BES Express a New Free Flavor of Blackberry Server

On March 17, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Mobile Phones, RIM

RIM recently released Blackberry Enterprise Server Express (BESX) which is a new flavor of the popular server software. The great thing about BES Express is that you do not need to purchase any CAL’s (or register them for that matter, like previously done with BPS) and the software itself is also free.


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Remove Duplicate Blackberry Contacts

On February 24, 2010 · 11 Comments · In RIM

Steps to remove duplicate contacts

I had an issue come up yesterday where I needed to reconnect a user’s Blackberry to our BES server. Upon reconnecting, the users contact list was duplicated because I did not clear the users device before reconnecting (nobody’s fault but my own). To clear this issue up I took these [...]

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Windows Mobile 7 Preview

On February 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Microsoft, Mobile Phones

Microsoft is rolling out the details for Windows Mobile 7. For the first time on a Windows Mobile release, I am actually excited to see some competitive moves from the platform that has always seemed to just not get it right. They have gotten away from the clunky start menu style, and integrated a [...]

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Send Error on Desktop…the BlackBerry ‘RED X’

On January 12, 2010 · 2 Comments · In RIM, Technology

The dreaded ‘Red X’. Blackberry Admins know this all to well when a user goes to send an email on their device and get’s a Send error for the Desktop account. It’s now happened on two occasions where I have followed the very well laid out steps from RIM (seen here) for setting [...]

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Droid doesn’t…sync exchange calendars.

On January 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Microsoft, Mobile Phones

For all that the ‘Droid Does’, it sure is missing one key item for business users. The ability to sync with Exchange calendars. Today I had my first chance to test drive the Droid, and the device is very impressive. I was not thrilled at it’s lack of integration with the Active Sync security [...]

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