I was recently working with a friend who was building a new BES 5 environment / migrating from 4.x and had more than 200 CAL's that needed to be added to the database.

Adding through the BAS is a "one at a time" approach with no easy way to do the import ... but as we all know the keys are all stored in the BlackBerry Configuration Database (BESMgmt) in the licensekeys table. So we'd just add the data to the table in question, right? Well ... kinda.

I was...

I'd like to make this a living / work in progress entry and would really like feedback for when y'all wipe your device.

Personally I hate having to wipe a device. The only time I wipe is when I'm upgrading the OS and I absolutely hate it, because I then need to reconfigure all the poorly written applications I use as a restore doesn't restore their configuration settings.

But sometimes there are valid reasons to wipe a device. Here are a few I've collected:
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I tell ya folks you mean to go away for a few days and it turns into several weeks.

Buying a house, moving 1000 miles away (still in progress), a busy job that you love, oh and WES puts a thorn in trying to keep the blog up to date.

Well ... lets see if I can keep on track for now.

For your tidbit of info today I'll pass on something I learned from a good friend that knows how to make (he roasts his own beans too) a mean cup of coffee.

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So I figured I'd start a little wish list of things I wish I could do with BES, but can't ... please add on whatever yours are. Perhaps it is possible and you just don't know about it!

• The ability to identify when a call is dropped / ended prematurely. Sure we can get call log info, but what about reporting back to carriers lots of dropped calls ... especially for a particular user
• The ability to restart a single messaging agent. When a single agent gets hung / stopped the only supported

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ok ok ok everyone posted yesterday about the availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Edition. I previously mentioned some info about the impending release but lets dive a little deeper ...

First off, remember that BES Express is effectively BPS 5.0. You'll get most of the base functionality that BES touts, but expect some limitations. Just like BPS never got past SP4 of 4.1, expect there to be limited functionality going forward. Yes you're getting BES ... but you're...