Lenovo ThinkPad Deployment Manual

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Chapter 4. Lenovo Mobility ManagerLenovo has a mobility management plug-in that enables you to:• Discover devices, without an agent at the point of data access, through Microsoft Exchange ActiveSyncsystems• Know which users are consuming corporate data and what devices they are using• Push down corporate management and security settings to out-of-policy devices• Wipe data using a single user-based policy from devices that are lost or stolen or when someone leavesyour organization• Improve business processes for reclaiming corporate IT assets and proprietary information as in thecase of employee terminationThe Lenovo Mobility Manager requires the user to log in to the configuration server using a PIN, which theuser retrieves by logging in to a PIN server from a PC. The user authenticates to the PIN server usingcorporate credentials, and supplies that PIN when logging on to the Lenovo Mobility Manager configurationserver from his ThinkPad Tablet. After connecting to the configuration server, the IT-provided configurationinformation is pushed to the device and the device is automatically configured.To use the Mobility management tools, the following prerequisites are required:• Lenovo ThinkManagement Console Version 9.0 with SP2 or later.• For Exchange-enabled devices, you must have installed the Exchange Management Tools, available as anoption from within the Microsoft Exchange installation.• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Internet Information Services (IIS) must be installed andregistered.When a mobile device logs in to synchronize e-mail, contact, and calendar information, it does so using anexisting Outlook mailbox account. Once the device has logged in, the Exchange server stores identifyinginformation in its database, including the Device ID, owner, the date/time it logged in, and so on. Thatinformation can then be retrieved from the Exchange server and displayed in the Mobility management tool.© Copyright Lenovo 2011 15