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Mobile Computers and Remote Management

Mobile computers are computers that are meant to be mobile. Just like desktop computers, mobile computers (including laptops, notebook computers, tablet PCs, and Ultra-Mobile computers) can come in various sizes and configurations. Mobile computers have an inherent set of challenges as they are not always connected to the Internet or corporate offices where they can be managed and they are designed to be portable, to conserve power for a longer battery life, and to run cooler, which usually affect performance.

A mobile device is a computing device that has been optimized for specific mobile computing tasks. Mobile device types include the following:

• PDAs
• Windows Mobile devices
• Portable media players
• Mobile phones

Mobile devices offer their own challenges because they are often configured to synchronize with a desktop or mobile computer to obtain data.

While you are using mobile computers as well as desktops, you might have a need to remotely connect to and control another computer or server.

Windows 7 offers several tools that enable you to do that, including Remote Desktop, Remote Assistant, and PowerShell.