We just installed BES 4.1 Small Business Edition on a Win2k3 box. Install went fine.

I activated my phone and it got through approx 97% of the registration and then it failed. Looks like it failed on the contacts. So now I try to re-register and I get the error msg "erroro occured, please contact your administration". I'm not the admin but trying to troubleshoot on my end before I go to him.

I did just uninstall Notify which is another 3rd party "synch" software so wondering if that is getting in the way.

Any suggestions? Blow it away and start from scratch?

SGM-CO

Have you generated a new activation password? You can only use them once.

I haven't generated another password. Is that something my administrator has to do?

Yuck. 4.1. Welcome to SMS and PIN logging....
;)

Check your sync settings on your profile to see if that is correct. Delete the Service Book Desktop [SYNC],re-Generate a new password, and try to re-activate the device.

Not sure what you mean by checking my sync settings on my profile. Is a administrator issue?

go into Options > Service Book. Are there any entries in there? A fully functional BlackBerry on a 4.1 BES should have at least the following:
Desktop [CMIME] <-- Used for email
Desktop [IPPP] <-- Used for MDS browsing
Desktop [CICAL] <-- Used for wireless calendar sync
Desktop [SYNC] <-- Used for all other wireless sync
Desktop [ALP] <-- Used for GAL lookups

If you have all of these, then the only thing that went wrong is the initial sync. you can kick that off again by highlighting the Desktop [SYNC] service book, click the thumb wheel and choose delete. Once gone, click the thumbwheel again and choose Undelete. This will kick off all the initial synchronizing again.

If you do not have any of these service books, call your IT admin and ask them to set an Enterprise Activation password for you again and go through the activation again.

Zro

We got through the activiation issue and not sure what resolved it. Now have a few other problems, but our IT team is researching.

Thanks for your assistance!

FYI: There is no need to generate new encryption keys when you have a handheld with a valid encryption key.
Need to slow sync->delete the Desktop [Sync] service book, then click and "undelete"
Need to re-EA, go into Options->Enterprise Activation, type alt-cnfg and set wireless to "no," click in and save. Then, go back to alt-cnfg and set wireless to "yes" and click in and save. This will kick off the whole process.

The password process is to negotiate encryption. Also...if you're getting to 97%, then you're way past the process of needing a password. You should look into where you're really getting hung up...is it a large address book? Task?...something unforseen?...

Problem resolved.

Thanks
SGM-CO