I tested some ActiveSync policies on Windows Mobile and was wondering how it would look on the user's mobile phone - this is how it looks. What if you disallow the camera? This behaved a little bit different if it was on a Sony Ericsson X2 (Windows Mobile 6.5) and Sony Ericsson X1 (Windows Mobile 6.1). On 6.1, I got a message saying "Cameras are not allowed here" but on the X2 it just silently closes the camera when I [...]
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Categories: ActiveSync, Mobile, Other
I was asked to investigate how to run certificate-based authentication on both Windows Mobile 6.5 and Symbian (Nokia) devices. The most common type of authentication when running ActiveSync is Basic Authentication. This basically means that when the client (in this case your mobile phone) makes a request, it will supply a username and password. For security, SSL encryption is used so your username and password is not sent over the Internet in cleartext. Sure, you could skip the SSL certificate [...]
Categories: ActiveSync, Certificate and CA
