BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft¿ Exchange: Installation and Administration - Softcover

This book for IT professionals and network administrators describes installation, configuration and administration of BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, with detailed information on planning and implementing BlackBerry Enterprise Server deployment. It also provides background information on the BlackBerry architecture, security, and disaster recovery planning, picking up where the manufacturer's documentation leaves off. Written by mobile and wireless technology experts, its approach to setting up the server, provisioning users and devices, and implementing administrative techniques is straightforward. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform extends corporate messaging and collaboration services to BlackBerry devices, from the IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise messaging platforms as well as Microsoft Exchange. It supports management and administration of those devices, and also supports deployment of third-party applications to the BlackBerry device platform.

Elliot Smith has worked in IT since 1996, and currently works at Talis, as a software developer working on library systems. Prior to that, he worked at OpenAdvantage (an open-source solutions center) as a business analyst; as a learning technologist and web developer at the University of Birmingham, England; and as a technical writer for Armada Computer Publications. He has an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. His personal website is http://townx.org/. He thanks Nicola, his wife, for giving him the time and space to write a book; Madeleine, his daughter, for keeping him sane while doing it; and Rob Nichols for giving him the opportunity in the first place. Rob Nichols first started using computers during his apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce in the early 1980s. At 23 he decided to change direction and started a degree in Geology and Geography at Cardiff University. By 1995 he had gained a Ph.D. from Bristol University, studying the behavior of quicksand. During his time in Bristol and in a subsequent lectureship at Leeds University, he started using the fledgling Internet to communicate with co-workers, gather information, and present Geological information in the form of his first web pages. Following his return to Britain from a lectureship in U.S.P. Fiji, Rob found himself without another lectureship position to go on to. So, changing direction again, he started working for a U.K. computer manufacturer, where he rose to the position of Engineering Manager, managing a team of seventy maintenance and networking engineers, and support staff. Following the collapse of the U.K. computer market in 2002 he moved on to the role of IT manager for a small business providing products and services to the water industry. In this role, Rob has had great success developing intranet-based business applications that streamline business processes, save time, and increase efficiency. In so doing he has transformed the IT department from a business cost to a profit generator by reducing costs and thereby increasing margins. When not working with computers, Rob and his wife reside happily in a small Midlands town in England, where he writes scripts for the local movie-makers club, and photographs the local wildlife. For Diane, for putting up with my disappearances into the study to "work on the book".