In the Blackberry Enterprise Server, you can configure that you get notified by e-mail when something critical happens to the BES Servers. For example, if the connection to the SQL Server is lost, you can get notified. Here is how to configure the alerts:
In BlackBerry Manager, highlight the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and click Edit Properties.
Click on the BES Alert option.
In the SMTP Hostname field, type the DNS name of the SMTP gateway.
In the SMTP Account Name field, type the Microsoft Read more [...]
The Internet Proxy configuration is a setting of the MDS Connection Service (MDS-CS). This means, if you have the MDS-CS on several servers (e.g. in an active-standby server setup), you have to configure it on all instances. Configuring the Internet Proxy correctly enables your Blackberry users to surf via your companies network (using the MDS Browser). To set the proxy configuration up for on instance, see the following steps:
Go to the Blackberry Management Console and click on the MDS-CS instance Read more [...]
You can find many instructions on the Web on how to install WordPress on your own web server, but it might still be a complicated task. So I did my own instructions as per below:
Make sure you have MySQL installed on your server
Make sure, IIS 7 is installed
Make sure PHP is installed and php.ini is configured correctly
Download the latest WordPress version (2.9.2 as of this writing) from wordpress.org
Unzip the downloaded file into a newly created Inetpub sub-folder
The newly Read more [...]
Sometimes it is very convenient to check the number of pending items of a specific user centrally on the Blackberry Enterprise Server Console. This used to be quite simple on BES 4.1, but on BES 5.0, RIM has hidden this figure deep down in the GUI. Here is how to retrieve it:
Login to the web console
Click Manage Users
Click on the user name
Click on the Component information tab
You can now see the Pending data packets
This can be very helpful when you are troubleshooting connectivity Read more [...]
If you send a message from Outlook, the sent e-mail gets replicated to your Blackberry Smartphone. You can identify sent items by the check mark left to message: When you open the message, you only see the headers, but not the body: This is by design to save bandwidth and memory. If you need to see the full message, press the Menu key and select More: This behavior is normal, even if you have “Auto More” enabled in the General E-Mail Options. “Auto More” is only applicable Read more [...]
If you have got Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise Edition, you can use BitLocker to encrypt your drives. Here is how to enable it for the system drive (c: drive):
Click on Start and type bitlocker, press Enter
Before you Start the encryption, you should enable TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which is used to store the BitLocker encryption key. To go there, click TPM Administration
Let the computer restart
Follow the instructions to enable IMS, and then choose Automatically create the Read more [...]
KMS (Kerio Mail Server) comes with the Spamassassin spam protection. Although not officially supported by Kerio, you can change spamassassin by modifying the spamassassin rules and config files. On Windows, all the important files are in
C:\Program Files\Kerio\MailServer\plugins\spamassassin\rules
Before you change anything, you should definitely backup all files in this directory!
The .cf files contain the rules and the scores. They are plain text and you can change them, but you have to Read more [...]
In enterprise environments, documents and other file types are often located on central file server and users open their documents directly from there. Sometimes, server administrators need to update such files, but can’t because at least one user is using it and locking the file. You could of course just reboot the server and the file would be unlocked, but that might be overkill as you are throwing everybody out. Luckily, there is a tool on the server, that lets you selectively unlock files, Read more [...]
Sometimes it is handy to know if a mail that you sent has actually arrived on the recipient’s Blackberry. There are delivery receipts in Exchange and other mail systems, but they only confirm that the receiving mail server has accepted the mail, you can’t be sure that the mail ever showed up on the Blackberry. To get a Blackberry delivery notification, you must start your subject with <confirm> So for example, you can send a message from Outlook with the following subject: Once this Read more [...]
The Blackberry Enterprise Server consists of more than 10 services and it can be quite confusing to know which service does what. Also, the corresponding log files don’t have abreviations that can be confusing as well. In the following table, I have summarized the services and corresponding log file names: Service Purpose Log name Blackberry Alert Sends alerts when Read more [...]
