Steps to create (add) the account on Blackberry Enterprise Service 10 (BDS).

1. Logon to Blackberry Adminstration Console (Blackberry Device Service)

2. On the left pane, locate "Profiles" and expand

3. Click on "Create an Email Profile"

4. Enter the Person Name in the "Name" text box and select the "Type" as "Active Sync" (only one option)

5.Click on Continue and Enter your "Server Name" (in my case it is CAS array name)

6. Click on "Save" at the bottom of the wizard.

7. Now Expand User menu in the left pane and Click on Create

8. Search for the User and Add the user similar to the BES 5.0 process

9. Click the User and navigate the Email profile tab and select the Email profile created.

Once you finish the above steps, you can activate the BB account on a Blackberry 10 device.Follow the below steps to activate the Blackberry account on device.

Steps to activate the account on Blackberry 10 device.

1.On the home screen, Open “Settings"

2.Open Accounts

3.Tap on Add Account

4.Tap on ‘Email, Calendar and Contacts’ options

5.Enter the email address username@your_domain.com and tap on ‘Next’

6.On the next screen Enter the Activation Password provided by IT Administrator

7.The device will ask for the “Work” password, only applicable to access your business applications. Enter password for e.g. ‘bbpwd’ and tap ‘Next’

Note – Work password needs to be provided to open the Business Emails and Applications only. So do not select device password option, and if you select to set is as device password then you will have to provide this password each time when you unlock your Blackberry device.

The activation process will now configure your work profile on Blackberry device by contacting the server policies.

8.Next screen Enter your business email password (Your Company email Password) and tap Save

The process of activating your device is finished now. The device will now start syncing with server for data and the sync process can take several minutes depends on the server data and the internet connection speed of your device.

 Hope it helped you to activate your first Blackberry Enteprise Service account on your Blackberry Device.

-Praveen

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In BES 10, RIM has come up with 3 main modules.

BlackBerry Device Service
Universal Device Service
BlackBerry Management Studio

There is an order in which you should install these modules on a single server. The help document provide a good insight about all these, I recomend you to go through this small documentation before you introduce your Blackberry Enterprise Services10 on your infrastrucure.

Installing BlackBerry Device Service, Universal Device Service, and BlackBerry Management Studio on the same host server

BlackBerry Management Studio 6.4 - Installation and Upgrade Guide
BlackBerry Device Service 6.2 - Installation and Configuration Guide
Universal Device Service 6.2.1 - Installation and Configuration Guide

I was successful in installing all the above modules on a single server, and will be posting article about that soon.

-Praveen

This issue looks to have some relation with earlier reported meeting hijacking, as it has turned out to be happening when Apple users process their calendar updates using their iPAD or iPhone.

Need to know more, read the following blogs,

Rapid growth in transaction logs, CPU use, and memory consumption in Exchange Server 2010 when a user syncs a mailbox by using an iOS 6.1-based device

Apple iOS 6.1 upgrades result in excessive transaction log growth

Request the users not to update the new version until Apple and MS are coming up with a fix.

Update: (14- Feb-2013)

Apple has acknowledge the bug, iOS 6.1: Excess Exchange activity after accepting an exception to recurring calendar event

When you respond to an exception to a recurring calendar event with a Microsoft Exchange account on a device running iOS 6.1, the device may begin to generate excessive communication with Microsoft Exchange Server, they also have suggested a workaround,

Resolution
Apple has identified a fix and will make it available in an upcoming software update. In the meantime, you can avoid this bug by not responding to an exception to a recurring event on your iOS device. If you do experience the symptoms described above, disable then reenable the Exchange calendar on your iOS device using the steps below.

1. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
2. Select the Exchange account from your Accounts list.
3. Turn the switch for Calendars to OFF.
4. Wait ten seconds.
5. Turn the switch for Calendars back to ON.

Hope this helps.

Update: (19 - Feb - 2013)

iOS 6.1.2 Software Update

Fixes an Exchange calendar bug that could result in increased network activity

-Praveen

Download Link:- Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2746164)

Download Link:-  Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2788321)

These update mainly includes fixes for the customer reported problems, read more on Exchange Team Blog.

-Praveen

Download - Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Main attraction of this service pack are,

- Coexistence with Exchange 2013: - As we know, there are some pre-requisites to introduce Exchange Server 2013 to our existing Exchange Server 2010 infra, which is shipped with this update.

- Support for Windows Server 2012: - Now with SP3, we can install Exchange Server 2010 on a Windows Server 2012 operating system.

Additionally,

Support for IE10 and Customer Reported Issues.

To know more, please read the release notes and Exchange Team Blog.

-Praveen

1. Dismount the Public Folder (if the public folder is heavily used, select an off peak time to ensure lesser changes to PF)
2. Copy the Public Folder Database and Logs to the new server
3. Do a recovery installation of server to new hardware, follow Recovery Installation of a DAG Member with Multi Roles – Exchange Server 2010
4. Ensure that the Copied public folder is at the right location, and mount the database

You may follow the same procedure if you wish to do the recovery installation of Exchange Server 2010 server,

The process is as easy as mentioned, and can be opted for smaller organization without having much of issues. Only drawback is, the public folder will not be available during the recovery installation time. If you plan well, the downtime will be lesser than an hour.

-Praveen

The database size and transaction logs growth was unacceptably high due to few users’ outlook client. I observed ~30GB logs generated because of 2 users, and the database is also grown about 25 GB in a time span of 8 hours without any reason.

Cause:

When I identified the users and clients (used Exchange User Monitor), it is observed that all the client versions are outlook 2010 original version (without any service pack), have mentioned it below.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 OUTLOOK.exe   14.0.4760.1000; I also observed that most of them were in Online mode with exchange.

Workaround:

To quickly work around this issue, all you need to create a new outlook profile for the user.

To plan the migration better, you must install the latest service pack for outlook (at least SP1) as I have not seen this issue with the SP1 version. I also have observed many migration issues with cache mode profile are also fixed with SP1.

How do you Identify the users:

Simply use the Exchange User Monitor. Download it here, and configure it by following Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor

-Praveen

• Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2
• Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-080 - Critical which covers all the three updates, and as stated it is security updates and hence available thorugh the windows update list.

For more details about UR5-v2 of Exchange 2010 SP2, please refer Description of Update Rollup 5 version 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

Ref - Released: Update Rollup 5 v2 for Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange 2010 SP1 RU8 and Exchange 2007 SP3 RU9

-Praveen

Download your copy of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Help.

The link above contains to files, one is "Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Hybrid Deployments" and the other is "Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013".

You may also download the Exchange 2013 UM Language Packs

-Praveen

According to the available information, the general availability of these products will be by Q1 of year 2013, more specifically by end of January 2013.

-Praveen