Originally posted by: hiromizu
Originally posted by: BZeto
Do you NEED BlackBerry Enterprise Server for it to work? From what I can tell that looks to be the case. Which is odd since I can get Windows Mobile 5/6 phones to sync fine, and blackberry's are known to be fully corporate compadible.
Btw, I dont want to use any ghetto software on a client machine to do the exchange pushing.
Yes, you need Blackberry Enterprise Server in order for it to work. It has some idiosyncrasies you have to watch out for. It is also an SQL application but can run on MSDE as well - but better on full SQL.
Currently the free version is called BES Professional and allows up to 30 users per BES server at $99 for each user CAL.
It is highly recommended that you run BES on a dedicated Windows 2003 member server that does not have Outlook installed as it installs its own MAPI client to connect to Exchange. Do not install it on your Exchange server and do not install it on a domain controller.
You'll need to create a plain domain user called Besadmin and give it the "send as" permission at the root of the domain - failure at this step will result in major fucking earthquake elephant headaches.
Good luck.