Blackberry / Microsoft Exchange Server

[iChimp]

Hi all,

I have recently purchased a reasonably old Blackberry 8700g off eBay but i was wondering if, while i am waiting for it to arrive, you could all help me with something.

I am able to access my work emails though a web link to access the Microsoft Exchange server ... can the Blackberry be set up somehow to access work emails without having to visit the webpage?

I know this is probably a really vague and badly worded question so if anyone needs any more information to be able to help please shout and ill update you with anything i can !

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

[Funkstar]

What you need is BES - Blackberry Enterprise Server

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/exchange/

There are a few diferent ways of doing this apparently, but i forget the details right now. We have breifly looked into this for our work too.

[iChimp]

Ah ok thank you for the information Funkstar!
I will look into that

Regards,


** EDIT **

Is there a way of getting access to this for FREE? It looks like you have to pay $99??

[Funkstar]

How about setting Exchange to make your account available over IMAP?

[iChimp]

How about setting Exchange to make your account available over IMAP?

Umm that sounds awesome but ... no idea how to do that im afraid

[iChimp]

Would this work?

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/service...al_express.jsp

It states:

One free BlackBerry® Professional Software for Microsoft® Exchange or IBM® Lotus® Domino®
One user included, expandable to 30 users (at additional cost)

[Funkstar]

Oh, by the way, all of this assumes being able to set up software on the Exchange server itself or deploy another server along with it.

You should really speak to your mail admin people to see what they can do for you. I misread your first post on the subject

[iChimp]

Ah damn ok.
I work for a big UK based bank so its unlikey they are going to get anything done at a server level just for me...

[Funkstar]

But there is a good chance they have things in place for their execs who undoubtedly will also have BBs

[iChimp]

If the exchange server has already been setup for the big bods to use how hard would it be for me to get my BB setup do you think?

What would i have to do?

Regards,

p.s. thank you for all your help so far!

[Funkstar]

Speak to your IT support department... or your boss.

Thats about all you can do really.

[iChimp]

Lovely cheers mate ill check with them on Monday!

Thanks for all your assistance.

Kind regards,

[Funkstar]

No problem, thats what we are here for