I created this document for my corporate Macintosh clients who require BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) sync compatibility.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Macintosh OS 10.3 or higher
• Compatible USB devices: 62xx/72xx/75xx/77xx81xx/83xx/87xx/88xx
• Compatible serial devices: 85x/95x/58xx/67xx - Requires: Keyspan | USB High Speed Serial Adapter

SOLUTIONS:

PocketMac Blackberry Sync - PocketMac 4.0 for BlackBerry

• Requires Mac OS 10.3 or higher, USB, Handheld OS 3.7.1.41 or Higher BIS account, Entourage, Address Book, iCal, iSync, Now Contact/Now Up to Date, Stickies, DayLite CRM
• Price: Free
• Limitations: No application loader

Apple BootCamp – Boot Camp

• Requires an Intel based Macintosh: Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini. Enables users to boot into a full Windows interface and sync with Microsoft Outlook, Notes and GroupWise.
• Price Free, Public Beta.
• Limitations: Can only boot into one OS at a time.

Parallels - Parallels Desktop for Mac

• Requires an Intel based Macintosh: Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Windows 2000 or Higher, Office 2000 or Higher and BlackBerry Desktop Manager. Enables users to use Windows, Linux, OS2 virtual machine interface in parallel with the Mac OS.
• Price: $79.00
• Limitations: Runing in a virtual environment.

DESKTOP REQUIREMENTS:

• Macintosh OS X 10.3 or higher (Price: $129.00 US) Apple - Mac OS X
• Microsoft Entourage (Address Book, Calendar, Notes, Tasks, POP3, IMAP and Exchange compatible – Price: $399.00 US part of Microsoft Office 2004) Office 2004
• Apple Mail (POP3, IMAP and Exchange compatible – Price: Free) Apple - Mac OS X - Mail
• Apple Address Book – (Price: Free) Apple - Mac OS X - Address Book
• Apple iCal (Price: Free) Apple
• Apple iSync (Price: Free) Apple
• Now Contact/Now Up to Date – (Price: $179.95 US) Now Software
• DayLite CRM – (Price: $149.00 - $1,295.00 US) Marketcircle : Daylite

MACINTOSH SUPPORTED EXCHANGE/BES HOSTS:

• eOutlook – Hosted Exchange – Exchange Hosting and Hosted Exchange Servers
• Mailstreet – MailStreet Exchange Hosting, Email Outsourcing using Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server,Outsource Corporate Email
• Link2Exchange – Link2Exchange - Hosted Exchange 2003, Business, Personal, Wireless
• Mi8 – Mi8: Exchange Hosting & SharePoint Hosting
• Intermedia – Exchange hosting and Web hosting from Intermedia.NET
• Lanlogic – Lanlogic real people real solutions

Entourage 2004 Exchange Server Setup

• Microft Entourage 2004 Exchange Server Setup

I wish someone would create one with a loader :(
I am sick of turning on the old laptop just to load random applications.

I've done a fair amount of work with PocketMac solutions over the years from what I hear it's in the works for a future release. Possibly the next I hope?

Do you know how to use Blackberry as a modem for a Powerbook?

Funny you should ask I just got a 7290 I let you know how I make out...

I've got the 7520 I'm using with Pocket Mac and my Powerbook G4. It works great, with the usb cable

The 7520 has Bluetooth..... I'd love to be able to sync it through bluetooth and/or use the 7520 as a modem/nic for the over the air access, using bluetooth.

Has anyone tried this? What settings are you using.

I'll keep experimenting, if I discover anything I'll post.

I have been trying to sync my email with my Mac via PocketMac, it does not work.

Does anyone have any solutions?

thanks.

Michael

PocketMac syncs Cal, Contacts, Notes, Tasks etc. not email.

So if you switch your mail client to Entourage you will be able to sync your email right?

No, I think the only way to sync email is if your connected to a BES.

Have not tried that option, regarding Entourage. But I read somewhere that some users have tried and it does not sync using PocketMac. However, i read the M$ website that there a way to sync entourage to an exchange server, thus if that is possible, theorically speaking you could sync it via BES OTA. Any comments?

Michael

With PocketMac no, you may want to look at SyncAgain from EPICAD www.epicad.com that might do the trick?

Thanks. I have looked at them, but am waiting for standalone version to come out.

I sync with Entourage on my Powerbook using pocket mac. It does not synch email at all but if you have your webclient set up or a BES server account ithe mail syncs pretty well over the air. (Webclient only syncs new mail comming in to the pop 3 server.)

Complete newbie here and new owner of my first personal (e.g not work issued) Blackberry - T Mobile 7730 for use with a Mac and Entourage. Understand that I will need a product like PocketMac® For BlackBerry®

What about initial setup of the Blackberry and subsequent "customization" using the Blackberry Desktop Software. For example, I understand that the only way to eliminate the "Sent from my Blackberry Wireless" automatic signature is by using the desktop software.

My questions - Will PocketMac For BlackBerry allow such customization? Or, must I first "set up" my Blackberry using a Windows machine (which I hate) and then reconnect my Blackberry to my Mac and synch using Pocketmac?

Many thanks and hope to be a frequent user of this board for tips, tricks and other ideas.

js7730
PROUD new owner (addict?)

since upgrading to os 4.0 when i sync tasks with ical the due dates are always lost (so i have to go back into ical to do items and reload all the dates) on both the desktop and blacberry. they only stay when they agree beforehand - if i change somthing on the handset it gets lost when i sync.

any ideas how to fix this?

I'm dying to have Pocketmac be able to sync your sent email with your entourage sent folder!!!! I also want a installer option, to be able to install using Pocketmac!!!

Macman, long live the Mac!!

How about installing applications using Virtual PC and Desktop Manager? I'm trying to do it, but I can't get Desktop Manager to recognize the handheld (USB), although it does register in Virtual PC's settings list. (VPC 7.01 and Win XP pro).

Unfortunately its a no go, although VPC does see the BB device the desktop manager with VPC will not recognize it? Fiddle all you like it just doesn't seem to work.

After doing some reading on the Virtual PC forum I found that (quoting):

Virtual PC does NOT recognize USB driver 2.0....only USB 1.1

IF your device uses USB 2.0 driver ONLY and is not backward compatible to
USB 1.1, then VPC will do one of two things:
1. It will report your device as an unknown USB device
2. It will show your device in USB settings but will not communicate with
it.

In order to get any of these devices to work, you will need to use USB
driver 1.1 exclusively.

So, I'm guessing that the USB driver that comes with Desktop Manager for Win XP is 2.0. This would also explain why some people were able to get some USB devices to work in earlier versions of VPC running in Mac OS 9, but not in VPC 7 under OS X 10.3.

The big question remains... is there any way to install applications (or upgrade the BlackBerry software itself) on a Mac?

No.

No!

Pocketmac is working on it but it's not out yet.

Can you explain details please? Email account set-up, sync over the air (is it long? can you explain the BES server synching?). I am a newbie with a new BB 7100. I am using Entourage 2004 with a POP3 account (not using Server Exchange). My company has the BES running (not version 4.0, but 3.something) in the UK (Vodaphone). I am in Canada (Rogers Wireless).

Thanks in advance.

Still no loader? This stinks!

Three questions:
I synch my BB7730 (T-Mobile Service, not using BES) with my PoweBook MS Entourage contacts, notes and calendar.
If I rigged up a PC (with USB 1.1 or 2.0 - you tell me)
1) What software would I need to upload software to my BB7730?
2) Would my connection of BB7730 to the PC and subsequent upload of software erase or muck up my synch'ed contacts, notes and calendar entries? If yes, is there a way to prevent this from occuring?
3) Is it worth it? Are there programs worth uploading to a BB7730?

OK, so that's more than three.

As it stands for software the majority of requested apps available for the Blackberry are availabe via OTA (Over the Air) download. The only thing you require the PC for at this point I find as a Mac user would be to preform an OS update. As for syncing shouldn't have an issue I sync with my PC at the office Sony Vaio (TR) and my Mac (Mini) at home.

I agree, most apps are available OTA (or you can make them available OTA using the built in Apache web server). The only thing that's annoying me at the moment on a Mac is not being able to load MobiPocket ebooks without a PC - anyone had any success?

I am a new user of Blackberry and have purchased PocketMac...initially it worked fairly well and I was able to sync my address book. Then when I went to resync after adding more address in my computer's Address Book I started getting double and triple entries on the Blackberry.

I know that it is a two way sync and that the Blackberry updates the address book, but it is doubling and tripling the address book entries as well...

anyone have the same problem?

Is epicad better?

THANK YOU!

John

I use a mac (among several linux boxes) at work and another one at home. What would I need to get my Blackberry and both macs to sync all PIM content (ie. email, calendars, todos, etc...)?

From my research, it seems that if I setup BES & Exchange in my company, then we would have to use Entourage to sync with Exchange, and thus would sync with our Blackberries.. or can we still do this with the regular applications (Mail, iCal, AddressBook, Notes, etc.)? It appears that PocketMac and EPICAD may not be necessary?

Thanks in advance,

kjohn

Yes you could set up Exchange and BES. You can then use Entourage (or mail.app and iCal) to access Exchange and wirelessly sync with your BB (using BES 4.0).

You could use an exchange / BES hosting service that would save you some cash and time (search this site for some recomendations).

What I do, is use .Mac to sync my calendar / todo / address book and PocketMac to sync to my BB. That way all my Macs and BB are kept up to date. My email is on IMAP servers so I use BIS to collect and redirect to my phone. The only downside of this is that my BB email is not in sync with my IMAP servers (it's just downloaded to the BB, not synced e.g. if I delete or read something on my BB, that's not reflected in my IMAP mail). I believe that the new version of BIS (used by T-mobile) may fix this.

You might go looking for repair outlook and data email recovery. I have been using it without problem since it came out.

Has anyone toyed with PocketMac using a Nextel BlackBerry, Entourage and BES?

PocketMac tells me the default mapping puts Nextel Direct Connect numbers in the "Home 2" field in Entourage.

This puts me in a pickle for a couple of reasons. First, I am about to connect my Entourage to our Exchange server. Well, Outlook HAS a field called "Radio" that syncs wirelessly via our BES and picks up my DC numbers. If I connect Entourage to our Exchange server, it's going to get confused and have a double entry for the DC numbers.

You can't modify the mapping for the sync from Entourage to Exchange, right? What if I created a custom field in Entourage called "Radio", will the Exchange sync pick up on this?

I don't want to experiment, because I've lost a whole batch of DC numbers messing around before.

I don't have a problem letting the BES do all my sync work wirelessly--just as long as Entourage syncs with it correctly. There's not a pressing need for the PocketMac sync if I can do it wirelessly. And with the DC numbers, it aint going to as of yet.

Surely there's a work around...

I know there are explanations of my question out there somewhere, in bits and pieces, but can someone please take the time to give me a direct answer on how to do this, if possible?

I have a Mac, and I prefer Address Book/iCal/Mail over Entourage. I will be getting a BB 8700 from Cingular soon. I need to be able to have the BB and my iCal/Address Book/Mail all synced at all times. Is this possible? If so, how? I have a hosted Exchange account with 1and1.com, but I don't use it right now. Can I have all 5 of my email addresses forwarded to the Exchange account, which will sync with the BB, then just set up the BB with all accounts plus the Exchange accout so when composing or replying I can send from accounts other than the one Exchange account? Is there a better solution?

Secondly, how can I sync my Address Book/iCal with the BB through Exchange? Or is it not possible?

Lastly, why the hell doesn't Apple just come up with a version of .Mac that allows total syncing like Exchange does???

Thanks in advance for your help.

Marc

You have to use Entourage.

I just got an 8700c and am using Pocket Mac but am experiencing some really weird behavior syncing my calendar for which I use iCal. (As an aside I use the mac Address book and it seems to sync fine).

Here are some things that happen:

-existing all day/no time events (the ones that appear at the top of a day with a little bullet) on the mac get turned into literally all day events which run from midnight to midnigh once they're sync'd to the BB

-new all day events (bullets) entered on the BB get sync'd to the *prior* day on the mac

Any thoughts?

TIA.
TM

I've heard a bunch of people say Pocket Mac has caused them a lot of address book problems... IF you can even get it to work. It's amazing that the only product in this category is said to be so bad it's usable.

Any Mac developers listening??

Also new to BB. I just got the 7130e and installed PocketMac 4.0 on my power book using Entourage 2004 and experiencing the same thing - with a twist. Some contacts duplicate while others do not. The duplicated are a mess of information - original, parts of orginal, and extra info repeated over and over from original. Then this is all copied onto my bb. It also tries to delete ALL of my calendar appointments/settings and I have to click 'restore all'.

Anyone know what to?!

I use Ical and when i enter my info into ical and sync with my bb(using pocketmac) the times get messed up i.e. i enter 8am appt and then sync and get 3pm appt.
anybody have any clues?