One other thing to take a look at is a product called NotifySync. NotifySync is a 3rd party app that provides ActiveSync integration on the Blackberry.
We have a variety of smartphone to support and just a handful of Blackberries so this has worked well for us. It's not perfect because it's a 3rd party app sitting on top of the OS but they've done a pretty good job with it. The good news is it also supports pushing password policies, timeouts and users can issue a device wipe from Outlook Web Access. They have a trial version so it's free to take a look; $100 per license.
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David Vietti
Systems Administration Manager
Michigan State University
Physical Plant Division
Room 1 Physical Plant
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517)432-0240 Office
(517)353-5001 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aldrich, Dak [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:55 AM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] BES inquiry...
Ok. So... I'm new to this trend called a BlackBerry. (It will NEVER replace the iPhone, but for work, I just couldn't justify a second iPhone to keep work and personal phones separate...)
In every way it is great for what I need, except for the main reason I got it.. It's email functionality is SO far under the bar, it's almost unusable without the BES.
As I have a few BB users here, I'm going to be getting the BES, which i understand will solve all of my email woes... However, I haven't had a chance to read up much on it. I was wondering about others using it out there... do you run it on it's own dedicated server? or
do you run it right on the exchange server? I will have no more than 5 users using it.
Is there any advice that you all might have on it, regarding the setup or general maintenance, that might be useful to a newbie?
Thanks!
-dak
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-dak aldrich
-network admin
-college of music, msu
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