Installation has been greatly streamlined in BES 4.0. The process runs smoothly after a service account is created and a CDO (collaborative data objects) patch from Microsoft is applied to the server. Components that once required multiple installers for BES 3.6 now need only one. Even a relatively inexperienced IT admin can handle BES 4.0.
BES communicates with RIM's SRP (Server Relay Protocol) server using Port 3101. Communication is outbound only; BES initiates a connection to the SRP server, and data passes between BES and the SRP server using this connection. The advantage here is that no inbound connection is allowed to the BES server, so no inbound ports have to be opened on the corporate firewall.
Handheld Configuration
Of all BES' improvements, handheld provisioning and deployment will bring the most joy to IT. Version 4.0 introduces two means of deploying a handheld without having to configure anything on the user's workstation: BlackBerry Configuration Tool 4.0 and the enterprise configuration option in BlackBerry Manager 4.0. I found both effective.
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