Windows Mobile Device Center

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Windows Mobile Device Center
Websitewww.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx (Archived)

Windows Mobile Device Center is a

web browser favorites, and other files between Windows Mobile devices and the Microsoft Windows
operating system.

History

Windows Mobile Device Center was written as a successor to the

beta version meant for use with Windows Vista RC1.[1] In February 2007, the first official release was made available for download,[2] and in June 2007, Windows Mobile Device Center was updated to work with the Windows Mobile 6 operating system.[3] With the release of Windows Mobile Device Center, Pocket PC 2000 and Pocket PC 2002 operating systems were effectively phased out of full native support with Windows Vista.[4]
However, basic connectivity became available for these devices with the 6.1 version release.

Other versions of Windows, such as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can also be WMDC enabled.[5]

Features

While Windows Vista has a base driver built-in to interface with Windows Mobile devices in

front-end
for users to integrate their data in multiple Windows applications.

The base driver in Windows Vista allows browsing the device, copying files and syncing with Windows Media Player. For complete functionality including synchronization of tasks, calendar data, contacts, email etc. with

Outlook 2010
x64 and any version of Outlook prior to Outlook 2003 is not supported. Whenever a Windows Mobile device is connected, the Mobile Device Center pane pops up giving options to manage media and other files on the device, as well as control their settings.

Ways to interface Windows Mobile devices with Windows Mobile Device Center include Bluetooth, USB, and for legacy purposes, Serial. However, synchronizing via the serial port is not activated by default, and it is required that the user alters the Windows Registry to do so.[8]

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 came with Remote Tools, that could be used to edit the registry of a tethered mobile device, and view the running processes. These Remote Tools utilised the ActiveSync Service, part of Windows Mobile Device Center

Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 had the ability to synchronize the following:

Major version releases

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sampat, Mel. WMDC for Vista RC1 (and higher) is now available for public download. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
  2. ^ a b White, Nick. (2007-02-01). "Windows Mobile Device Center RTMs!". Microsoft Windows Vista Team Blog. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  3. ^ Sampat, Mel. Windows Mobile Device Center v6.1 Released!. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
  4. ^ Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 for Windows Vista. Microsoft. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
  5. ^ "Enable ActiveSync & Windows Mobile Device Center Synchronization on Windows Server 2008 x64". 11 September 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
  6. ^ Sampat, Mel. Windows Mobile Device Center missing in Vista RC1?. MSDN Blogs. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
  7. ^ "Windows Vista Mobile Device Center Step by Step Guide". TechNet. Microsoft. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  8. ^ Windows Mobile Device Center Troubleshooting Guide. Microsoft. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
  9. ^ "Key Updates listed by Microsoft for version 6.1". Microsoft Download Center. Archived from the original on 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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