Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0 Supports Exchange 2010

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Blackberry Overview

Users can download the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) free from the Server Downloads website of Research In Motion (RIM). Nearly 2 weeks ago, RIM launched BES 5.0 SP1 for both Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino.

Initially, BES 5.0 SP1 supports Microsoft's IE8 web browser, supporting languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian. BES 5.0 SP1 MR1 is also compatible with the software: IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1; VMware ESX 2.52 to vSphere 4.0; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express; DBNS for Windows Server 2008; NTLM v2 authentication protocol.

RIM also released a patch for serious security holes in the PDF Distiller component of BES BlackBerry Attachment Service. More information about BES and BES for Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available on RIM's website.