BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)

RIM is reporting an issue with a new feature in Exchange 2010 SP2.  The feature concerns the implementation of Address Book Policies which provides Global Address List (GAL) segmentation and customization of the GAL in Outlook and OWA.  When performing an address lookup from the BlackBerry, BES cannot filter based on Address Book Policies since the service account [...]

On December 5, 2011, MS released SP2 for Exchange 2010.   RIM still has not updated their Compatibility Matrix but the new MAPI/CDO release last week was probably in response to SP2 for Exchange 2010 release. I will update this post if there are reported issues with BES and Exchange 2010 SP2.

A few days ago Microsoft released a new version of MAPI/CDO.   The version number is 6.5.8244.0.  I have not seen any RIM Knowledge Based articles concerning this new version of MAPI/CDO nor has the Compatibility Matrix for MS Exchange  has been updated with the new version.   I will keep you posted.

Working with a customer who had an issue with message flow.  The messaging agents crashed reporting error code 5402.  In addition the MAGT logs were reporting the following error message: [10000] (11/08 14:04:29.549):{0×178} i64GetConn: COM Error 0×80004005 – Unspecified error – Source: “Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server” – Description “Login timeout expired” – [...]

Here is a great summary of articles for using MFCMapi from MAPI Internals blog.  Under Third Party application Support, my blog was listed under Using MFCMapi for email reconciliation issues.

I am working with a customer, Company A, who recently acquired another company, Company D.  Company A has a multi-domain forest and within the domain there is forest containing BES and Exchange.  The acquired company has there own single domain forest with a domain controller and AD accounts.  There is a two-way forest trust between [...]

Steve Griffin recently posted the new Server MAPI/CDO download on his blog.  This new version of MAPI/CDO coincided with RIM’s release of MR4 BES 5.0.2.  The only fix in the MR 4 release was the following under BlackBerry Messaging Agent: *In a Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment with a lot of activity, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server [...]

From SGriffin’s Blog there is a new release of MFCMapi. There is a new command line utility called MrMAPI which includes Property tag lookup and SmartView parsing.

Here is the BlackBerry KB to check DST readiness: KB24267

On SGriffin’s MAPI Internals Blog, he reported the emsmdb32 hang the new MAPI CDO 1.2.1 package fixes which causes Calhelper to consume CPU on BES.