Nope ... not going to reinvent the wheel here. KB10922 - Unable to establish an SRP connection because the SRP is disabled. Had to do some troubleshooting today and this is a good one that just got updated too! Just remember: TCP port 3101 only needs to be opened outbound, not inbound!

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<content> The Server Routing Protocol (SRP) is disconnected, and it remains disconnected even after restarting BlackBerry Enterprise...

I love support matrices ...

The Exchange Server Supportability Matrix from Microsoft hits all of these:

• Exchange 2000 through Exchange 2007
• Windows 2000 through Windows Server 2008
• Browser Support (IE / FF / Safari / etc)
• Client Support (Outlook / Windows Mobile / Entourage)
• .NET Framework
• PowerShell
• MMC
• Windows Installer

A good read, a great reference, and a new bookmark for me.

A friend sent me this ... in addition to a few chuckles I actually got a good understanding of AES: Moserware: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

For us BES Admins, we should definitely know 3DES / AES.

Jim McBee (Exchange MVP) posted a blog entry on a different free SMTP tester tool. For any of us that have jobs that rely on functioning email ... check it out.

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Do you want to remove BlackBerry information from the messaging server / BlackBerry Configuration Database? Yup, that question relates directly to this.

Taken from: KB16109 - What is the difference between a HARD and SOFT delete when deleting users ...

After deleting two BlackBerry smartphone users, the BlackBerry Manager logs shows the first BlackBerry smartphone user as HARD deleted while the other as SOFT deleted.

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