator and see if he could connect.

"So can you provide me with your credentials".

and I said.... uh... hmmmmm...... lemme go reset that password....

In the State of Calfornia we're seeing that CPA firms are being mandated by their Insurance companies to have a confidentiality clause in their managed services contracts. When it comes to allowing remote access by support personnel there's a couple of cardinal rules to live by

Never give them your real password. If you are like most folks, you have passwords that are variations of main passwords. So if you go give them your REAL password, be prepared to reset it and never use that variation again. I went in and set the password to a real sucky one for a temporary basis and then reset it back to the long strong one when done.
Always set up an account with admin rights that you will offer up to remote technicians that is not your main admin account, not the built in admin account, and one that you only enable for them and then disable once they've hopped off the box. Reset the password on that one as well. You want to ensure that you leave accountability in your log files. I have a disabled admin account called "Msoft". With a password that I invarably forget what I've set it so I just reset it to what I need.
If you are like me and don't set up straight TS access to the web and only do VPN, they do have other ways to 'get on' your box. If you don't feel comfortable with offering up TS or VPN credentials, they can use things like an remote Office Live meeting session.. it's a little bit awkward and icky for them, but if you are not comfortable, just say so as they do have options. But at a minumum, if you do give a technician a username and password on the system, the minute you are done, reset the password, disable the account.
When troubleshooting a mobility issue and you attempt to test a connection over a non SSL connection JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES... remind yourself that you have a router between you and the outside world... a router that has port 80 closed.....yup... I was attempting to do a non SSL connection to port 80 and 80 wasn't open to use for debugging purposes.
So when the support guy told me to delete the user account and set it back up again.... I sort of went ... uh... hmmm....that's MY account that I'd have to be setting back up again... how about I try a couple of things offline and get back to you? Bottom line, if something goes beyond what you want to rip out at this time, don't be afraid to stop the process and try more things on your own. They'll give you a phone number and an SRX to start the case up again with.

So Vlad came up with an excellent debugging suggestion... I knew that others in the office were still syncing just fine...just not mine. And in the IIS log files he couldn't see the phone hitting the server. I also knew that just today I had totally swapped phones, switching SIM cards, taking them back to fresh out of the box phones, reinstalling the cert and starting all over again and when I moved another SIM to my old phone, that ActiveSync worked just fine. But the Sync still got stuck on the 'new' phone. So we knew the issue wasn't physically connected to the device. I also tested that the phone could get out to the Internet. So Vlad said "why don't you sync to another person's mailbox that you know is syncing just fine" and still the same errors, the same messages.

We think now the phone's SIM card has gotten horked up. I have my other cingular aircard for the computer that has a chip, I may go home and try that to see if the phone still screws up.

Error messages are 0x80004005, 0x80070057

.....sigh... synchronization failed....try again later.. Yeah I think I'll pack it in for the night. I think I'll fire up an emulator at home and just make sure it is the SIM card...or at least appears to be.

..... I want my phone back .... I miss my email on my phone.... my poor little phone... sigh

P.S. KB to keep in one's pocket http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330463/EN-US/

In Mark Mulvaney's talk about Mobility

bradley — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:19:00 GMT

...and the blog post you need to follow to install the Exchange admin on a SBS box and not end up with a duplicate default web site is this...

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/02/07/418937.aspx

If you end up with two "default" web site.. no worries....just stop the one that is wrong and delete it.. just make sure that it's not the GOOD one you remove.

I feel like a game of "Twister"

bradley — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:54:00 GMT

Reset the Audiovox 5600 (and iMate SP3, etc):

Turn the phone off
Press and hold the two soft keys under the screen
Continue holding the keys and turn on the phone
You will be prompted to press '0' key to wipe everything back to factory defaults
Follow the prompts

Try to do that on a smart phone and your fingers get in the way.......

The "getting the cert on the device" method that always works.

bradley — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:42:00 GMT

From the mailbag tonight...Mat asks..

I have been struggling with this for quite some time, I have found a solution and I wonder what you think of it.

I was trying to set up Exchange active sync with over the air push. My Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox T830 absolutely refused to accept the self signed cert from my SBS 2003 server when using the documented Microsoft method. I got no help from the Fujitsu website and all the advice I could get from the Microsoft documentation suggested I should buy a third party cert. I didnt want to spend money on getting it to work so i tried an alternative. Every time you vist the server remotely over RWW it asks you to accept a certificate, which I always do, I decided to install that cert into my IE browser, export it to my local PC remotely and try installing that cert instead (for some reason the resulting cert file size is different from the documented method of extracting the cert so they are definately different). To my amazement, it worked perfectly. I have no explaination as to why it worked or how it worked, it just did. I love it.

You know..the method you described worked for me like a champ as well...

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2005/07/27/59768.aspx

And even the documentation blog is asking if folks are having issues with the instructions.... I think the answer is ... Yes.

Remote device wipe on a mobile 5 device

bradley — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:49:00 GMT

Want to see remote device wipe in action for a Mobile device 5?

Check it out at the funcave!