My Boss wants a Spare BB, any idea how I can setup two BB's on the same email account

[Shaddix]

We're running our own Exchange server, and pushing emails with BES. We've got a bunch of 8300's and 8700c's. I'm the I.T. Manager.

Here's the scenario. The boss (uber-rich millionaire-type) wants a second bb setup on his email account. The second BB needs to be up and running at all times, so if he forgets his BB in the car, he's got a spare BB waiting for him on the plane.

I called RIM, and they said they dont support 2 BB's on the same email account.

My first thought was to forward all his incoming email and sent mail to a second email account, then setup the Spare BB to check that email account. The problem is, it wont be perfect. The spare wont show read vs unread, and wont stay synced with the original account...

Any ideas?

[DarkWater]

Well, RIM is entirely correct on this. At least you can't have two handhelds on the same account through a BES.

BES:BB:Mailbox is a 1:1:1

Now you should be able to have the second handheld getting email through BIS. Little better than forwarding, but likely won't get the reconciliation like you would on a BES.

[vincentnyc]

if exchange server support bis also. set up 1 bb on the bes and set up the other on the bis. u can thank me now.

[takeshi]

There's no good way to have two BB's up and running like this. Setting up the second with BIS via OWA is probably your best bet.

[bertiebassett]

if exchange server support bis also. set up 1 bb on the bes and set up the other on the bis. u can thank me now.

well in theory that works but in practice "rich millionaire guy" is just going to do his nuts when you tell hime..ah but that device is on BIS so erm..

1) you can't do lookups

2) you can't do intranet

3) you can't do effective support for him

4) you can't kill it and wipe data when he loses it.

5) and when he deletes someting on the BIS device - he'll have to delete it again on outlook

[LarryH]

well in theory that works but in practice "rich millionaire guy" is just going to do his nuts when you tell hime..ah but that device is on BIS so erm..
This YouTube video might help. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M2Gq_Ai9gQ)