my IT experiences
This post is for anyone that has to deploy blackberry to users in a company and are subscribed to only a blackberry BIS data plan. Typically, you would need to install appworld, then assign a blackberry ID to the berry. If this is a corporate berry, then it will take a lot of time doing this individually. Here you go, from your blackberry browser, click on the link below and install RIMs application – Enterprise Activation.
This can only be done via OTA download and install the app.
New installation of BES-X on SBS 2003 Server.
Installation all went through OK, however cannot administer the BES-X server as IE admin page blank.
Discovered the The BlackBerry Administration Service – Application Server service keeps failing.
It will start and chew up lots of CPU time & memory but then stop after approx. 1 minute, (BAS-AS.exe will disappear from task manager).
Event Viewer says:
The BlackBerry Administration Service – Application Server service terminated unexpectedly.
BBAS-AS logs mention these which may be of note:
[WARN] Problem starting service jboss:service=RIM_BES_BAS_HA_33879984_SBSSVR
org.jgroups.ChannelException: failed to start protocol stack (03/30 12:39:17:843):{main} [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] [WARN] Problem starting service jboss.cache:service=EJB3EntityTreeCache
org.jgroups.ChannelException: failed to start protocol stack
Resolution:
Although I have found four or five different issues that can cause this, the resolutuion below was hardly documented anywhere on the internet.
I got this working by going into the registry and reserving the following ports: 48858, 48857, 48855, 45588, 49955, 45599
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Right-click ReservedPorts, and then click Modify.
Paste the following at the bottom
1433-1434
3443-3443
4070-4071
48855-48858
45588-45588
49955-49955
45599-45599
Restart the server
I found this after a complete uninstall and reinstall of Blackberry Enterprise Express 5.0.2.
I have built a new server on VMWare to accommodate the new Blackberry Enterprise Server Express 5.0.1 that was just recently released. I was quite ecstatic to hear RIM was giving this up for free. Since I had a 5 CAL license for Windows 2003 Small Business Server, I setup this on my VM, which also included Exchange Server 2003. Setup was easy, did all the updates to this ancient OS. Then setup the BESX on the same server. Since I only plan to host personal/SOHO domain, this is totally acceptable. Blackberry suggests I can have upto 75 users on this server. The server itself is pretty decent – Xeon, 4GB ECC Ram, Raid5.
Blackberry has this great video tutorial that shows how to set the BESX up in a jiffy.
you can view the video here
Going forward, I had redirected my domains email to the exchange server, this entailed me to purchase anti spam software as it was getting ridiculous with out it.
What I decided to do is activate POP3 Connector which comes with the SBS 2003 OS. The downside was that it only polls every 15 minimum. Boo! Doesnt that defeat having push email to the blackberry?
Well I found a reg edit hack that will accelerate the polling.
You can set the polling interval in the GUI if you view the properties of
the POP3 Connector Manager, and then click the “Scheduling” tab. To set the
polling interval so that polling occurs more frequently than every 15
minutes, you must configure the ScheduleAccelerator registry entry.
1. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\POP3
Connector”
2. On the “Edit” menu, point to “New”, and then click “DWORD Value”.
3. Type “ScheduleAccelerator” (without the quotation marks) as the entry
name, and then press ENTER.
5. On the “Edit” menu, click “Modify”.
6. In the “Value data” box, click decimal, type the value that you want, and then click
“OK”. To determine the polling interval, the value that is configured on the
“Scheduling” tab in the GUI is divided by the value that you type for the
ScheduleAccelerator entry. For example, if a 15 minute interval is specified
in the GUI and you set the value of the ScheduleAccelerator entry to 3, the
connector will poll ever five minutes.
7. Quit Registry Editor