Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Manually Creating a MobileConfig file including certificates
I've spent a long time trying to automate the creation of MobileConfig files (They are the configuration files for Apple Devices (iPod, iPad and iPhones). The format is relatively simple (i.e. XML) but I have always been stuck when trying to include a personal certificate in the file. Now I am no longer stuck!
I found out that all you need is the certificate as a .PFX file, and then use CERTUTIL with the following syntax
certutil -encode alginald.pfx alginald.enc
then you need to remove the first and last lines of the file (the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE) and then add it to the mobileconfig file. Yippee...
I'm using powershell to script the creation, so a couple more pointers..
To strip the first and last lines..
$content=gc alginald.enc
$newcontent=$content[1..($content.length-2)]
I also use the add-content command to add to the end of a file, but it also needs the UTF8 encoding part.. i.e.
add-content alginald.mobileconfig -value $newcontent -encoding UTF8
Hope this helps...
Labels: certificate, iPhone, mobileconfig, nsdata
Thursday, February 04, 2010
iPhone PDF attachment missing
Well, this is a strange one. iPhone syncing with Exchange 2003 via Push Mail. Sharepoint (or MOSS or WSS or....) sends mail with PDF attachment. In Outlook, everything OK. On iPhone, cannot see the attachment. Mail sent to a different user, also with iPhone and Push Mail. PDF is in the mail, and can be opened on the iPhone.
Solution: Use ADSIEDIT, navigate to the mailbox where it is not working, and change the attribute mapirecipient from TRUE to FALSE, or just remove the value.
Unbelievable, but true...
(Looks like the attribute has been left there from the good old 5.5 days... new mailboxes do not get this attribute set)
Well, this is a strange one. iPhone syncing with Exchange 2003 via Push Mail. Sharepoint (or MOSS or WSS or....) sends mail with PDF attachment. In Outlook, everything OK. On iPhone, cannot see the attachment. Mail sent to a different user, also with iPhone and Push Mail. PDF is in the mail, and can be opened on the iPhone.
Solution: Use ADSIEDIT, navigate to the mailbox where it is not working, and change the attribute mapirecipient from TRUE to FALSE, or just remove the value.
Unbelievable, but true...
(Looks like the attribute has been left there from the good old 5.5 days... new mailboxes do not get this attribute set)
Labels: attachments, iPhone, mapirecipient, MOSS, PDF, Sharepoint
