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Activesync and Blackberry Professional Software on the Same Exchange Server?

Can Microsoft Activesync and Blackberry Professional Software be installed on the same Exchange 2003 Server? We currently have many employees with Blackberry's, so the Software is already installed. Now with the release of iPhone 3G we have many employees whom purchased them and want to sync as well. So I would like to know if anyone has this same scenario and if there was any tricky configurations to it?

Thanks,

top_rung

I have seen working environments that have no problems. The admins reported no special configurations. My ActiveSync environments weren't mixed, but at times, we toyed around with the idea of using BES and my research had shown it was straightforward. As I never did the implementation afterall, I can't give you details.

I found this discussion here on EE and as stated in it, there should be no technical reason why this isn't possible..

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23064118/Active-Sync-and-Blackberry.html

armgtit

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I wish there was a better answer than going off assumption.

50centos

I have the same setup as you, but I dare not put Blackberry on the Exchange server. I have MS ActiveSync & IMAP over SSL on the FE & Exchange server. I will be phasing out the crackberry soon, the users with Blackberry will be connecting via OWA (for a minimal fee). iPhone users will use ActiveSync or IMAP over SSL. You don't need a spanking machine for the Blackberry server. A locked-down PII machine is good enough.

kieran_b

I have had BES running on an Exchange server without a problem - EAS doesn't mind it at all. Of course, for load you don't really want more than ~20 users with BBs if BES in on the Exchange server.

armgtit

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Question wasn't resolved definitely.

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