Create a Developer Installation of MDM Self Service Portal

2/9/2009

To create a developer installation of MDM Self Service Portal, follow the steps in the following topic in the MDM Self Service Portal Deployment Guide: Install MDM Self Service Portal.

By default, as the portal installation is complete, MDM Setup installs the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 project file, SelfServicePortal.csproj, in the root folder of the Web site. Copy this .csproj file together with the other Web site files to a development environment, and then open the file in Visual Studio. Or, you can open the .csproj file from its original location.

As soon as you adjust the portal, you must build a new version of the portal assembly, Microsoft.Mobile.ManagementServices.SelfServicePortal.dll. You can build the assembly by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, or you can open a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 console and build the assembly by using a command-line option.

If you copied the file to a development environment, copy the new version of Microsoft.Mobile.ManagementServices.SelfServicePortal.dll to the production environment folder and replace the original assembly file.

The compiled assembly file, Microsoft.Mobile.ManagementServices.SelfServicePortal.dll, replaces the original .dll in the \Bin folder. To specify a different location, provide a folder location in the <OutputPath> tag in the .csproj file.

To run the portal application, you must have access to an installation of Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 Service Pack 1. You can install the evaluation version or the MSDN version to support development of a customized portal. To download an evaluation version of MDM 2008 SP1, see the Microsoft Web site: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107346.