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Short for Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Short for Blackberry Enterprise Server.

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BES - BlackBerry exception to policy Disable Third Party Software Downloads

We are running BES 5.0, with a Salesforce Mobile application push.This works fine. We do not want the users to download and install 3rd Party applications, so we have disable this by creating a BES policy (disable Third Party Software Downloads).…
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How to sync (or at least view) public / team / shared calendar to Blackberry using BES?

Trying to allow 3 people to view and ideally sync (create/edit) common (team) calendar events via Blackberry and hosted Exchange 2007 BES. My understanding is that BES does not support anything other than a users primary calendar to be synced…
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Blackberry Enterprise server questions

Hopefully this belongs here instead of serverfault... I've been asked to evaluate smartphones and smartphone management software, including the blackberry (which is likely the winner of the evaluation even before the evaluation gets started). The…
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What are people's experiences with Blackberry Enterprise Server?

We are considering rolling it out, but we've read of some bad experiences. Do people consider that overall it has made a positive contribution to their organisation? Are there any gotchas we should look out for? Are there some best-practises we…
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Rename Blackberry Enterprise Server

I've got a server running BES 5 that I'd like to rename. Does anyone have any docs on how to do this? I haven't found anything on RIMs site or when searching. UPDATE: In my case the SQL databases are on another server which is a dedicated SQL…
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BES and BES Express co-existance

Question: Can I deploy BES and BES Express with Exchange 2010? Any tips for doing this if possible? Background: We have a lot of users with personal BlackBerry's and we would like to allow them to start using their devices for receviing corporate…
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Renaming administrator name in Windows Server 2003

I know some folks out there recommend not to rename the built-in administrator in Windows Server 2003. Instead, create another admin account with the same privileges and disable the built-in administrator account. But what if the situation is that…
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What exactly does the "Proxy TLS" option do on Blackberry handhelds and how does it affect data traffic from the mobile device to BES?

Blackberry OS 7.0 | BES 5.x | AT&T Can someone please explain what the "Proxy TLS" option does (under blackberry device menus Options >> Security >> Advanced Security Settings >> TLS >> Proxy TLS) I want to understand the end-to-end impact of having…
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What policies are recommended for keeping Blackberry devices secured?

We manage our Blackberry devices from the BlackBerry Manager (with a "BlackBerry Professional Software" license), but I'm sure it's somewhat similar to the enterprise edition/solution. What steps should we take for securing (via server policies)…
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Blackberry Network Status?

Does anyone know of an easy way to determine the status of the BlackBerry network, outside of observing that your BlackBerry isn't working anymore or receiving email alerts from RIM? Some of our users were affected by an outage on Sunday, and we'd…
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Hidden Location Discovery On Blackberry

Stakeholders have asked us as an IT department for solutions to track employee's locations without said employee's being able to disable this service or even know about this service is running on issued Blackberrys. Any solutions to this? Are…
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How does the Blackberry Manager know that a downgrade is required when pushing 3rd Party App?

I am trying to push out an app from the BES to Blackberry Device. I know everything works fine because it has worked previously. I now have an older version of the application and I have created a Software Configuration for it (I have removed the…
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Can I delete an application remotely using a Blackberry Enterprise Server?

A client has rolled out a beta version of an application to a number of Blackberries manually and now wants to delete it ahead of rolling out the new version. Is it possible to do this remotely using the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server)? I'm…
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BES 5.x issues when connecting to Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4

Ever since we updated from SP1 RU4 to SP2 RU4 we have noticed that our BES devices will simply stop receiving email. This has occurred at least 5 times in the past few weeks. Today, while speaking with RIM support (a T3 contract), they said that…
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The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded

The installation is a Windows 2008 R2 server with an Exchange 2010. I am trying to install BESX on it, for which a user account is needed to login on the domain controller and run the installer. I keep getting: The User Profile Service failed the…
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