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Windows phone connector2/11/2024 ![]() Important: Most of the information provided in this post is verified and tested, but in some cases the connectors, certificates, or tokens were not available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.Please leave a comment when a connector, certificate, or token is missing and should be added. Note: This list of connectors, certificates and tokens is made based on the information available within Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center ( Tenant administration > Connectors and tokens). The following connectors, certificates and tokens are addressed within this post. All summarized in tables, including links to the documentation. This blog post will provide a collection of the different endpoints, the properties to verify and example queries to use. Last week the focus was on providing an example for monitoring the Apple MDM push certificate with Azure Logic Apps and Adaptive Cards for Teams and this week the focus is on providing more endpoints in Microsoft Graph that can be used for monitoring all different connectors, certificates and tokens. To make that happen, Microsoft needs to at least offer feature parity with its sync software for OS X users.This week is a follow-up on last week. Windows Phone isn’t just here to offer an alternative, it’s here to take away market share from Apple. The fact that Microsoft is even providing this option is enough to convince me that it’s serious about being successful here. WiFi syncing, marketplace access - everything. Microsoft needs to, as quickly as it can, bring all of the features of the Zune Sync client on the PC to OS X. You won’t get the full monty, but you’ll have enough to get by. Assuming all goes according to plan, you should be able to have a pretty decent experience as a Mac user with a Windows Phone. Microsoft plans to have OS update support enabled in the Connector by the time that update rolls around. ![]() It’ll bring copy & paste support along with other things. The first major update to Windows Phone 7 will come sometime early next year. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Connector software is good enough to get the job done, but it’s far from a full fledged OS X client. You can’t add/remove email accounts or do any of the things you can do with an iPhone in iTunes. You can view all of the content on your device but you can’t manage any of it (short of erasing it all). You can sync your address book in OS X with Google Contacts and keep your phone synced that way, but you can’t do it over the USB cable. There’s also no support for contact or calendar syncing, that’s done through the cloud. Thankfully it seems like a quick fix and we’ve alerted Microsoft to the problem. There’s no way around it and unfortunately that means any music you buy in the Zune Marketplace can’t be put on your Mac. For some reason the Connector tries to put downloaded music in iPhoto, which will of course throw an error: Music downloaded from the Zune Marketplace will also attempt to sync, but it’ll fail miserably. In my case after a couple of syncs I had a lot of Anand’s Windows Phone albums in iPhoto. The Connector will insert photos taken on the phone into iPhoto, unfortunately it puts them into albums (roughly one per day it seems) all named after your phone. You have to be very deliberate with what you want to put on the device. You can’t tell the Connector software to fill all available storage space on the phone with extra music or photos. Just check the movies, music and photos you want and hit sync and you’re good to go. I was supplied with an alpha of the Connector and despite fairly regular crashes (thankfully not while syncing), I’m happy to say it works. What the Connector is designed to do is get your non-DRM iTunes and iPhoto content from your Mac to your Windows Phone. You don’t get any access to the Zune Marketplace, you can’t download apps, there’s no WiFi syncing support and (today) there’s no system update support. The connector application doesn’t mimic the functionality of the Zune Sync software for the PC. At launch Microsoft will deliver a beta version of OS X sync software called the Windows Phone 7 Connector. Microsoft recognizes that a sizable portion of the market runs OS X, and it doesn’t want to leave them out of the fun. The next stage is depression, and the final stage (if the company survives) is outright competition. The competitor exists but who cares, they make stupid products, our next version will assuage all fears. The competitor doesn’t exist, they have no marketshare, why bother supporting them, etc. Every huge company goes through the same motions when a smaller competitor starts making waves.
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