BESX 5.0.2 MR5 and 5.0.3 are now available for download

#BlackBerry #Exchange #Exchange2010

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 Service Pack 2 Maintenance Release 5 for Microsoft Exchange is now available for download.
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/26099/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange-Maintenance_Release_Notes–1525641-0330115839-001-5.0.2-US.pdf

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 Service Pack 3 for IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange is now available for download.
http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/25750/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange-Release_Notes–1398168-0311101250-001-5.0.3-US.pdf

A Month in #Exchange and #BlackBerry: March 2011: To Read

#Exchange2010

Now rumor control has it that MR5 will be coming REAL soon, and SP3 should be out by the end of March 2011!


Software For BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 for Microsoft Exchange

Version: 5.0 | Service Pack: 2 | Maintenance Release: 4

  • Filename: besx502mr4.zip
  • Filesize: 158 MB
  • Date posted: 28-Feb-11
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Fixed issues: BlackBerry Administration Service

  • If you uninstalled the BlackBerry® MDS Integration Service and then did not restart the BlackBerry Administration Service, the BlackBerry Administration Service did not stop trying to send invalid notifications, which caused log files to grow, performance issues, and administrators could not log in. (DT 993127)
  • In an environment that included a large number of BlackBerry device users and applications, BlackBerry Administration Service reconciled tasks slower than expected. (DT 980881)
  • If the BlackBerry Administration Service generated and queued a large number of tasks and the BlackBerry Administration Service instance that started processing the tasks stopped, the processing took longer than expected until the instance started again. (DT 968146)
  • If the BlackBerry Administration Service had a large number of jobs to process after the 5-minute timeout elapses, the BlackBerry Administration Service might not have processed all of the jobs. (DT 887734)
  • In some circumstances when you issued a “Delete all device data and disable device” command to a user’s BlackBerry device and then the user activated a new device before the device acknowledged the original command, the BlackBerry Administration Service disabled the user’s new device after an hour. (DT 836520)
  • If you uninstall the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service by running the setup application again and deselecting the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service, you cannot delete the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service information from the BlackBerry Configuration Database. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, when you click Delete the instance for the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service on the Components view page, the BlackBerry Administration Service logs you out and does not delete the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service information. (DT 762391)
  • In certain circumstances, the BlackBerry Administration Service interface became unresponsive. The issue has been resolved to improve the stability of the BlackBerry Administration Service. (DT 756636)
  • In certain circumstances, when a reconciliation task failed and other reconciliation tasks were dependent on the failed task, the BlackBerry Administration Service stopped unexpectedly. (DT 734596)
  • In certain circumstances, you could not log in to the BlackBerry Administration Service using Microsoft® Active Directory® authentication. (DT 711491)
  • If you set the Disposition application control policy rule to Required, pushed an application to a device, and then pushed an upgrade of the application to the device, the device could not install the application. The BlackBerry Administration Service displayed the “Device Reported a general failure installing the module” error message. (DT 690469, DT 643197)
  • If you installed a new BlackBerry Administration Service instance and selected an existing BlackBerry Configuration Database during the installation process, and the name of the wireless service provider that was stored in the BlackBerry Configuration Database was long, the BlackBerry Administration Service did not permit you to manage shared drives or BlackBerry® Device Software update bundles. (DT 689474)
  • If BlackBerry Administration Service instances in a pool experienced network connectivity issues, a notification that a task was complete might have been lost. When this issue occured, the task status might have changed to Failure, and the status for subsequent dependent tasks might have changed to Dependency Failure. The BlackBerry Administration Service did not complete subsequent dependent tasks. (DT 681866)
  • When you tried to move a user from one BlackBerry® Enterprise Server to another using the BlackBerry User Administration Service, the BlackBerry User Administration Service returned the error “Unable to move BlackBerry enabled user.” (DT 648855)
  • In certain circumstances, the BlackBerry Administration Service repeatedly writes the following error message to its log file: “Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_BASJobTaskDependencies’. Cannot insert duplicate key in object ‘dbo.BASJobTaskDependencies.” (DT 617678)
  • If you ran more than one BlackBerry Enterprise Server and more than one Microsoft® Exchange Server in a BlackBerry Domain, and you used a different service account for each BlackBerry Enterprise Server with permissions for each service account restricted to its corresponding Microsoft Exchange Server, the BlackBerry Administration Service might not have been able to access a user’s mailbox. (DT 604343)
  • When you exported summary data for a large number of users in the BlackBerry Administration Service, the transaction time limit might have been exceeded, which prevented the action from completing successfully. (DT 508049)
  • The BlackBerry Administration Service could not manage users who have duplicate information in the BlackBerry Configuration Database. (DT 501446)
  • In some circumstances, the Current Carrier field in the BlackBerry Administration Service displayed the local wireless service provider instead of the home wireless service provider. (DT 242867)

Fixed issues: BlackBerry Attachment Service

  • Users could not view Microsoft® Word 2010 documents on their devices if the documents were saved in previous Microsoft Word versions, from Microsoft Word 97 to Microsoft Word 2003. (DT 684041)

Fixed issues: BlackBerry MDS Connection Service

  • If a page set a cookie, the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service did not pass the cookie on to any other pages. (DT 486192)

Fixed issues: BlackBerry Messaging Agent

  • *In a Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment with a lot of activity, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server might take longer than expected to send email messages to the device. (DT 1006793)
    For more information about how to improve BlackBerry Enterprise Server performance, see the Managing the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Performance in a Microsoft Exchange 2010 Environment Technical Note.
  • If a global catalog server stopped responding, MAPI returned the error “0x80040200 (MAPI_E_END_OF_SESSION)” to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. (DT 785495)
  • If your organization used MFCMAPI and a user deleted an email message from Microsoft® Outlook®, the message was not deleted from the device. (DT 731670)
  • If you configured the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to search for email addresses using LDAP, the search results could return the GUID of distribution lists, instead of the display name. (DT 719963)
  • If a user sent an email message from the device and then flagged the email message for follow up in Microsoft Outlook, the email message was duplicated on the device. (DT 604997)

Fixed issues: BlackBerry Monitoring Service

  • When you tried to log into the BlackBerry Monitoring Service after September 4, 2010, it displayed the following error: “The application has encountered a system error. Please report this error to the System Administrator.” (DT 848240)
  • If you install the BlackBerry Monitoring Service on a virtual machine that runs the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows Server® 2008, a memory leak in the appsvc.exe process causes the virtual machine to stop responding. (
    DT 761232)
  • The BlackBerry Monitoring Service increased its usage of computer memory over 72 hours until the computer stops responding. (DT 647219)

Fixed issues: BlackBerry Policy Service

  • If you moved a user account from BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP6 to 5.0 SP2 using the BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter, the BlackBerry Policy Service might not have been able to regenerate encryption keys and the device might not have been able to send or receive data. (DT 681797)

Fixed issues: Logging

  • When you configured a debugging tool such as ADPlus or the Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) to monitor a BlackBerry Enterprise Server process specifically for first chance access violation (AV) exceptions and produced corresponding .dmp files, excessive amounts of .dmp files might have been produced. This might have resulted in performance degradation for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or loss of service due to low hard drive space. (DT 660577)
  • When the BlackBerry Enterprise Server processed SMS text messages that were in Unicode, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server did not include the closing quote in its log file and fields are missing. (DT 587721)

Fixed issues: Security

  • A security vulnerability existed in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. This vulnerability could have allowed a potentially malicious user to cause buffer overflow errors, leading to a DoS condition or possibly arbitrary code execution on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on. Successful exploitation of the issue would have required a potentially malicious user to embed a specially crafted font in a PDF file and then persuade a user to open that PDF file on a device that is associated with a user account on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. For more information, visit http://www.blackberry.com/btsc to read KB24547. (DT786903, DT 786899)

KB Articles

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Email messages are delayed because of a domain name resolution issue     
BlackBerry smartphone users on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server experience email message delivery delays. The following information appears in the BlackBerry Enterprise…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB03304  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
How to enable private contact subfolder synchronization     
Contact subfolder synchronization can be enabled in the BlackBerry Administration Service as follows: 1) In the BlackBerry Administration Service, click Manage users and search for the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19155  |   Published: 2/28/11  |    
 
BlackBerry Synchronization Service stops responding with no response threads     
All BlackBerry® smartphones associated with the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server are unable to synchronize organizer data and the enterprise activation process does…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21525  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
CALHelperWS “COM Exception: Code = 80004003” appears in MailboxAgent logs     
In BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0, the administrator may be seeing the following log lines printed over and over again for a specific user or subset of users:…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19604  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
Test SQL mirroring server connection fails     
In BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2, when testing the SQL mirroring server connection on the Database Mirroring tab of the BlackBerry Configuration Database, it fails.
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23385  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
How to migrate from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in a BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 environment     
When migrating Microsoft® Exchange 2003 or 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010 in a BlackBerry®…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB22601  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
Assign service account permissions for a BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Exchange     
The following permissions can be assigned for the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server service account: 1) Local Administrator rights on the BlackBerry Enterprise…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB02276  |   Published: 2/28/11  |   
 
“Unable to extract plain text message body” logged in MAGT and ALRT logs     
The following information appears in the BlackBerry Messaging Agent (MAGT) and BlackBerry Enterprise Server Alert Tool (ALRT) logs when a new secure message for a user…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB18230  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
“Dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion” error message appears when starting a BlackBerry Enterprise Server service     
When a BlackBerry Enterprise Server service is started, the following error message appears:…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB02004  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
What is the Software Config Status tab     
The Software Config Status tab is a new feature added to BlackBerry Manager in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP5. This new tab allows BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrators to view the status…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB15470  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
Attachment icon does not show in message body     
When receiving a message that contains an attachment, there is no attachment icon within the message body on the BlackBerry smartphone. When selecting the Menu button on the BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20072  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
Monitoring BlackBerry Enterprise Server processes and logs     
This article discusses monitoring tools for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, some processes that can be monitored, and where diagnostic information is logged.
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB02250  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
Second BlackBerry Administration Server node stops about 360MB and will not start using TCP with PING     
After following the steps in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Exchange Administration Guide 5.0 SP2 to correctly configure BlackBerr
y…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25296  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
Calendar items disappear from BlackBerry smartphones after applying SP1 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010     
Calendar items disappear from BlackBerry® smartphones after Service Pack 1 is applied to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This can be…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23949  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
How to enable BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP1 and SP2 to use Microsoft Exchange Web Services     
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP1 to SP2 has the ability to connect to Microsoft Exchange Web Services for calendar functions. This…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20157  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
How to format the user import CSV file when managing users from the BlackBerry Administration Service     
The BlackBerry Administration Service provides functionality to be able to manage multiple user accounts. This can be accessed as follows:…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21981  |   Published: 2/25/11  |   
 
“BESAdmin has forwarded your meeting request” email message is received when a meeting invitation is created or updated on the BlackBerry smartphone     
When a BlackBerry smartphone user creates a meeting appointment or updates a meeting…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB17435  |   Published: 2/24/11  |   
 
Mailbox move repeatedly detected in the BlackBerry Messaging Agent log     
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server repeatedly stops and restarts a BlackBerry smartphone user account, which disrupts normal email message delivery. The B lackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB04772  |   Published: 2/24/11  |   
 
How to format the user import CSV file when importing users from the BlackBerry Administration Service     
The BlackBerry® Administration Service uses a .csv file to add user account information to the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. The actions…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19858  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
How to obtain detailed statistical information for a specific or all BlackBerry users     
Use the BlackBerry Historical Statistics Tool to obtain detailed statistical / usage information on a specific user or all users for a single day. You can…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB22981  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Administration Service configuration for Multicore Processors (CPU)     
The BlackBerry® Administration Service and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server is capable of using more than one CPU as determined by…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23016  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
“An error occurred while initializing a MAPI session” message appears when opening the BlackBerry Manager while logged in through Terminal Services     
Logging in to BlackBerry Manager using Terminal Services and an account that does not have…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB11708  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
Unable to synchronize address book when “Contacts” check box in the “Private contact folders” is unchecked     
The following log line may appear in the BlackBerry Messaging Agent log when the address book synchronization is not working in both…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23776  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
Global Address List lookup results display First Name and Last Name instead of Display Name     
When performing a Global Address List (GAL) lookup from a BlackBerry smartphone, the list of results is based on the First Name and Last Name fields…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB17741  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
Unable to wirelessly synchronize contacts, memos, and tasks with the BlackBerry smartphone     
On the BlackBerry® smartphone, the wireless synchronization options for the Contacts, Tasks, and MemoPad applications are turned on. However, when a…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB10475  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
Common MAPI_E Error messages and definitions seen in BlackBerry Enterprise Server logs     
BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 3.6 to 5.0 SP2 for Microsoft® Exchange Additional MAPI_E error messages and numeric result codes are available on the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB24623  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
BlackBerry smartphone users can receive, but not send email messages after a global catalog referral     
BlackBerry® smartphone users cannot send email messages, but can still receive email messages. This issue first affects a small number of…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB13157  |   Published: 2/23/11  |   
 
Cached Exchange Mode in Microsoft Outlook creates duplicate email messages in the Sync Issues – Conflicts folder for BlackBerry Enterprise Server users     
When Cached Exchange Mode is enabled in Microsoft® Outlook®, BlackBerry® smartphone…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19222  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
S/MIME messages sent from Japanese Microsoft Windows XP operating system received in Microsoft Outlook but not on the BlackBerry device     
Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME signed or encrypted email message sent from Ja panese…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23215  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
How to search for a contact in the Global Address List on a BlackBerry Smartphone     
If a BlackBerry smartphone is activated on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, contacts can be searched for using the company Global Address List (GAL).   When…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB16482  | &n
bsp; Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
“Unlisted Message Error” appears when sending a meeting request from the BlackBerry smartphone     
When a meeting request is sent from the BlackBerry smartphone, the meeting appears in the message list with a red X and the following error…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB05031  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
Calendar synchronization does not work from the BlackBerry smartphone to Microsoft Outlook     
One way calendar synchronization is not working from the BlackBerry smartphone to Microsoft® Outlook® The following log lines are displayed: [30001]…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB14075  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
How to increase the number of allowed address book connection requests in Microsoft Exchange 2010     
In the BlackBerry® Messaging Agent (MAGT) logs, there will be failed lookups for users within the same organization: [30028] (07/19…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23499  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
Other Blackberry Administration Service nodes appear as Partial Singletons and are unable to communicate with them     
After setting up a BlackBerry® Administration Service pool to communicate using TCP and the BlackBerry Administrator Service…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25584  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
Unable to install or upgrade the BlackBerry Enterprise Server due to a mismatched BlackBerry Administration Service pool name     
When attempting to set up a full install for BlackBerry Enterprise Server SP2 or attempting to apply BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20634  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
“BIPPaClient::SendPacket: Pipe full” appears in BlackBerry Messaging Agent log after MORE request     
The following log lines appear in the BlackBerry® Messaging Agent (MAGT) logs in BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0: [30328] (06/04…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19384  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
“MAPI Initialize error 80004005” error message appears while creating or editing a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) profile     
While creating or editing a Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) profile, the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB01637  |   Published: 2/22/11  |   
 
Unable to generate and send an Enterprise Activation password from a remote BlackBerry Manager     
When using the Generate and Email Activation Password option in the remote BlackBerry® Manager the targeted user does not receive any activation…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19487  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
Unable to read the body of an email message on the BlackBerry Smartphone when protected by Microsoft Information Rights Management Add-on     
When an email message is protected using Microsoft® Information Rights Management Add-on and sent to a…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19508  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
ITPolicy Fail Ack for the command SET_IT_POLICY_COMMAND     
The BlackBerry Policy (POLC) log file displays the following error after BlackBerry smartphones are added to and activated on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server following the recreation of…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB11278  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
RSS feeds the inbox of Outlook 2007 are not delivered to the BlackBerry smartphone     
When Microsoft Outlook 2007 is configured to retrieve RSS feeds and display them in the inbox of the mailbox, the RSS feeds are not delivered to the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21193  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
Timestamp is changed to 24-hour time when forwarding or replying to a message     
This is a previously reported issue that is being investigated by our development team. No resolution time frame is currently available. When forwarding or…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB10968  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
“java.nio.channels.UnresolvedAddressException” error displays on the BlackBerry smartphone when using the Browser to access a secure web site     
A BlackBerry smartphone activated on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server trying to access a secure web…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25244  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
“Client not found in Kerberos database” is displayed in the BlackBerry Administration Service logs     
The following error message is displayed in the BAS-AS log file. (10/01…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB24506  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
Creation of MAPI profiles for use with Calhelper.exe     
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Microsoft® Exchange uses an application called Calhelper.exe to perform many calendar functions. Calhelper.exe uses the CDO.dll file to access the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21413  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
Increase mail agent limitation on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server when moving from MSDE to SQL Server     
Description   There is a limit of two mail agents on the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server when using the Microsoft® SQL Server® Desktop…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB04039  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
Unable to install the BlackBerry Monitoring Service with a pre-existing BMSStore database on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server     
When the BlackBerry Monitoring Service is installed where there is a pre-existing BMSStore database, the following…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21491  |   Published: 2/18/11  |   
 
BlackBerry Administration Services runs very slowly or is unresponsive, after an operating system hotfix is applied.  &nbs
p;  
When certain Microsoft® hotfixes are applied to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 before or after instal lation…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25330  |   Published: 2/17/11  |   
 
“More Available” displayed on the BlackBerry when opening Sent Items that were sent from mail client     
When a BlackBerry® smartphone user enables “Sent Items” folder for redirection and sends messages from a mail client, the redirected sent…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20208  |   Published: 2/16/11  |   
 
Installer stops responding on Stopping the SNMP Service     
Whilst running the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation or upgrade, the installer GUI stops responding whilst attempting to stop the SNMP Service.  · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB17335  |   Published: 2/16/11  |   
 
How to configure public contact folder synchronization for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0     
Public folder synchronization can be enabled in the BlackBerry® Administration Service using the following steps: 1) Open the BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19111  |   Published: 2/16/11  |   
 
Disabling IBS Browser IT Policy removes search bar in BlackBerry Browser     
When the IT Policy “Disable IBS Browser” is enabled, it removes the search bar in BlackBerry Browser that offers Google® search, Live™ search, Wikipedia search, and…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB18380  |   Published: 2/16/11  |   
 
How to re-create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server MAPI profile     
The Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) profile is used to facilitate data communication between the Microsoft® Outlook® email application and the Microsoft®…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB10285  |   Published: 2/16/11  |   
 
Push-to-talk function fails when the BlackBerry smartphone is locked     
Users are unable to send or receive Push-toTalk notifications on the BlackBerry® smartphone when the device is locked. · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server · BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20397  |   Published: 2/15/11  |   
 
Disallow Third Party Application Downloads removes RIM signed applications     
The Disallow Third Party Application Downloads IT policy rule prevents a user from installing an unsigned third-party application that is sent over a wi reless…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25826  |   Published: 2/15/11  |   
 
‘Network problems are preventing connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer.’, LowLevelError 1726 is seen the Exchange Server is unavailable     
The following log lines may be seen in the BlackBerry® messaging agent when the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25637  |   Published: 2/14/11  |   
 
“Access Denied: Insecure SSL Request” appears when using the browser on the BlackBerry smartphone     
When the BlackBerry smartphone user attempts to access a website using the browser on the smartphone or attempts to log in to the Blac kBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB15117  |   Published: 2/14/11  |   
 
Meeting invitations received from external domains show as regular email messages on the BlackBerry smartphone     
When a BlackBerry® smartphone user in a Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 or 2010 environment receives a meeting invitation from an…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20866  |   Published: 2/14/11  |   
 
Unable to change Enable S/MIME Message Processing property from BlackBerry Manager     
When the BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator turns on Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) message processing, the True or False…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB13894  |   Published: 2/14/11  |   
 
Meeting invitees show the username instead of the display name for calendar appointments or invitations     
Username displays as alias instead of the display name on calendar appointments or invitations in Microsoft® Outlook® and on the…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB17317  |   Published: 2/11/11  |   
 
Out Of Office does not work from the BlackBerry smartphone     
When Out Of Office is enabled on the BlackBerry® smartphone an Out Of Office reply is not generated. · BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 smartphones · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 4.1 SP7…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB24899  |   Published: 2/11/11  |   
 
How to change the password for the BlackBerry administration account     
After the password is changed in Microsoft® Active Directory®, log into each BlackBerry® service from the Windows® Services application and update the login information…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB13909  |   Published: 2/11/11  |   
 
How to replace temporary client access license keys with permanent license keys in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0     
Combining evaluation BlackBerry® Client Access License (CAL) keys and permanent BlackBerry CAL keys in one BlackBerry Domain…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB22927  |   Published: 2/11/11  |   
 
“The application has encountered a system error” appears when the BlackBerry Administration Service is accessed using Component View in the BlackBerry Administration Service console     
When the BlackBerry Administration Service link under…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23476  |   Published: 2/11/11  |   
 
How to stop PIN information being displayed in the Global Address List (GAL) in Microsoft Outlook     
To stop the PIN infomation displaying in the Global Address List (GAL) for all B lackBerr
y® smartphone users, perform the following steps: 1)…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21109  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
“SideBySide” errors are generated in Windows Event Viewer     
This issue can cause file browsing that is done using the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service (MDS-CS) to not function correctly. The following errors will appear in the event viewer…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20047  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
Email reconciliation does not work after moving a BlackBerry smartphone user’s mailbox to another Microsoft Exchange Server     
When a BlackBerry smartphone user’s mailbox is moved from one Microsoft® Exchange server to another, email…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20770  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
Unable to export IT Policies using BlackBerry Resource Kit 5.0 SP2     
When attempting to export IT policies using the ITPolicyImportExport tool, the following error can be seen in the IT policyImportExport log file: [60000] (09/24…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25015  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
How to update the device.xml and vendor.xml files manually in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0     
In BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, the BlackBerry Administration Service automatically downloads the device.xml and vendor.xml files from…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB22777  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
When a message is forwarded or replied to, the timestamp for the original message appears incorrect     
If the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and the BlackBerry smartphone are located in different time zones, and an email message is forwarded or…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB11008  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
How to customize a Custom Activation Email Message     
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 1) In the Explorer View select Servers. 2) Select the Global tab and click Edit Properties. 3) Select General and user the parameters below to create a…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21507  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
Could not connect to Service Control Manager at \127.0.0.1: 1722     
The BlackBerry® Controller could not connect to the BlackBerry Dispatcher and as a result, the BlackBerry Mailstore, BlackBerry Policy and BlackBerry Synchronization services…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25435  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
Unable to log in to the BlackBerry Administration Service due to invalid DNS record     
Administrators are unable to log in to the BlackBerry® Administration Service web console using Microsoft® Active Directory® authentication. The following…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB25460  |   Published: 2/9/11  |   
 
“Phone Access” Application Control Policy description does not contain the complete functionality of this policy     
Currently the description for the Phone Access Application Control Policy is Set whether the application is permitted to…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21256  |   Published: 2/8/11  |

Windows Internet Explorer 8 is not a supported browser for use with the BlackBerry Administratrion Service web console     
The warning message Errors on the Webpage might cause it to work incorrectly appears when accessing the BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB18278  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
PIN is displayed as 0 in BlackBerry Manager     
On the User List tab in BlackBerry Manager, a BlackBerry smartphone PIN is 0 and its status is No Pin. The BlackBerry smartphone user was successfully added to the BlackBerry Enterprise Se rver….
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB04234  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
Exchange Connector failed to write debug trace logs.     
The following Exchange Connector warning appears in the Event Viewer:    
– Event ID: 10000          
– Exchange Connector          
– application exchange connector diag debug trace…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB21483  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
Folder redirection is randomly disabled for BlackBerry smartphone users resulting in them being unable to receive     
The BlackBerry smartphone is not enabled to process a PURGED_MESSAGE_LIST command, but sends the command. The BlackBerry…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB18549  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
Identifying email message delays caused by Microsoft Exchange performance     
Email messages appear in the Microsoft® Outlook® inbox, but their arrival on the BlackBerry® smartphone is delayed. · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 4.0 to 5.0 ·…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB12870  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
Unable to read the body of S/MIME signed email messages sent from Microsoft Outlook to a BlackBerry smartphone     
When opening a signed message sent from Microsoft® Outlook® to the BlackBerry smartphone, a This S/MIME message cannot be decoded…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB17546  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
“Failed to read 001e6602 reg value from the BlackBerry MAPI profile” appears in the BlackBerry Messaging Agent log file or “One or more errors occurred, BlackBerry enabled users were not created” error message is received when attempting to add users     
“Failed to read 001e6602 reg value from the BlackBerry MAPI profile” appears in the BlackBerry Messaging Agent log file or “One or more errors occurred, BlackBerry enabled users were not created” error message is received when attempting to…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19074  |   Published: 2/7/11  |   
 
How to import BlackBerry Enterprise
Server IT policy rules definitions for Device Software 6.0     
Updates to a newer version of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server are not required in order to support the new IT policy rules definitions. To…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB23515  |   Published: 2/3/11  |   

Cannot send or receive email messages because a user mailbox is moved to another mailbox store on the same Microsoft Exchange Server     
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server cannot send or receive email messages to or from the BlackBerry s martphone…
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB00142  |   Published: 2/1/11  |    

#BlackBerry and Windows Updates

#Exchange

So following on from a previous post (http://flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2011/02/11/blackberry-administration-services-continually-stops-and-restarts.aspx) i discovered another security update that “kills” Blackberry.

So the list for BES 5.0 SP2 MR3 running on Windows 2008 R2 against Exchange Server 2010 is:

In line with BlackBerry KB23927
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB23927

Ensure you do not install the following updates:

  • Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB981852)
  • Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB979683)

And additionally this one caused me some issues

  • Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB2393802)

A Month in #Exchange and #BlackBerry: February 2011: To Read

#Exchange2010

Gonna give this a go this month. Using an advanced search from here: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/microsites/searchEntry.do for a date range to include -BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange.  Let see how it goes?!


BlackBerry Enterprise Server services errors
The following errors are logged in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server logs and the Windows Event Viewer logs for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server services. The lists are divided into three…
ID: KB04099 | Published: 1/31/11

How to migrate from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in a BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 environment
When migrating Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010 in a BlackBerry…
ID: KB22601 | Published: 1/31/11

How to install or upgrade the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1
To update a previous MAPI client to Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and CDO version 1.2.1 To update to the Microsoft Exchange…
ID: KB15779 | Published: 1/31/11

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appears on Windows Event logs and BlackBerry MDS Connection Service logs after upgrading to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2
After upgrading to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0…
ID: KB25239 | Published: 1/31/11

How to update the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account password
After the password for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account has been changed in Microsoft® Active Directory®, complete the following steps: 1) In Windows®…
ID: KB05127 | Published: 1/31/11

How to set up Level 1 Notifications
Level 1 Notifications are sent to the BlackBerry® smartphone to indicate when important or urgent messages are sent. Use one of the following methods to define the notification filters to enable Level 1…
ID: KB02459 | Published: 1/31/11

How to increase the number of prepopulated email messages sent to a BlackBerry smartphone during the enterprise activation process
For BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0 An increased limit for email message prepopulation can be set during the…
ID: KB04715 | Published: 1/31/11

“MAPIMailbox::MAPIMailbox – OpenMsgStore (0x80040204) failed” appears in BlackBerry Messaging Agent logs and some users fail to start
After running an application that uses Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI), the following…
ID: KB23981 | Published: 1/31/11

The BlackBerry Administration Service page does not open due to an invalid “web.keystore” file
The BlackBerry Administration Service page cannot be displayed. The BlackBerry Administration Service Application Server service is continuously…
ID: KB18260 | Published: 1/31/11

How to test SNMP functionality on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 includes the BlackBerry Monitoring Service which allows an administrator to assess the health of the BlackBerry environment. The BlackBerry…
ID: KB19986 | Published: 1/28/11

Free/Busy Information is not updated when calendar items are created or modified from the BlackBerry smartphone
When calendar items are created or modified from the BlackBerry® smartphone, Free/Busy information that would reflect these…
ID: KB21305 | Published: 1/28/11

“MAPIMailbox – OpenMsgStore (0x8004011d) failed” appears and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server is unable to start all BlackBerry smartphones
While the BlackBerry Enterprise Server services are started, the BlackBerry Messaging Agents are…
ID: KB20066 | Published: 1/28/11

“EWS Error: No EXCH protocol information” is reported in the CalHelper logs when Exchange Web Services is enabled
After enabling Microsoft Exchange Web Services on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the following log lines are seen in the…
ID: KB21731 | Published: 1/28/11

How to use the BlackBerry Calendar Synchronization Tool (Traittool.exe)
For BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1. SP6 and 5.0 How to enable the TraitTool for a single BlackBerry® smartphone user and verify the process was started and completed…
ID: KB18548 | Published: 1/27/11

“Unrecognized file format error” error message appears on the smartphone when opening .PDF attachments
When viewing .pdf, .doc, .xls, or .jpg files on the BlackBerry® smartphone, or when using the Testing Attachment Service feature in…
ID: KB15970 | Published: 1/27/11

BlackBerry Enterprise Server central processing unit utilization spikes to 100%
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server central processing unit (CPU) utilization is excessively high or spikes to 100%. When reviewing the BlackBerry Messaging Agent…
ID: KB16097 | Published: 1/27/11

Allow or deny read receipts
Note: This article is intended for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP4 to 4.1 SP7, as the registry key is not supported in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0. To allow or deny read receipts for BlackBerry…
ID: KB13610 | Published: 1/26/11

One or more duplicate calendar entries appear in Microsoft Outlook or the BlackBerry smartphone
A BlackBerry® smartphone user may encounter a situation where some or all calendar appointments are duplicated. To troubleshoot this issue, the…
ID: KB19135 | Published: 1/26/11

Rich Text Format is converted to pain text when a meeting invite is viewed in the calendar in Microsoft Outlook
If a BlackBerry® smartphone receives a meeting invitation that includes Rich Text Format (RTF) characters, the RTF is converted…
ID: KB19438 | Published: 1/26/11

How to manually remove a BlackBerry Enterprise Server from the Servers list in the BlackBerry Manager
If a BlackBerry Enterprise Server is decommissioned without being uninstalled, it may be needed to be manually removed from the Servers…
ID: KB24210 | Published: 1/26/11

Correct order to start and stop BlackBerry Enterprise Server services
Important: Restarting the BlackBerry Controller or BlackBerry Dispatcher delays email message delivery to BlackBerry smartphones. For information on delays in email…
ID: KB13718 | Published: 1/26/11

How to use the Keep Messages option on the BlackBerry smartphone
The Keep Messages option allows configuration of the number of days to keep email messages, SMS text messages and PIN to PIN messages on the BlackBerry® smartphone. After this…
ID: KB13093 | Published: 1/25/11

Best practices for application deployment from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
This document contains recommendations for deploying applications using software configurations and minimizing the impact on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server….
ID: KB23403 | Published: 1/25/11

Contacts are deleted from the BlackBerry smartphone after the BlackBerry smartphone user is moved to a destination BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP1 via the BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter
After using the BlackBerry Enterprise…
ID: KB20760 | Published: 1/25/11 |

Random BlackBerry smartphone users are unable to send and receive emails in a Microsoft Exchange 2010 messaging environment
Random BlackBerry® smartphone users might fail to start if the number of connections to the Microsoft Exchange…
ID: KB23479 | Published: 1/25/11

How to switch BlackBerry Enterprise Server service accounts
To change the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, complete the following tasks: Summary of Tasks 1) Create a…
ID: KB04293 | Published: 1/25/11

How to move the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account mailbox
The following procedure describes how to move the administration mailbox that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses between mailbox stores or from one Microsoft Exchange…
ID: KB03296 | Published: 1/25/11

How to use the IEMSTest.exe tool to verify that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account can access user mailboxes
In certain situations, system administrators can use a quick method to test whether the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server…
ID: KB02091 | Published: 1/25/11

BlackBerry Messaging Agent silently crashes while processing an HTML email with in-line images
The BlackBerry Messaging Agent silently crashes while processing an HTML email with in line images. The following information appears in the…
ID: KB25345 | Published: 1/24/11

How to re-create the BlackBerry Enterprise Server MAPI profile
The Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) profile is used to facilitate data communication between the Microsoft® Outlook® email application and the Microsoft®…
ID: KB10285 | Published: 1/24/11

How to use the handheldcleanup.exe tool when moving mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange
The handheldcleanup.exe tool is used when moving a mailbox from one Microsoft Exchange Server to another Microsoft Exchange Server. If the mailbox was moved…
ID: KB00140 | Published: 1/24/11

Ho
w to adjust the BlackBerry Controller settings to force a restart in case of a severely hung thread with blackout settings

Warning: The following procedure involves modifying the computer registry. This can cause substantial damage to the…
ID: KB15824 | Published: 1/21/11

Character size limitation for custom email activation password message
Administrators can create customized messages for email activation passwords from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. However, there are limitations to the number of…
ID: KB23781 | Published: 1/21/11

How to remove a decommissioned remote component from the BlackBerry Administration Service
This article describes how to remove a decommissioned remote component using the BlackBerry Administration console. To remove a decommissioned remote…
ID: KB24914 | Published: 1/21/11

Unable to send or receive email messages after a mailbox move
A BlackBerry® smartphone user is unable to send or receive messages after the user’s mailbox was moved to a new mail store on a different Microsoft® Exchange Server in the same…
ID: KB10444 | Published: 1/21/11

BlackBerry Enterprise Server services configuration for High Availability
BlackBerry Enterprise Server services for a High Availability pair show some services with a Startup Type of Manual. This is by design, as the BlackBerry…
ID: KB22924 | Published: 1/21/11

How to enable DebugLogLevel 15 in the registry for the Blackberry Enterprise Server
Warning: The following procedure involves modifying the computer registry. This can cause substantial damage to the Windows® operating system. Document and…
ID: KB13997 | Published: 1/21/11

Sending emails from the BlackBerry Administration Service failed with “The request could not be completed”
When email messages are sent to users from the BlackBerry Administration Service console, the error “The request could not be…
ID: KB21644 | Published: 1/21/11

How to configure BlackBerry Administration Service High Availability nodes to communicate via TCPPING instead of UDP in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0
In BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, several components can be configured for high…
ID: KB19436 | Published: 1/21/11

Insufficient CALHelperWS permissions result in errors in CALH log
The following log lines may be printed within the CALH logs for CALHelperWS (Microsoft Exchange Web Services solution for CALHelper) after it is enabled via the trait tool:…
ID: KB19603 | Published: 1/21/11

Open message store may fail with IPv6 configured
The message store may not open when Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is configured. · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server · Microsoft® Exchange 2010 IPv6 is not supported, and will cause what…
ID: KB24886 | Published: 1/21/11

BlackBerry Server disconnects from the SQL configuration database and Exchange Information Store at the same time
BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 4.1 SP7 · Microsoft® Exchange Server · Microsoft® SQL Server® Some backup solutions that send…
ID: KB25257 | Published: 1/21/11

A red X send email failure occurs when replying to an email
A red X send failure may appear when a user attempts to reply to an email message on the BlackBerry® smartphone. If the user retries the failed sent item, it promptly goes through…
ID: KB24038 | Published: 1/21/11

How to turn on global catalog referrals for a Microsoft Exchange Server
BlackBerry smartphone users experience messaging delays or stoppage due to a global catalog server going offline. · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 4.1 to 5.0 SP2 ·…
ID: KB16118 | Published: 1/21/11

BlackBerry Server Configuration console is missing the BlackBerry server tab
When launching the BlackBerry Server Configuration console, the BlackBerry Server tab is missing. This eliminates the Edit MAPI Profile ability in Black Berry…
ID: KB17722 | Published: 1/21/11

Intermittent mail delivery issues are experienced on BlackBerry smartphones when Microsoft Exchange is configured behind a load balancing appliance
Users receive a red X when sending new email or replying to emails from their BlackBerry…
ID: KB22812 | Published: 1/21/11

“The enablement process has not completed” appears when attempting to configure multiple Private Folder synchronization
When attempting to configure multiple Private Contact Folder synchronization for a particular BlackBerry smartphone user…
ID: KB24873 | Published: 1/20/11

How to enable hard deletes on the BlackBerr
y Enterprise Server

In BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, the Hard Deletes Reconciliation feature can be enabled so that email messages are permanently de leted…
ID: KB04853 | Published: 1/20/11

BlackBerry Policy Service does not send service books with valid SRP ID, after the BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator changes to an invalid SRP ID, and back again to a valid SRP ID
When the BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator…
ID: KB23779 | Published: 1/18/11

Double-byte characters do not display correctly in the calendar items for BlackBerry smartphone users
Double-byte characters are not displayed correctly in the calendar items for BlackBerry® smartphone users. The characters are displayed as…
ID: KB14757 | Published: 1/13/11

New features of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2
The following features have been introduced in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2: New authentication features · Administrator can configure the intranet sites that users must use RSA®…
ID: KB23063 | Published: 1/12/11

Vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
This issue affects the BlackBerry® Attachment Service component of the following software versions: · BlackBerry Enterprise Server…
ID: KB25382 | Published: 1/11/11

How and when to enable Microsoft Exchange Web Services for calendaring components on BlackBerry Enterprise Server
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server can be configured to use Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) instead of cdo.dll for…
ID: KB20028 | Published: 1/11/11

Delayed notifications state for health checks
The following information appears in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server debug log: [30164] Mail seems to be in ‘delayed notifications’ state for health checks where <X> is the number of health…
ID: KB01892 | Published: 1/11/11

“Error 5608” appears when starting the BlackBerry Dispatcher
When the BlackBerry Dispatcher is started, Error 5608 appears in the System log. · BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 4.0 and 4.1 for Microsoft® Exchange · BlackBerry® Profess ional…
ID: KB04185 | Published: 1/11/11

Issues with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server in a Windows Server 2008 based Microsoft Active Directory environment
In an environment using exclusively, or a majority of, global catalog servers on Windows Server 2008, it is possible that the…
ID: KB17325 | Published: 1/10/11

Assign permissions for a BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account
The following permissions can be assigned for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account: 1) Local Administrator rights on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 2) Send…
ID: KB02276 | Published: 1/10/11

How to migrate the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 to new hardware using the high availability feature
The migrating of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to new hardware needs to be considered as the following two distinct components: ·…
ID: KB22499 | Published: 1/7/11

BlackBerry Messaging Agent crashes during rescan of public contact folder
In certain situations, the BlackBerry Messaging Agent crashes unexpectedly during the rescan of public contact folders. [10000] (05/01 09:04:02.890):{0x 22CC}…
ID: KB22570 | Published: 1/7/11

BlackBerry Administration Services continually stops and restarts, after an operating system hotfix is applied
When certain Microsoft® hotfixes are applied to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 before or after installation of the…
ID: KB23927 | Published: 1/7/11

#BlackBerry Administration Services continually stops and restarts..

#Exchange #Exchange2010

BlackBerry Administration Services continually stops and restarts, after an operating system hotfix is applied
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB23927

This is a good one! basically uninstall:

  • Hotfix for MS10-021 related to Microsoft KB979683
  • Hotfix for MS10-047 related to Microsoft KB981852

How to increase the number of allowed address book connection requests in #Exchange 2010

#Exchange2010 #BlackBerry

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB23499

Yeah, yeah before you start I know there are a million blog entries out there saying this but, they don’t really.  With Exchange Server 2010 MaxSessionsPerUser doesn’t exist in microsoft.exchange.addressbook.service.exe.config

This KB clarifies this .. the important bit is “must be added manually”

Note: Under Microsoft Exchange 2010, SP1, this value is no longer included in the microsoft.exchange.addressbook.service.exe.config file. The MaxSessionsPerUser (i.e. MaxSessionsPerUser=100000) value must be manually added to the file and set to the desired number of connections.

Intermittent mail delivery issues are experienced on #BlackBerry smartphones

#Exchange #Exchange2010 .. stumbled on this.  We are using F5 LTM’s to front our Cas Arrays .. the workaround is really rubbish!

Intermittent mail delivery issues are experienced on BlackBerry smartphones when Microsoft Exchange is configured behind a load balancing appliance

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB22812&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_SUPPORTISSUE_1_1&dialogID=1057961473&stateId=0


Users receive a red X when sending new email or replying to emails from their BlackBerry smartphones in what appears to be a random pattern. If an affected user sends the message again, it is delivered.

In environments that incorporate hardware or software load balancing appliances, such as Big-IP, Barracuda, or F5, issues can be encountered in which sporadic error messages regarding reaching users’ mailboxes or performing basic communication functions appear in both Windows Event Viewer and the BlackBerry Messaging Agent (MAGT) debug logs. These error messages are typically repetitive and occur approximately every 5 to 7 minutes once the initial issue is encountered.

… Workaround .. Bypass the hardware load balancer with a hosts file entry so that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server may communicate directly with a single Client Access Server.

WHAT!

Vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

#Blackberry #BES #Exchange

Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB24547

Product(s) Affected:

  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express
  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for IBM® Lotus® Domino®
  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Microsoft® Exchange
  • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for Novell® GroupWise®

The vulnerability could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or possibly arbitrary code execution on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on.

Successful exploitation of this issue requires a malicious individual to persuade a BlackBerry smartphone user to open a specially crafted PDF file on a BlackBerry smartphone that is associated with a user account on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The PDF file may be attached to an email message, or the BlackBerry smartphone user may retrieve it from a web site using the Get Link menu item on the BlackBerry smartphone.

BES 5.0 SP2: Blackberry User #Exchange 2010 IOPS now equal to an Outlook Client

#Exchange2010

Interesting, from WES 2010 session ‘WA25: Best Practices in Deploying Microsoft® Exchange for BlackBerry’ jointly presented by RIM and Microsoft Jeff Mealiffe (Sr. Development Lead, Scalability & Capacity Planning) it says:

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  • Database IOPS per user is equivalent to a Microsoft® Outlook® client, not 5x and not 3x
  • Our past data represented the worst case scenario
    • Workload assumes both BlackBerry and Microsoft Outlook clients active
    • 100% BlackBerry enabled users
    • High density of BlackBerry users on a single storage group
  • Our focus in the past has also been on providing a single impact number
    • Database I/O more expensive and needs to be our focus (random I/O)
    • ransaction log I/O gets optimized well by disk infrastructure (increase is not as relevant – sequential I/O)

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  • Dual clients per user active (Outlook and BlackBerry )
    • DB IOPS increase by 1.85x for BlackBerry enabled users only
    • DB IOPS increase by 1.7x for BlackBerry enabled users only (5.0.2
      optimizations)
    • DB IOPS with optimization equivalent to an outlook client
  • Truly mobile users (only BlackBerry client)
    • DB IOPS equivalent to an Outlook client

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BES 5.0 SP2 DB IOPS increase by only 1.7x with Exchange 2010 compared with 2.16x on Exchange 2007 with BES 5.01

Mail server role

  • Mail server CPU recommendation is about 1.4 -1.5x MCycles/mailbox recommended by Microsoft
  • Memory, same as what is recommended by MS for outlook users/clients

CAS Server role

  • CPU core recommendation is inline with 4:3 ratio recommend by Microsoft for CAS:Mail server
  • NSPI connection count needs to be increased to 1 per BlackBerry smart phone – default is 50 (too low)
  • Throttling needs to be disabled for the service account used for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

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Check out some of the other stuff from WES here: www.attendwes.com/virtualwes