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Security Configuration Manager Powertoy for Windows Mobile.

  • Artikkeli

At MEDC 2006 this year, I had a chance to give an instructor led lab regarding Windows Mobile Security. At the lab we unveiled a tool that allows you to understand the security configuration on your device a little better.

The Security Configuration Manager allows you to:

  • See the current security configuration on your connected device (including certificates)
  • See the policies and certificates for standard security configurations.
  • Check the signature on a file.
  • Provision the development certificates or a standard security configuration to your connected device. (If you have the rights to do so)

You can download the Powertoy from

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7e92628c-d587-47e0-908b-09fee6ea517a&displaylang=en

Enjoy!

Luis E. Cabrera
SDE - Microsoft

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2006
    Thanks!! I was there at MEDC 2006 when you used it...it's a great tool.

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2006
    Great!!!! Just the other I was cursing that there was no easy way to see what security configuration my smartphone had, while reading up on mobile security.

    Unfortunately it seems that SCM does not support f.ex. SmartPhone 2003 - what a pity!

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2006
    Just curious before I authoriize the purchase of the Motorola Q with your software to 100 of my employees when there might be an upgrade to 5.0?  I understand that there have been some complaints about too many frustrating "clicks" to get simple things done compared to Blackberry's software.

    Thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2006
    Bob Weisman: The Moto Q already comes with Windows Mobile 5.0. There may be upgrades for other features in the future, but if it's WM 5.0 you're after, no upgrade is required for the Moto Q. If you have concerns about usability, drop me an email and we can discuss it offline. I can get you in touch with the right people to compare it with BlackBerry.

    -Mel Sampat
    melsam (at) microsoft.com

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2006
    After installation, I'm getting an immediate "Security Configuration Manager has encountered a problem and needs to close."

    Clicking "What data does this error report contain?" the Error signature includes "system.badimageformatexception"

    Running on XP64

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2006
    Greg,

    The Security Configuration Manager has been tested only on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Service Pack 2. I have got it to work on Windows Vista as well (given that a device has been connected to Vista previously).  

    Unfortunately XP64 is not really "supported" by the Security Configuration Manager.

    Thanks Greg,

    -Luis.

  • Anonymous
    June 27, 2006
    Hi Luis

    We have developed an application for a customer that targets a set of windows mobile5 devices.

    At this stage we want to avoid signing our assemblies with a mobile to market certificate.  

    All the devices are configured to have the one-tier security model with the prompt enabled as seen in the Security Configuration Manager (SCM) (which is very cool by the way).

    We have a desktop installer process that we want to add functionality to change the device configuration and remove the prompt.

    We can provision the device successfully using the SCM but ideally we would like to do this in via code (i.e. an executable run during the install that employs RAPI to adjust the device security) or possibly some other method during installation via our desktop installer.

    Could you please give us some advice on how to achieve these objectives?

    Thanks for your help

    Dan

  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2006
    Thanks Luis,

    the approach you suggested did the trick for us.

    Dan

  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
     
    Software / Hardware 

    Interesting.  TechFaith Wireless is shows off SLVR and i320...

  • Anonymous
    August 01, 2006
    I'm trying to use this app with no luck so far.
    The connected device does not seem to be recognized.

    It doesn't progress past "Querying device information" in the status bar.

    Any tips?

  • Anonymous
    August 01, 2006
    Andre,
    What OS are you using? What device are you connecting to?

    Thanks.
    -Luis.

  • Anonymous
    August 01, 2006
    I would like to point out the following link regarding the Mobile2Market has been updated recently.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/partners/mobile2market/smartphoneapps/default.aspx

    Thanks,

    -Luis E. Cabrera

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2006
    Luis, We have an application which works fine against PPC2003. But when it comes to WM5, it shows the message of 'unknown publisher'. Is it programatically possible to turn off the security  in the device, install the cab file and then restore the security level ? Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks, Vino

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2006
    hi, "Security configuratio manager" app coulnd't pass the "Querying device configuration". device is hp6915 windows mobile 5.0 pc is XP Pro SP-2 ActiveSync 4.2 installed Thanks for any advice

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2006
    The SCM seems to require Administrators rights on the PC that executes it. Is it true ?

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2006
    True. It does need Administrator rights.

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2007
    You can get it to work on a 64bit OS by forcing the binary to be 32bit. Try using corflags.exe /32BIT+.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    A few months ago I wrote a blog post showing the Security Configuration Manager Powertoy. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/22/643027.aspx

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    A few months ago I wrote a blog post showing the Security Configuration Manager Powertoy. http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/22/643027.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 29, 2007
    The connected device does not seem to be recognized. It doesn't progress past "Querying device information" in the status bar. The device I use is imatsp3, OS on device is winCE4,2 OS on desktop is Xp. Any help pointers would be really appreciated Keerthi

  • Anonymous
    July 02, 2007
    Can you please tell me why, when I run the configuration manager, it does not connect to my Mobile 5 iPAQ, even though the device is connected (ie ActivSync is running)? Thank You.

  • Anonymous
    August 22, 2007
    Luis, A lot of people can't seem to get past the "Querying device information" step, including myself. Could you please help us all? Regards Ulric.

  • Anonymous
    August 22, 2007
    I am not sure what is causing you not to be able to query the device configuration. Things to verify:

  • If there is a prompt on your device while querying the device configuration, make sure to allow the CAB to install on the device.
  • The app needs Administrator rights to work.
  • Make sure ActiveSync is working properly for you. (i.e. you can sync data between your device and the computer).
  • The app was written for Windows Mobile Devices not Windows CE devices.
  • As I mentioned above, the tool does not support 64 bit environments. Thanks, -Luis.

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/17/hello-mobile/

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    Is there already a new Version of this tool supporting Windows mobile 6 ? thanks, Chris

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2008
    DOES NOT WORK ON WM6. Gets stuck at querying device. Could a Microsoft person please fix this, thank yoooooooou.

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2008
    Is it possible to build a tool with using the VS2K8 functions that you speak of and just release that? Man o' man. Or better yet, lets just export all of our daily MS headaches to our phones. What fun!

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2008
    A LOT of people can't seem to get past the 'Querying the device' msg including  myself. Could our phones be 'locked' somehow by our providers to prevent SCM from working ? (WM6 and XP SP2)

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2009
    Getting a "Security Configuration Manager has encountered a problem" error message after installing the software.  Using a newly built laptop with Windows XP (SP2) 32-bit version.

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2009
    I'm using WM6 and I manage to connect to the Security Configuration Manager once. But after that I changed the configuration to "locked" and I'm not able to go pass the "querying device configuration" stage anymore. Is there a way to undo that lock, which I believe could be the problem?

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2009
    I also am getting the 'program has stopped working" error upon running the SCM app, and have never been able to open the program after downloading and installing from the MS website.  Is the file corrupt?  I tried it on Vista 64 and XP...nothing worked.  Anyone know how to fix this??

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2009
    "program has stopped working" this error the error i am getting every time ,whenever i use Windows Mobile device center or any utils came with VS200 to connect with device or emulator . I am using vista Businees + SP2 , VS2008 + SP1 and WMDC latest version. Before vista SP2 and VS2008 SP1 it was working fine.... But not Now....!