Anyone else notice this? Every major platform (that I deal with) is getting an upgrade or going through a revolution. Sorry, I don't work much at all with Symbian.

BlackBerry OS 6

Apple iPhone 4.0

HP purchasing Palm

Android 2.2

Windows Phone 7

So what are y'all waiting for?

A friend of mine wanted to take two scripts he had:

1. Obtained device free handheld memory
2. Grabbed some user info from various tables (Name, email address, BES, Mode, OS Version, Password status (enabled / disabled) IT Policy name & applied time)

and wanted them combined into a single query. The difficult thing is that to get free handheld memory you need to do some converting and parsing of data from the SyncDeviceMgmt table in the BlackBerry Configuration Database.

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Henrik Walther is putting together a multi-part blog series on Eliminating Traditional Backups using native Exchange 2010 Functionality.

Exchange 2007 was a huge change / improvement / whatever you'd like to call it to the messaging and collaboration world, but don't think Exchange 2010 isn't equally as awesome.

I'll keep you up to date on what Henrik says and expect to see a bunch of content from me on how BES + Exchange 2010 = a better world for us BlackBerry Enterprise...

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 think the title says it all ... but seriously OtterBox is the way to go.

I got a BlackBerry Bold 9700 Commuter Series Case at WES (just by going to the booth and asking politely) and I wasn't sure if I would actually use it ... but it was swag and I wanted one.

I got the case put the screen protector and 2 part case on the device and haven't looked back. Having used a Bold 9000 for year and then going to the 9700 it was a bit of an adjustment from the big device...