Comments on: Making Groupwise 7 and Blackberry Enterprise Server Communicate

By: Ian Wright

Ian Wright — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:17:57 +0000

Hi,

I also had difficulties installing the BES into our Groupwise
system, I had all these issues and more, I have been left
with one final issue, our Groupwise Document Management
attachments will not deliver to the Blackberry as the internal
attachment is only a link to the DMS BLOB file, RIM say they
have written a number of distillers but none to provide
a snapshot of the BLOB for the BE Server, one other point
is RIM say that communication between the BES and the primary Server is the only connection required this is false
as the client requests an IP Address from the Server translation table for BES redirection to secondary domains.
I needed to perform all sorts of routing to allow the internet provider sticky DHCP Gateway to co-exist with a second gateway connected to a MPLS WAN.This Blackberry Server
is a crude manipulation of client API’s, Novell would normally
have written a Server agent to perform such a function on a TRIO, but for some strange reason Blackberries are popular.

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By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:44:44 +0000

Ronb-

See http://thebackroomtech.com/2008/09/23/howto-use-the-use-trusted-app-utility-to-verify-trusted-applications-and-their-keys-can-login-to-groupwise-post-offices/ with details on how to use a utility to verify the trusted app is working.

You can also see http://thebackroomtech.com/2008/11/14/howto-remove-a-groupwise-email-message-using-imap-telnet-and-a-trusted-application/ which details how to use telnet to connect to a post office using the trusted app’s key.

-Julie

By: Ronb

Ronb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:13:15 +0000

So how do verify comm between GW and BES? Is it enough to have the address book load? I can load it manually but get a GWConnector error as an event.

Also how do you verify the trusted app is working?

Thanks.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:24:22 +0000

Martin-

I used whatever MDAC files that were pushed down from Microsoft update. I don’t think it was an issue.

-Julie

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:23:47 +0000

Julie,

Did you have to worry about the MDAC files versions, or did
you use the default that are included in 2k3 server

Martin

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:52:42 +0000

Thanks! That’s exactly what I needed to know.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:49:20 +0000

Shawn,

I had to change it to 6.5

- Julie

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:41:32 +0000

When you installed it to the server using the 6.5 client, did you keep the BES setting for Groupwise 7 or change it to 6.5?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:45:45 +0000

Not an easy install by any measure. It is a pain getting everything to work properly. You saved yourself with your last paragraph…. Reading up on your installs before proceeding.

BTW, if you flip the 2K3 server to term services AFTER the BES install, it will work.