Category Archives: Windows Phone

Use the Exchange Management Shell or LDAP to get a list of quarantined mobile devices

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You can use Exchange Control Panel to view the list of Exchange ActiveSync devices that are in a quarantined state.  I wanted to be able to get this list without using ECP, but I didn’t know where this information is stored: Exchange or AD?  Long story short, it is stored in AD.  Every Exchange ActiveSync partnership exists as an AD object (whose class is msExchActiveSyncDevice) located as a child object of the user object whose mailbox has the partnership.  The access state of the device is stored as an integer in the msExchDeviceAccessState attribute of the object.

To use EMS to get the list, run this command:

If you want to use LDAP to get the list, this is the corresponding search filter:

(&(objectclass=msexchactivesyncdevice)(msexchdeviceaccessstate=3))

The device access state values are 1 for allowed, 2 for blocked, 3 for quarantined.

TechEd 2011: WP7 Mango update a snoozer

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Microsoft announced more details of the Windows Phone 7 update (Mango), due out later this year.  They hyped the enterprise features, which are nothing to be proud of, IMO.  Support for searching you server-side mailbox.  Already in WM 6.x?  Check.  Support for IRM.  Already in WM 6.x?  Check.  Lync client. Communicator Mobile for WM 6.x to connect to OCS already?  Check.  A mobile client for Lync should have been released with Lync server RTM.  Conversation views.  Already in WM 6.x?  Check.

Where is the at-rest device encryption?  It is already a cliche to say that it is ironic when Microsoft’s own mobile OS doesn’t support all of their Exchange ActiveSync policies, one of them being the very thing whose absence will keep the OS out of the enterprise.  Because my company deals with PHI/PII, we require at-rest encryption, which means the only devices that we allow via EAS are iDevices, Android with Touchdown installed, and Windows Mobile 6.x.

One may argue that WP7 is a consumer device.  But MS has abandoned everything for WM 6.x.  They may say that WP7 is a consumer device, but they treat as their one-and-only OS for home and business.  They didn’t even release a TechEd app for WM for 6.x, only WP7 (and Android).  So if you release an app for 10,000 enterprise geeks at your premier technical conference for IT Pros and Developers on only your consumer-targeted mobile OS, what message are you really sending about who you target audience is?