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BlackBerry Professional Software, which is the successor to BlackBerry Small Business Server, is what I use here as I also have limited users. The software is free, and comes with one license, or you can buy it outright with five licenses + the free one, for $499. It's the same price either way since you'll have to buy $99 licenses for each user. I hate BlackBerry for this reason. The problem is that BPS is deprecated and scheduled for obsolescence in July I think. It does not and will not support Exchange 2010. For that you need a $2700 Trade-Up key to move to full BES, which is completely ridiculous. Email me if you want part numbers. Jon Galbreath MCSE/Security+ Systems Administrator International Studies and Programs Ph: 517-884-2144 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Aldrich, Dak [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 ------------------------------ -dak aldrich -network admin -college of music, msu [log in to unmask] -517.432.5045 -http://comit.music.msu.edu