Pretty much all vendors will offer Free BES deals if you buy X number of devices. You could always just look at BES Professional for free, just need some CAL's - sorry if someone else already mentioned this earlier in the thread.
- John Barsodi From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:17 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Setting up blackberries to connect to Exchange I managed to snag a free 20 license BES from Telus here in Winnipeg....good deal I thought. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI, Sprint is giving a BES server license FREE if you purchase 5 or more BB devices. You might want to talk to your Sprint account manger to get your license. Sam From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Setting up blackberries to connect to Exchange Why don't people ask IT FIRST????? We got a call from a user in Amsterdam, 'I just bought a Blackberry'... 'Take it back and get a Smart Phone, we don't support it' was the response. Without a BES there is no point to getting Blackberries, even if they are a good Canadian company ;-) 2008/7/14 Sherry Abercrombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Well done Bob, ditto.... On 7/14/08, Bob Fronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The best way is to install a Blackberry Enterprise Server. However, it sounds like you probably don't have the licenses for that. If you have your Exchange server setup for OWA, you can go to the BIS website of your cell provider and setup an account for each user and then add their email accounts. However, this will not work as well as BES. Calendars will not sync and the email does not sync as well in my experience. http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/internet/email.jsp#tab_tab_email_s etup Really... you need BES to properly manage Blackberries in an enterprise environment. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: King's Kid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Setting up blackberries to connect to Exchange Hi all, My bosses in their infinite wisdom have decided to give our roaming supervisors Blackberry Curve 8330 phones. They have already received them. However, I wasn't notified until today that they are expecting to receive their e-mail using them. I've checked on Sprint's website (useless) and Microsoft's website and could find information about if there's a problem but not how to do an initial set-up. My question is, is there anything I need to do to our Exchange server to allow this? If so, could someone point me to a step by step to do it. Exchange 2k3, fully patched on an SBS 2k3 server sp2 TIA BJ No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke -- Regards, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alsipius.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
