Chapter 4. Lenovo Mobility Manager - Lenovo ThinkPad Deployment Manual

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Chapter 4. Lenovo Mobility Manager

Lenovo has a mobility management plug-in that enables you to:

• Discover devices, without an agent at the point of data access, through Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

systems

• 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 leaves

your organization

• Improve business processes for reclaiming corporate IT assets and proprietary information as in the

case of employee termination

The Lenovo Mobility Manager requires the user to log in to the configuration server using a PIN, which the

user retrieves by logging in to a PIN server from a PC. The user authenticates to the PIN server using

corporate credentials, and supplies that PIN when logging on to the Lenovo Mobility Manager configuration

server from his ThinkPad Tablet. After connecting to the configuration server, the IT-provided configuration

information 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 an

option from within the Microsoft Exchange installation.

• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Internet Information Services (IIS) must be installed and

registered.

When a mobile device logs in to synchronize e-mail, contact, and calendar information, it does so using an

existing Outlook mailbox account. Once the device has logged in, the Exchange server stores identifying

information in its database, including the Device ID, owner, the date/time it logged in, and so on. That

information can then be retrieved from the Exchange server and displayed in the Mobility management tool.

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