I have MS sbs 2003 server with exchange. My wife has just bought a Blackberry Pearl 8100 and wants to receive her email from the server. I know nothing about blackberry, all the info I have read appears to talk about a blackberry enterprise server, not my exchange server. Can any kind person give me some info about connecting to my sbs server?
Thanks in advance
Piano Man

Did you sign up for Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) or Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES). For a small business, BIS is the way to go. If you can access your email through the web, using outlook exchange website (www.companyname.com/exchange), BIS will work. You can configure it on the handset or throught your carrier's BIS website.

BES means you have to host a BES server, not a good option for a small busness.

There's also an option called BES Express (?) that is a much lower starting price than full BES, sorry I can't give you much for details but that's a starting point at least.

Yes, it's called BES Express and it's free for one user (ie. one PIN). See here for details:

BlackBerry

Svines, thanks for the link. I am the only Berry user in my company and this might be the answer to my prayers. I am assuming this is essentially a full fledged version of BES, just a one user license.

Yes, as far as I'm aware it's full-fledged BES and comes with all the functionality that you would get by purchasing BES. The biggest difference is that you can only purchase and install a max of 15 licences.

Before racing ahead and installing BES on SBS2003 think !

Is there enough memory, and disk space.

You may need to limit the BlackBerry default logging.

Check the permissions settings, these should be documented. Personally I have installed BES for SBS2003 on a separate machine. This keeps the SBS2003 clean, remember re-boots will bring the whole of SBS 2003 down.