Using a blackberry to access Exchange 2000 email folders...   

One of our sales people wants to be able to access his company Exchange 2000 
email folders such as Inbox, Sent items, Calendar and Tasks from his 
blackberry device when he is on the road.

We are already foprwarding all emails he receives here to his blackberry but 
he insists he needs to view tasks and his calendar as well.... No problems I 
say, I will look into it...

It appears that if at all possible, I will have to download and install the 
Blackberry Enterprise Server software in order to accomplish this type of 
thing. We do NOT want to have the data removed from the Exchange server (the 
way POP email works). Also I have heard that this server software is free or 
at least comes with one or more free license seats...

Can anyone tell me if this is possible to do and if so, what exactly I need 
to do to set this up for the user?

Thanks, Brad

date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:27:39 -0500   author:   Brad Pears

Re: Using a blackberry to access Exchange 2000 email folders...   

Brad Pears wrote:
> One of our sales people wants to be able to access his company
> Exchange 2000 email folders such as Inbox, Sent items, Calendar and
> Tasks from his blackberry device when he is on the road.
>
> We are already foprwarding all emails he receives here to his
> blackberry but he insists he needs to view tasks and his calendar as
> well.... No problems I say,

That's always a bad way to start a sentence about this sort of thing! :-)

>  I will look into it...
>
> It appears that if at all possible, I will have to download and
> install the Blackberry Enterprise Server software in order to
> accomplish this type of thing. We do NOT want to have the data
> removed from the Exchange server (the way POP email works). Also I
> have heard that this server software is free or at least comes with
> one or more free license seats...
> Can anyone tell me if this is possible to do and if so, what exactly
> I need to do to set this up for the user?
>
> Thanks, Brad

Even the Blackbery Enterprise Server won't sync all his sent items, so I'm 
not sure what exactly he'd get from it there. But BES would sync his 
calendar/contacts/tasks and give him wireless mail. I believe you're correct 
about the one free license, but you should confirm with Blackberry on that. 
Note also that it is not recommended to install/run BES on your Exchange 
server - it's best to have that either on a separate server, or even a 
virtual server running W2k/2k3 if you can't justify having more hardware for 
one user. BES is great. But if you can't justify it, there's the icky 
desktop redirector ....it won't do anything for his calendar/contacts, etc., 
but it will give him some semblance of wireless push mail. I personally 
don't like using the "forward to blackberry" technique, myself.

date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:49:47 -0500   author:   Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Re: Using a blackberry to access Exchange 2000 email folders...   

Thanks for your reponse.. and yes I know I should always start every user 
request with "I don't know if it can be done - but I'll look into it for 
you". That way when you get it working, you are the hero isntead of the 
goat!!

Ok, well I have BES installed on our SBS 2000 server right now and it seems 
to be running fine so far. I like the virtualization idea and in fact have 
been looking into virtualization anyway. What's the best free virtualization 
software available these days? VMWare perhaps?  I am just worried about the 
performance hit by installing VMWare. I haven't really heard great things 
about it when it comes to performance...

Anyway, I found out that you get one free license and one free support call 
witht eh BES download. Add'l licences are $99 each which we will charge to 
the sales person if they want it...

Yes, he won't need to synch sent items anyway. I shouldn't have included 
that... just force of habit I guess...


Thanks, Brad

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" 
 wrote in message 
news:%23Dpr6utLIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Brad Pears wrote:
>> One of our sales people wants to be able to access his company
>> Exchange 2000 email folders such as Inbox, Sent items, Calendar and
>> Tasks from his blackberry device when he is on the road.
>>
>> We are already foprwarding all emails he receives here to his
>> blackberry but he insists he needs to view tasks and his calendar as
>> well.... No problems I say,
>
> That's always a bad way to start a sentence about this sort of thing! :-)
>
>>  I will look into it...
>>
>> It appears that if at all possible, I will have to download and
>> install the Blackberry Enterprise Server software in order to
>> accomplish this type of thing. We do NOT want to have the data
>> removed from the Exchange server (the way POP email works). Also I
>> have heard that this server software is free or at least comes with
>> one or more free license seats...
>> Can anyone tell me if this is possible to do and if so, what exactly
>> I need to do to set this up for the user?
>>
>> Thanks, Brad
>
> Even the Blackbery Enterprise Server won't sync all his sent items, so I'm 
> not sure what exactly he'd get from it there. But BES would sync his 
> calendar/contacts/tasks and give him wireless mail. I believe you're 
> correct about the one free license, but you should confirm with Blackberry 
> on that. Note also that it is not recommended to install/run BES on your 
> Exchange server - it's best to have that either on a separate server, or 
> even a virtual server running W2k/2k3 if you can't justify having more 
> hardware for one user. BES is great. But if you can't justify it, there's 
> the icky desktop redirector ....it won't do anything for his 
> calendar/contacts, etc., but it will give him some semblance of wireless 
> push mail. I personally don't like using the "forward to blackberry" 
> technique, myself.
>
>

date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:07:16 -0500   author:   Brad Pears

Re: Using a blackberry to access Exchange 2000 email folders...   

Brad Pears  wrote:
> Thanks for your reponse.. and yes I know I should always start every
> user request with "I don't know if it can be done - but I'll look
> into it for you". That way when you get it working, you are the hero
> isntead of the goat!!

Exactly!
>
> Ok, well I have BES installed on our SBS 2000 server right now and it
> seems to be running fine so far.

Good to hear.

> I like the virtualization idea and
> in fact have been looking into virtualization anyway. What's the best
> free virtualization software available these days? VMWare perhaps?

Yes, I like that best.

> I
> am just worried about the performance hit by installing VMWare. I
> haven't really heard great things about it when it comes to
> performance...

I'm not a virtual server guru but I think it'd be fine....presuming you've 
got as much RAM as you can use, and so forth.
>
> Anyway, I found out that you get one free license and one free
> support call witht eh BES download. Add'l licences are $99 each which
> we will charge to the sales person if they want it...
>
> Yes, he won't need to synch sent items anyway. I shouldn't have
> included that... just force of habit I guess...

No prob.
>
>
> Thanks, Brad
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
>  wrote in
> message news:%23Dpr6utLIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Brad Pears wrote:
>>> One of our sales people wants to be able to access his company
>>> Exchange 2000 email folders such as Inbox, Sent items, Calendar and
>>> Tasks from his blackberry device when he is on the road.
>>>
>>> We are already foprwarding all emails he receives here to his
>>> blackberry but he insists he needs to view tasks and his calendar as
>>> well.... No problems I say,
>>
>> That's always a bad way to start a sentence about this sort of
>> thing! :-)
>>>  I will look into it...
>>>
>>> It appears that if at all possible, I will have to download and
>>> install the Blackberry Enterprise Server software in order to
>>> accomplish this type of thing. We do NOT want to have the data
>>> removed from the Exchange server (the way POP email works). Also I
>>> have heard that this server software is free or at least comes with
>>> one or more free license seats...
>>> Can anyone tell me if this is possible to do and if so, what exactly
>>> I need to do to set this up for the user?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Brad
>>
>> Even the Blackbery Enterprise Server won't sync all his sent items,
>> so I'm not sure what exactly he'd get from it there. But BES would
>> sync his calendar/contacts/tasks and give him wireless mail. I
>> believe you're correct about the one free license, but you should
>> confirm with Blackberry on that. Note also that it is not
>> recommended to install/run BES on your Exchange server - it's best
>> to have that either on a separate server, or even a virtual server
>> running W2k/2k3 if you can't justify having more hardware for one
>> user. BES is great. But if you can't justify it, there's the icky
>> desktop redirector ....it won't do anything for his
>> calendar/contacts, etc., but it will give him some semblance of
>> wireless push mail. I personally don't like using the "forward to
>> blackberry" technique, myself.

date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:38:18 -0500   author:   Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]