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On Thursday 29 January 2009 2:30:00 pm Michael Leone wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tim Allen <flipper@peregrinesalon.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Julien Mills <julienfmills@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Since we aren't running Exchange Server and have only, at > >> this point, 5 Blackberrys, I don't think it makes sense to > >> get BES. Not that I have anything against it. I'll see > >> that else I can come up with. > > > > Definitely check out Blackberry Internet Service. Your provider (AT&T? > > Sprint? Verizon?) should provide it. Basically, you'll go to their web > > site, and you can set up your Blackberry in several ways: > > > > (1) you can set it to pull from up to 10 different email accounts via > > POP or IMAP. It polls about once a minute, and then pushes to the > > Blackberry. > > Won't work for accessing a private internal email server, tho. Only > for accessing public mail servers like Yahoo, Gmail, etc. If his > domain is hosted by Google Apps, that might work. If they use an > internal server (say Courier), BIS won't access it, IIRC. > > I believe that's the difference between BES and BIS. No, before we got the BPS licensed, we used BIS to access our exchange mail. The difference with BES/BPS and BIS is IT vs. local control, and pushing just about anything to the BBs. Before we went BB, we used Treos, and I spent a ton of time at individual PCs and handhelds troubleshooting sync problems. With BPS, I can define various configurations and policies from the server, and activate and configure a unit in less than two minutes without leaving my desk. I can reconfigure a handheld that has been fubared by a user in less than a minute. Times when I actually need the unit in hand are rare. Of course, I can also destroy a lost or stolen unit, Mission Impossible style, from the server as well. I don't like my work BB nearly as much as I like my personal Centro, but from an IT administration standpoint, Palm, Apple, Android and Symbian, don't even try to compete.
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