(Click here for a larger view of Enterprise Mobile's Windows Mobile IP Utility)

Enterprise Mobile's Windows Mobile IP Utility runs on any Windows Mobile device, and is able to view or renew IP configurations for all network interfaces on that device (below left). It allows pinging any destination host name or IP address (below middle) and also tracing the number of "hops" packets must take to reach that address (below right).


The Windows Mobile IP Utility has IP status, ping, and traceroute functionality
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Usefully, the Windows Mobile IP Utility also has a "speed test" routine that allows checking the speed of a device's connection to the internet. It logs test results from any of its modules to a text file for archiving or sharing with others, according to the company.


Enterprise Mobile's CAB Signing Utility
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The company's CAB Signing Utility is more of a one-trick pony, but provides a graphical user interface that obviates use of Microsoft's tricky, command-line-only Cabsigntool.exe, says Enterprise Mobile. Shown above, the utility reads information from digital certificates, then uses it to sign a .CAB file and all related .EXE and .DLL files. (Depending on what security settings have been applied to them, Windows Mobile devices will often refuse to execute unsigned applications.)

Further information

Enterprise Mobile's Windows Mobile IP Utility runs on Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 6.0, and Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. Windows Mobile 5.0 devices will need to have .NET Compact Framework 2.0 installed if it is not already present. Meanwhile, the CAB Signing Utility runs on any Windows XP or Windows Vista desktop computer.

To download the Windows Mobile IP Utility or CAB Signing Utility, visit the Enterprise Mobile website, here and here. An e-mail address is required to download, but the applications are otherwise free.

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