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How are you using BIS? BIS is offsite, and the devices don't touch Exchange. I would speculate that unless you have forwarding enabled on their mailboxes to go to their BIS SMTP address, you're out of luck unless you go dredging through IIS logs, which, even then, probably wouldn't provide everything you need.
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Honestly, I don't know a ton about it. Maybe BIS is the wrong term?
The blackberries somehow use OWA to connect to their exchange mailbox and sync mail. They use a blackberry web interface to setup the connection.
Once we get the list I am not sure what it would matter, since to block it we would have to turn off their OWA access, which we do not want.
Darn HR and their difficult requests.
The blackberries somehow use OWA to connect to their exchange mailbox and sync mail. They use a blackberry web interface to setup the connection.
Once we get the list I am not sure what it would matter, since to block it we would have to turn off their OWA access, which we do not want.
Darn HR and their difficult requests.
biglebowski
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You can add an exchange address to BIS. You have to set it up through the web interface bis.eu.blackberry.com etc. BIS then uses OWA to get the emails and forwards them to the device.
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Right. Like biglebowski mentions, BIS connects to OWA - the devices don't.
A better solution would be to use a third party solution that lets Blackberry devices connect via ActiveSync. MUCH MUCH MUCH lower disk I/O on your server.
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Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
A better solution would be to use a third party solution that lets Blackberry devices connect via ActiveSync. MUCH MUCH MUCH lower disk I/O on your server.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
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Block BIS access at the firewall if NO ONE is supposed to be using them. I've done that before. Somewhere on the Blackberry site is a list of their server IPs.
For what it's worth, BIS/BES introduces a gain in IOPS of 3-7 times what a non-mobile or EAS equipped mailbox uses.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
For what it's worth, BIS/BES introduces a gain in IOPS of 3-7 times what a non-mobile or EAS equipped mailbox uses.
Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.
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