Disallow Third Party Application Downloads IT policy rule & app pushes

October 25, 2011

Since RIM offered free downloads for the BlackBerry Service outage, a number of clients inquired about preventing 3rd party downloads of applications.   One client has two in house apps they push out to 1300 users. In the release notes for BES 5.0 SP3, Dev Task 890899 fixed an issue in BAS: If you applied the [...]

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Comment Spam and WordPress

October 14, 2011

Lately, I have been receiving a lot more comment spam. My blog would receive about 30 spam comments or more per day which is a big waste of time just to delete the spam comments and mark them as spam.  So I found out about Akismet and for just $24 a year (there’s a sliding pay [...]

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QNX Devices and BES compatibilty

October 7, 2011
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I am waiting for RIM to unveil the next generation QNX devices (hopefully asap). Will BES 5.0 support QNX devices?  I would think not since they are not java based OS devices. Tasks such as performing an app push would not work but I heard their might be a “java player” in the QNX smartphones [...]

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Global Catalog (GC) referral issues and BES

October 1, 2011

Working with a customer where we see the ScanGal error message in the MAGT logs after a Global Catalog server was rebooted: [40210] (06/12 00:01:07.987):{0x2EDC} Failed to Resolve Name in ScanGAL. user: Tom Power, hResult: <8004010f> I checked the MAGT log to see what GC the messaging agents were using for name resolution: [30000] (06/12 [...]

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