These are questions you should be asking Blackberry's pre-sales team.

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> We want to be able to synchronize contacts, appointments etc
> made in our Outlooks to our Blackberries without having to
> connect to a PC. So if a secretary makes an entry in someone's
> Outlook it will be automatically synched to that person's Blackberry.
> From what I understand we need BES 4.0 for Exchange to accomplish this.
>
> Right now we have a single Windows 2003 server which is also Exchange 2003
> server, DNS server, file server and backup server.
>
> My questions are as follows:
> 1. In the setup guide it states that SQL server needs to be installed on
> the
> BES itself.
> I understand that I don't actually need to install SQL server and that
> the setup will isntall
> it's own basic SQL server program. Is that correct?
> 2. It's a very decent server with 1 GB of RAM and mirrored drives but I'm
> still concerned that
> it may not be able to handle all of this. How resource intensive is the
> BES? We will have maybe a
> dozen of people using it (BES) at any one time.
> 3. I still don't fully understand how BES is supposed to work. I will
> install it on the same
> machine as Exchange server and it will work with Exchange to somehow
> relay the information to the outside
> of our network to the T-Mobile/Cingular etc? and from there to the
> blackberries? Wouldn't that
> be pretty much how it all works now? A Blackberry connects to T-Mobile
> mail server which is in turn
> configured to get mail messages from the accounts that I specify
> (located
> on our mail server?)
> 4. In the install manual it says that Outlook must be uninstalled on BES.
> Is that a critical requirement?
> What are the consequences of keeping Outlook on the server.
>
> Thank you all very much
>
>