EditSummary
Present day, if your BlackBerry Handheld is connected to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) (BlackBerry Enterprise Server), you can send a message from the device and literally watch it appear in your Sent Items in Microsoft Outlook in a few seconds. This is impressive because this exact functionality was available in April of 1999 on the first BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Below is a brief description of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Releases.
EditTimeline
Below is an approximate BlackBerry Enterprise Server Timeline.
EditJuly 2008
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP6 released. Added Support for the following:
- Document Editing when client OS is 4.5 or higher
EditApril 2008
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP5 released.
EditJune 2007
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP4 released.
EditApril 2007
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP7 released. Maintenance release. Functional changes as follows:
- Improved Logging
- Easier configuration of inbound and outbound TCPIP ports for SRP connection
EditJanuary 2007
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP3 released.
EditNovember 2006
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP6 released. Maintenance release, Still searching for release notes.
EditSeptember 2006
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP2 released.
- Redesigned Management Interface. Handheld Manager and BES Manager now integrated into a single tool
EditJuly 2006
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP5 released. Maintenance release, Still searching for release notes.
EditMarch 2006
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 released.
- Redesigned Management Interface. Handheld Manager and BES Manager now integrated into a single tool
EditFebruary 2006
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP4 released. Maintenance release, Still searching for release notes.
EditOctober 2005
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP3 released. Maintenance release, no significant new features.
EditJuly 2005
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP2 released. New features:
- Added Support for special time zones not supported by CDO
- Added tracking of MAPI calls to the Microsoft Exchange Server and MAPI statistics to the BlackBerry® Messaging Agent log
- Added ability to turn on JavaScript™, style sheets, and HTML tables in the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service browser via BES IT Policy.
- Added support to parse WML in accordance with WAP-WML version 1.3 specifications.
EditApril 2005
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 SP1 released. Mainenance Release
EditNovember 2004
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.0 released. New features:
- OTA (Over-The-Air) PIM Synchronization for Address Book, Tasks and Memo Notes
EditDecember 2003
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 3.6 SP2 released. New features:
- Support for Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Exchange 2003, and Microsoft Outlook 2003
- One setting allows a common log file location for BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Mobile Data Service logs
- Removed Sites/routing groups from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Management console.
- Added enhanced ogging when the BlackBerry Enterprise Server reconnects to the Server Relay Protocol (SRP)
- Added SetAdminKey.exe, a utility to enable restricted modes of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Management
EditSeptember 2003
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 3.6 SP1 released. New features:
- Improved attachment service configuration options: Addressed by multiple fixes. The attachment service is installed with an attachment connector. The attachment service can be installed on a separate computer from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
- Added attachment service configuration tool.
- Various enhancements to the Mobile Data Service
EditApril 2003
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 3.6 released. New features:
- Wireless email reconciliation enabled a user to read, move or delete email messages on either the handheld or the desktop and see these changes wirelessly synchronized between the handheld and the desktop. When a user moved a folder to the Deleted Items folder on the desktop, the messages in the folder are also deleted and the deletes are synchronized on the handheld.
- Integration of multiple attachment services enabled the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to convert attached documents.
- Addition of IT policies and reorganization of the IT Policy interface.
- Mobile Data Service 1.1, including handheld to server authentication
- Support added for SNMP, and improved Mobile Data Service status monitoring
- Support for vCards (electronic business cards)
- Support added for Universal Serial Bus (USB) with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
EditSeptember 2002
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 3.5 released. New features:
- Began use of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)mgmt database in MSDE/SQL.
- Improved Scalability
- S/MIME support
- GAL Lookup
EditMay 2002
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 2.1 sp4 released. Maintenance release, support for Exchange 2000
EditAugust 2001
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 2.1 sp1 released. Maintenance release
EditMarch 2001
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 2.1 released. Support for OTA calendaring
EditNovember 2000
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 2.0 Service Pack 2 released. Maintenance release, improved monitoring.
EditApril 2000
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 2.0 released, Added support for IT Policies.
EditJune 1999
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Version 1.6 released for General Availability
EditApril 1999
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)Beta 1 released. Version 1.6 was capable of E-Mail redirection. Ran only with Exchange Server version 5.5