Posted on November 5, 2010, at 10:02 AM .
Today, RIM announced the global availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Lotus Domino. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is free software that wirelessly synchronizes BlackBerrys with email, calendar, contacts, notes, tasks and more. The BES Express solution is ideal for organizations that do not want to spend money on extra BES licenses but want more employees to get the productivity of a BES setup.
With BES Express connected to IBM Lotus Domino, BlackBerry users will be able to:
- Wirelessly synchronize email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks
- Manage email folders and search email on the mail server from their smartphones
- Book meetings and appointments, accept meeting requests, check availability and forward calendar attachments
- Set an out-of-office reply
- Access files stored on the company network
- Use mobile applications to access business systems behind the firewall
More information available in the press release.
Posted on November 1, 2010, at 1:05 PM .
We’re a little late on this update but a few days ago Google updated the Google Apps Connector for BES and it now supports BES Express (the free version of BES). It would be interesting to see how many organizations downloaded BES Express, and just how many unsupported people are now on BES with the new service. The new version of Google Apps Connector features the following changes:
- Support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.2.
- Support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.
- Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2.
- Improved Dynamic GAL synchronization.
- Improvements to some calendar synchronization components to provide enhanced robustness and accuracy.
Read more from Google’s blog.
Posted on September 30, 2010, at 3:32 PM .
Baseline Data Systems has announced the release of Office Accelerator Wireless BlackBerry sync service. As an alternative to Google Sync, Office Accelerator’s content relationship management software offers more functionality when syncing to the desktop and outlook with the BlackBerry.
Office Accelerator solves the limitations of Google Sync by allowing for unlimited contacts and calendar events to sync. In addition to deeper sync limits, Office Accelerator also offers free phone support from trained technical pros. The Office Accelerator software ships with a full client contact manager that allows users to network their PCs without the need for an Exchange server or BES. Office Accelerator requires no cables and syncing can be done over the air wherever you have network access. Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook 2010 also come built-in.
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Posted on August 19, 2010, at 4:39 PM .
The Indian government’s telecom department has suggested a workaround for accessing encrypted BlackBerry emails. The workaround involves getting unencrypted copies of emails from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server sent to an internet service provider’s monitoring system. Security agencies will be able to work with the ISP’s to obtain any information they desire from these corporate emails.
While BlackBerry corporate email is fully encrypted on a BES when moving between BlackBerrys, it remains unencrypted while it resides on the BES. “Feeding the email from the enterprise server to the ISP’s monitoring systems can, accordingly, help security agencies access the communication in pure text form,” DoT proposal said.
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Posted on August 12, 2010, at 12:30 PM .
The free version of BES, BES Express, has been recently updated to version 5.0.2. BES Express allows businesses to wirelessly connect a BlackBerry to the corporate network, without having to pay for additional BES licenses. BES Express uses the same security architecture and includes a subset of the over 500 IT policies and features available with the full BlackBerry Enterprise Server software.
BES Express can be installed on the same server as Microsoft Exchange or Windows Small Business Server to connect up to 75 BlackBerrys, or on a separate server to support up to 2000 devices per server, and currently supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2007 and 2003, and Windows Small Business Server 2008 and 2003. BES Express can be connected to BlackBerrys on either business or most personal BlackBerry data plans.
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Posted on July 7, 2010, at 11:38 AM .
BES admins can now download the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack 2 and take advantage of some cool new features such as additional metrics, reports and notifications to help monitor the system health as well as user self-service tools and pre-population of messages of up to 3000. Recently, we saw the leaked feature set, which was a pretty clear indication that SP2 was on the way.
BES 5.02 features single sign-on (SSO), initial support for separating business vs. personal content on the BlackBerry, new security self-service options for BlackBerry smartphone users, all new support for Microsoft Hyper-V for server virtualization, and much more.
Remember when we said RIM soft announced features to deal with corporate liable vs employee liable devices? Well it looks like this update is what they were talking about. Remote removal of corporate data from employee-owned devices is a new function built into BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.2 that is expected to be supported with an upcoming versions of the BlackBerry OS, allowing IT administrators to remove only corporate data from an employee-owned BlackBerry without affecting the employee’s personal information and applications. Additional features for keeping corporate content separate from personal content on employee-owned devices are expected later this year.
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