This application from Mo¬torola provides complete synchronizatIOn of your Ex¬change folders with a PDA.
It also provides you a lot of cus¬tomization options for viewing content. The application integrates with your PDA and works as if it were part of the embedded as.
The 'Good' screen gives you a very user friendly interface and provides you with easy navigation for Good and non¬Good Mobile Messaging services. con¬tacts and notifications.
You can also get RSS feeds right in your mobile device to keep yourself up¬dated.
GMM provides you the option of choosing feeds within the existing RSS feeds or you can add the URL if the RSS feed is not available on the list.
One GMM server is capable of han¬dling approx 1000 users. And it re-
quires Exchange 2007 at the backend.

Security is taken care of by FIPS cer¬tified 192-bit AES encryption for the data which is being transferred over the air and also for data which is stored on the mobile device.

ow you might be wondering that as Exchange 2007 can do all the above mentioned functions so how is this solu¬tion different?

Well! The answer lies in the kind of control it provides to the administrator over the PDA. in addition to providing synchronized messaging with the PDA.
With GMM you can create policies for mobile devices (handsets) and allo¬cate it to users. For example. let's say you don't want your R&D team to use their phone's camera and snap pictures of your valuable IP.

Or let's say you don't want your em¬ployees to send out or copy data using Bl uetooth, then you ca n create restricted policies for them by disabling the appropriate functionalities in the devices. You can create such a policy for a single user or you can apply such poli¬cies to a group of users depending upon the requirement.

ot only that, but in case your de¬vice gets stolen, you can even remotely delete all the data from the device. All you need is a Net connection with the device,
This makes sure no one can access sensitive data that you have on your mo¬bile device.

Installing it
Installing this solution on your en¬terprise network along with the de¬ployed MS Exchange solution is pretty simple. You don't need to alter your ex¬isting network architecture, GMM also makes the manageability easy for administrators; you can install, manage and upgrade the mobile device within the console .

These mean that the system admin¬istrator doesn't have to go to each per¬son to ask for the mobile device to troubleshoot, he can do this just by sit¬ting remotely on his desk.

You can view information such as hardware/software type and version and radio connectivity of the handheld device from the same console.
First you need to install GMM server which manages your users and the handheld mobile devices associated with that user. ext you have to install the GMM console which provides you the front end for the GMM server.

The GMM console can even be in¬stalled on any other machine where GMM server is not running, only the console system should have access to the GMM server.
Another optional component that can be installed is the Good Mobile In¬tranet Server. It provides wireless access to the back-end server.

For evaluating this product we first created a domain on a machine with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and then de¬ployed Exchange 2007.
Then we created a public folder on Exchange 2007; this is required to en¬able Good Messaging Calendar's free/busy scheduling service. Without this the GMM server would refuse to get installed.

We then installed GMM on another machine. We created a user name GoodAdmin in the ADS and then cre¬ated a mailbox for the associated user. For the GoodAdmin user we granted the required rights or permissions. such as reading metadata properties, creating named properties in the information store, creating rights for receiving and sending, etc.

Once again we created a new user in the ADS, 'user1' (say) and associated mail box in Exchange 2007. Then we opened the GMM console and added the 'userl' to it.

As soon as the user is added a mail is sent across to the user, whom we have added to the GMM. The email had the necessary information that is required to install GMM client on the PDA or smart phone of the user.

Information such as where to down¬load the GMM client from, PIN number for mobile devices with a QWERTY key¬board and a simple numeric keypad; and the procedure for installation.

Action' Once the user gets mail, he can open the URL mentioned in the mail (from where to download the client) in the browser of his PDA or smart phone. Then he can click on the 'Download button' to download the client on to the PDA.
Then the software asks you where to download the client from. One can choose the location in his phone. But it is better to save in the storage card (if you have) so that you won't run out of the internal memory of your PDA.

Thisclientrequiresaround 13MBof free space in the PDA's main storage to get installed. This is a slight drawback beca use 13 MB is a pretty huge space for a phone's primary storage.

During the installation it asks you to enter the email ID and pin number that you have received in your inbox from GoodAdmin Also it asks you to enter your mobile number.

Once the installation is complete, GMM client downloads the services that are available to you from the GMM server and then restarts your mobile device.
Now your mobile device is com¬pletely ready to work; if it has not started automatically, please restart the GMM service manually on your mobile device.
As soon as the service gets started. your mobile device synchronizes with MS Exchange for maiL calendar entries, tasks and policies. For checking its administrative ca¬pability we went to the GMM console and opened the management window of the 'user1'.

Then in policy settings we selected 'custom policy' and then clicked on the edit policy button. We went to 'Options' tab and disabled Bluetooth, again we went to the application tab and disabled Windows media player and camera.
As soon as these policies were ap¬plied to the user. the mobile device au¬tomatically restarted. When the mobile device booted it displayed the message showing that your Bluetooth, media player and cam¬era are disabled.