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BlackBerry is a line of mobile phones and tablets offered by Research In Motion. BlackBerry devices typically have the capability to be remotely managed by enterprise system administrators as well as features which integrate them into enterprise services such as email and calendaring.

BlackBerry is a line of mobile phones and tablets offered by Research In Motion. BlackBerry devices typically have the capability to be remotely managed by enterprise system administrators as well as features which integrate them into enterprise services such as email and calendaring.

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Blackberry mail service basics?

Can someone explain very briefly the way Blackberry's email functions. I'm not looking for nuts and bolts, just answers to some very basic questions: Does a Blackberry check with an Exchange server directly, or does it always/ever use an…
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Dovecot IMAP indexes are getting locked by Blackberry devices

This is an odd issue that I tend to see with Blackberry devices connecting via IMAP on some of my Sendmail+Dovecot mail deployments. For users of those devices, the Dovecot indexes tend to get locked. This prevents mail flow to the Blackberry device…
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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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Blackberry Outage: How can I PIN a large number of users?

We lost power due to the hurricane and need to notify BES users that services will be restored soon. How can I extract all BES users and send them a notification message? Also how do I alter the from address that is sent?
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Blackberry & SPF

Some users on my domain use a Blackberry for email. Should Blackberry's servers be included somehow in my SPF record? Thank you much for any advice.
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Smartphone email safety

My boss is confident that Blackberry phones are safe for company use (having it connect to the email server, etc.). He is less confident about iPhones. Regarding connecting to a corporate email server where security is a huge priority, is there…
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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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How exactly does e-mail push work in non-blackberry phones?

I've been a blackberry user for the past 6 years. I've convinced myself to make the switch to an Android device. I have already started some Android development so having an actual android device would be a bonus. My question: How exactly does…
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Jabber/XMPP Client for BlackBerry

I am looking for a Jabber/XMPP client for BlackBerry that I can use with our OpenFire server. It needs to be able to use the Secure connection from OpenFire either the SSL or TLS. It needs to be a direct connection to our server, no 3rd party sever…
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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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Exchange Encryped Email with PGP

My organization is currently looking into encrypting our emails internally as well as the occasional message to come outside recipients. The requirements are currently a bit overwhelming and I am not sure where to begin. We run a somewhat mixed…
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