A couple of folks have been asking about MDM and how it fits into the idea of mobile messaging and control when most of us are used to managing such devices from within the Exchange Management Console. Up until now devices have been managed in Exchange Server and thus some people are wondering how Exchange's mobile device management, and MDM's work together.
Ultimately our goal with these separate offerings is about choice. Many other offerings in the device management market give people one option for device control and charge them for that. We saw a better way to give people an option to pay for what they wanted, and allow them to migrate their way into the fast growing world of mobile devices at a pace, and cost, that's right for them. That said; here's how we are thinking about mobile device management and the future and it starts by thinking of e-mail administrators, dealing with mobile devices, as having one of three mobile device needs: Adoption, Control or Management.
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