[evilbert]

I recently installed the latest version of Blackberry Professional Software, got my licenses and everything is working fine except the calender sync function from the devices back to the server.

The software was installed on MS Small Business Server 2003, so it is on the same server as Exchange. According to the blurb, this should not pose a problem and indeed, it went very smoothly except for the issue outlines above. I can update any item in Outlook for any user, calender, tasks, contacts, etc and it goes to the phone almost instantly. Similarly, any update entered on the phone syncs back almost as quickly, bar the calender.

I read a number of forum posts on the topic but all were to do with having BES on a separate server to Exchange, none were for Blackberry Professional Software. Still, I followed the instructions on some of them. I installed an Exchange update from MS and then copied cdo.dll from the Exchange directory to system32 and registered it. Then I restarted all Exchange and BB services and tried again to no avail. Calender items inputted in the device won't sync wirelessly to the users Outlook.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[gibson_hg]

What account did you install the BES as? What groups is that account in? Seeing as this is the same box as Exchange it's a permissions issue. Either the account is an admin or you missed a permission along the way.

Check this article:

BlackBerry Search Results

Let us know what you find.

[evilbert]

Right, some of that worked fine but I had a bit of trouble, either down to the peculiarities of SBS or the new blackberry professional software, I don't know.

I followed the link and quickly realised where I went wrong, I had installed the software as the domain admin, I forgot to create a blackberry admin account. I followed the instructions on how to set up a besadmin user and gave it all the necessary permissions. The instructions were flawless up until near the end but I didn't realise this until later on, when I went to restart the services and got a pile of events in the log (event ids 20659, 20641, 20642) which all related to the software interacting with SQL Server. I had to log on to the server as the besadmin user and run the BlackBerry Server Configuration wizard again to point it to the database.
I now have the services running as the besadmin user instead of the domain admin but all the users have gone home so I don't know if the calender sync problem is fixed or not!

Thanks for you help so far, I'll report back on whether the sync problem is fixed but I suspect it is.

[knottyrope]

Let me guess, you dont have a BB with a data plan to test it with.

[evilbert]

Heh, I do but I work for a company that provides third party IT support to lots of SMBs. My bb is tied to my own BES, not to this customer's network.

[knottyrope]

OIC

Good luck. Hope it works