Upgrading to BES 5.0 and want to do a database consolidation ??? ... you're not alone ... so RIM has built the BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter (BET).

Personally, I really dislike the idea of consolidating / changing databases due to the problems with RIM's previous product DBMerge ... but many people have been successful with the BET. So the BET is great, but there are some limits ... specifically that certain handheld OS versions can't handle the move.

As a part of...

For those that have upgraded to BES 5.0 and are knee deep into the new management interface; the BAS, you'll notice that when you perform your installation the server uses a self-signed SSL certificate for encrypting the HTTPS connections.

While it is easy enough to either add the certificate to the trusted store / trusted root (Internet Explorer) or create an exception (Firefox) for a machine or two; I find it a hassle and would rather use either a 3rd party signed certificate or a...