I am at the Ankara Airport and seems that I will be here for a while. So I was checking my e-mails, and saw some cool applications were available for download. ActiveSync Web Administration Tool and ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool

ActiveSync Web Administration Tool

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration tool enables administrators to manage the process of remotely erasing lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised mobile devices.

By using the Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Web tool, administrators can perform the following actions:

• View a list of all devices that are being used by any enterprise user
• Select/De-select devices to be remotely erased
• View the status of pending remote erase requests for each device
• View a transaction log that indicates which administrators have issued remote erase commands, in addition to the devices those commands pertained to

ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync. These utilities include:

• A tool to assist the administrator in configuring certificate enrollment for mobile devices connecting to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Specifically, the tool will help the administrator populate the Active Directory with the following information to be used by the mobile device when enrolling for a certificate:
  • Certification authority (CA) server name
  • Certificate template that will be used
  • Other settings, such as custom Web enrollment URLs
• Additional tools to validate that a mobile device can successfully retrieve the above configuration information from the Active Directory.
• Documentation outlining the server configuration steps necessary to enable & require certificate-based authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync.