Hi,in the documentation for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 2.1 for Lotus Domino it reads that “it is recommended that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server reside in the same Lotus Domino domain and Lotus Named Network as the Lotus Domino Servers in which the potential BlackBerry users reside.”
Since I am running an evaluation of the system I can’t (and I don’t want to either) put the BES in my operational domain, but rather have it in a seperate domain.
Anyone have experience with this?
Subject: BlackBerry Enterprise Server in its own domain
No experience with Blackberry so far, but it seems by suggesting that they have in mind a simple and bullet proof mail routing configuration.On the other hand, “recommended” is not “required”.
You may try to
set up the mail routing between both domains properly, using connection documents
cascade the primary directories (or derived extended directory catalogs) of both domains as secondary addressbooks in the other domain vice versa (using directory assistance).
Subject: RE: BlackBerry Enterprise Server in its own domain
I am running BES v2.1. I have no experience running it in a different domain either. I do know that Blackberry is very picky. It’s not my favorite animal, that’s for sure. Whatever you do, don’t install it on your Domino mail server if you have one. In my opinion, I’d follow the documentation. My documentation says that it’s a requirement to install the BES in the same Notes Named Network and Domino Domain as the Domino mail server. Have you tried Blackberry tech support? They’ve been pretty good at helping me with some of the tougher issues. 1-877-255-2377.
Subject: RE: BlackBerry Enterprise Server in its own domain
Yes, it really seems as if the only issue would be message routing and RPC calls being enabled between the BES and the Domino. I’d say that’s a solvable issue and I have found a posting in the Technical Knowledge Base at RIM’s website (http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/Placing_the_BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_in_the_same_Lotus_Notes_Named_Network_as_the_mail_server.pdf?func=doc.Fetch&nodeId=18829&docTitle=Placing+the+BlackBerry+Enterprise+Server+in+the+same+Lotus+Notes+Named+Network+as+the+mail+server&vernum=1). It outlines that technically it is possible, just they don’t recommend it and they don’t support it.
I guess I’ll give it a shot…
Subject: BlackBerry Enterprise Server in its own domain
Hi there,
the main problem is that the From field will have the canonical name with the @TestDomain attached. Hence when you send an e-mail to somebody externally they can’t reply to that address. Also when you are replying to a BlackBerry e-mail internally it will always bounce to your test domain and then get routed to your production domain (also because of the @TestDomain).
Regards,
Mike.
Subject: BlackBerry Enterprise Server in its own domain
The 4.0 BES software is supposedly going to handle other domains.