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From: Eric Baines on 12 Feb 2008 08:16 I love MS smartphones. We have a whole range of them - a couple of hundred - both phones and PDAs - all getting push email etc from our Exchange server. My problems is that I have 2 people who want to try Blackberrys. And those 2 people are our HR Director and our Chief Exec. The difficulty is that Blackberrys have now reached mythical reliability. Every problem with a smartphone would not occur with a Blackberry. The only way I can disprove this is to let them try it and see. But obviously, I don't want to spend loads of money on a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) just for 2 Blackberrys, that hopefully will be returned pretty sharpish. So I wondered if anyone had any ideas of if it is possible to synch a couple of Blackberries to Exchange (email, calendar and contacts) without buying a BES? Cheers Eric
From: Rupert Moss-Eccardt on 12 Feb 2008 12:14 Eric Baines wrote: > I love MS smartphones. We have a whole range of them - a couple of hundred - > both phones and PDAs - all getting push email etc from our Exchange server. > > My problems is that I have 2 people who want to try Blackberrys. And those 2 > people are our HR Director and our Chief Exec. > > The difficulty is that Blackberrys have now reached mythical reliability. > Every problem with a smartphone would not occur with a Blackberry. The only > way I can disprove this is to let them try it and see. But obviously, I don't > want to spend loads of money on a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) just for > 2 Blackberrys, that hopefully will be returned pretty sharpish. > > So I wondered if anyone had any ideas of if it is possible to synch a couple > of Blackberries to Exchange (email, calendar and contacts) without buying a > BES? You can get a trial BES for no money. However, in the meantime you can point your keen people at the stories of the Blackberry infrastructure failures. Google for Blackberry email outage or similar.
From: newsman on 24 Feb 2008 20:51
PULEEZE! What, two(2) days in HOW MANY YEARS? If you were in Manhattan on 9/11, you'ld know WHY Blackberry is preferred by the cognoscenti "Eric Baines" <EricBaines(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5F7E01CD-3E75-4140-BCB5-73B3ED2E0394(a)microsoft.com... >I love MS smartphones. We have a whole range of them - a couple of >hundred - > both phones and PDAs - all getting push email etc from our Exchange > server. > > My problems is that I have 2 people who want to try Blackberrys. And those > 2 > people are our HR Director and our Chief Exec. > > The difficulty is that Blackberrys have now reached mythical reliability. > Every problem with a smartphone would not occur with a Blackberry. The > only > way I can disprove this is to let them try it and see. But obviously, I > don't > want to spend loads of money on a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) just > for > 2 Blackberrys, that hopefully will be returned pretty sharpish. > > So I wondered if anyone had any ideas of if it is possible to synch a > couple > of Blackberries to Exchange (email, calendar and contacts) without buying > a > BES? > > Cheers > > Eric |