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Let's join the community - KawanBB

Hi there,

I'm using Celcom BIS and my company's BES.

1 - You only get email, contacts, task and memo sync thru BES, everything else is on BIS, so that' fine. No worries

2 - Yes, you can get OWA and don't need BES. However, if your company's exchange server is protected with Microsoft ISA (Internet Security & Acceleration) server, then OWA using BlackBerry is not possible unless they willing to make changes on ISA and Exchange. To find out what changes need to be done, google these term - "blackberry OWA ISA", you should get many tips and tricks on how to do it. Of course, your company's IT administrator has to do it.

Another alternative for you...

Subscribe to BIS and use as normal. Then, get your IT admin to setup a server-side forwarding for all your incoming email to your blackberry email address. So you will get your company's email on blackberry (as a copy). When reply to email, you can setup an "Auto BCC" in Blackberry to send a copy back to your company's email address so you get a copy of all the email you sent. Then, in your outlook client (on desktop/laptop), setup a filtering rules to move all the "Auto BCC" item into "Sent Items". Done!

I found out this is less work for the IT admin and they are more willing to help you to setup a server-side forwarding as that doesn't mess around with the ISA server security settings. However, with this method, you only get email over the air, for contacts, task and memo, you have to sync it like once a day using USB cable via desktop/laptop.

Hope this helps...