RIM announces BES 5.0
RIM announced on Wednesday the impending release of the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. BES 5.0 will offers a slew of new features that make the BlackBerry experience for enterprise users that much more pleasurable. Among the user-side benefits discussed:
- Retrieve corporate documents behind firewalls
- Add, read, rename and delete folders on the handset and have those changes be applied to the desktop email client
- Create rules within the inbox to filter email and have those changes be applied to the desktop
- View attachments in calendar entries and meeting requests
- Download and store emails and email attachments onto microSD cards
Over-the-air updates will also be easier for both administrators and users alike. We’ve been seeing and hearing about BES 5.0 forever so it’ll be nice to finally see it come to market, albeit about a million years behind schedule. We’ll surely see all of the details ironed out at WES so stay tuned, BES users.
I just want to be able to BOLD, Underline, Italicize maybe even change font when composing an email.
I shall wait and see, when my company shall upgrade
Cool is this why my Rim stock dropped 17% today?
so it only took them what about a year to get this out?
My number one request from end users is the ability to sync public folders. I wonder if that will be available.
Public folders won’t be available is my guess – MS is trying to tear us away from that and use their sharepoint crap instead.
Folder sync is nice, finally.
Anyway, it’s about time this is coming!! My ONLY request for this version is to support Server 2008. They have been dodging that question for the past year and it’s really starting to annoy.
can someone explain in more detail what access corporate documents behind firewalls means?
Does this mean I can have access to my my companies server and access my mapped drives and retrieve documents from there?
I’m using BES 5.0 Beta 4 for Microsoft Exchange.. it’s a web-based version of 4.1.x software… at the moment no big diferences.
Any word on Blackberry Professional Server?
So when is the 5.0 OS going to be released for the 8310 Curve?
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I want to know three things.
1. If this version will not absolutely rape the Exchange servers causing 2-3x the normal I/O per user. Please… pretty please, RIM
2. Will we finally not have to remove and re-add users to the BES when they mysteriously stop sync’ing? This is absurd and makes suppot a nightmare compared to ActiveSync devices.
3. Will BES 5.0 not throwup and stop working for entire AD domains if you happen to reboot the global catalog server it was using for a particular domain?
It will probably support for those documents by way of web shares in SharePoint in the same way Microsoft Outlook Web Access does.
We have been hearing about BES 5 for a long time. I’ll believe the “threat” of it’s release when it’s actually released. In the mean time, I’m recomending my clients to switch to Windows Mobile 6.1 if they want to use SBS 2008, 2008 and Exchange 2007 (all of my clients in this case).
2003 products are OLD and the MS 2007/2008 products have been out long enough for RIM to design a “solution” to fit these. They have not so far.
Frankly, MS Activesync is looking better every day. Less cost, less administration, less setup with more functionality than the current BES offers.
My clients need solutions NOW, not tomorrow. RIM could have released a soltion in time with the release of Exchange 2007/Server 2008 and SBS 2008. But they didn’t and my clienst are moving away as a result. I can’t stand that MS is winning in this market, but without a viable solution, what is an engineer to do?
Oh come on, it’s fun to reboot the entire BES server because one user out 200 quit synching.
I’m with Bill… Clients want SBS 2008 with BES but cant… wtf RIM?
Bill Gates, perhaps, of Washington? I don’t know if your activesync endorsement would be free from prejudice.
I can’t even understand why RIM wouldn’t have their software updated at this point to work with Server 2008… I mean, c’mon! It’s 2009 already!