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Microsoft® Exchange

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End User Features
  Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 Version
5.0
Email    
Access to Regular Exchange Email - Send/Receive Email Wirelessly  yes  yes
Push Message Delivery  yes  yes
Wireless Email Reconciliation  yes4  yes4
Sent Item Synchronization  yes10  yes10
Wireless Email Settings  yes10  yes10
Wireless email reconciliation hard-delete support  yes  yes
Email Server Search and Download  yes22  yes22
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Email Message View  yes  yes
HTML Support  yes22  yes22
Device Side Folder Management    yes26
Flag for Follow Up    yes26
Instant Messaging
Support for Microsoft® Windows® Messenger  yes  yes
BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007  yes  yes
IM Contact Linking to Address Book Contact  yes22  yes22
IM Contact Click-to-Call  yes22  yes22
IM Session Convert-to-Call  yes22  yes22
Emoticons for BlackBerry Client for Lotus Sametime  yes22  yes22
Calendar/PIM
Wireless Calendar Synchronization  yes1  yes1
Wireless PIM Synchronization (Calendar, Address Book, Memopad, Tasklist)  yes10  yes10
Remote Address Lookup  yes3  yes3
vCard Support (conversion to BlackBerry Address Book)  yes  yes
Calendar Enhancements (Tentative Acceptance, Conflict & Adjacent Notification, Private Flag Support)  yes11  yes11
Task Enhancements (Task Reminders and Recurrences)  yes16  yes16
PIM Categories Support  yes11,17  yes11,17
Address Lookup for Hosting Organizations  yes  yes
Free/Busy Availability Lookup  yes22  yes22
Forward Calendar Entries    yes26
Calendar Attachment Support    yes26
Synchronization of public and private contacts    yes26
Synchronization of Multiple Contact Folders    yes26
Attachments
Attachment Service  yes4  yes4
Attachment Service Support for .ZIP  yes5  yes5
Attachment Service Support for Color Attachment Viewing  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support Image Viewing (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF)  yes5,18  yes5,18
Attachment Service Support for Document Info, Tracked Changes  yes5,18  yes5,18
Image Application  yes11,18  yes11,18
Attachment viewing pan and zoom enhancements  yes  yes
Native File Format Download  yes22  yes22
Attachment Edit (.DOC, .PPT)  yes22  yes22
Support for Audio (.AMR, .WAV, .MP3)  yes  yes
Support for Audio WMA files    yes
Support for Open Document Format (ODF)    yes
Corporate Data Access
BlackBerry Browser  yes2  yes2
Corporate Data Access  yes2  yes2
BlackBerry Browser JavaScript v1.3 Support  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser Enhancements (Enhanced HTML Tables Support, Ability to Email a URL, Animated GIF Support)  yes15  yes15
Remote File Explorer    yes26
Device Choice    
BlackBerry device support  yes  yes
Support for BlackBerry Connect and BlackBery Built-In devices  yes  yes
Enterpise device authorization  yes  yes
Support
Automatic Wireless Backup of Device Data  yes10  yes10
Over-the-Air Device Software Updates  yes22  yes22
Ability to Delete BlackBerry Applications from the Handheld  yes11  yes11
On-Handheld Help  yes15,17  yes15,17
Archiving SMS, PIN-to-PIN and Call Logs  yes  yes
IT Features
  Version 4.1 with Service Pack 6 Version
5.0
Security
End-to-end Security  yes  yes
Triple DES encryption support  yes  yes
AES encryption support  yes15  yes15
Support for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)  yes  yes
Device Content Protection, Content Compression  yes11  yes11
Password Keeper, Handheld Wipe  yes11  yes11
Wireless Encryption Key Regeneration  yes10  yes10
Deployment    
Automated BlackBerry® Desktop Software Deployment (Silent Install)  yes12  yes12
Support for Single Desktop Manager Package (separate installers)  yes14  yes14
Cradle-less Provisioning  yes10  yes10
BlackBerry Router® and BlackBerry® Device Manager  yes10  yes10
Handheld Configuration Tool  yes  yes
Supports Optional BlackBery Desktop Manager (Basic MSI Installer, Full Desktop or Handheld Manager only)  yes  yes
Application Loader "Lite"  yes  yes
Wireless Third Party Application Provisioning and Control  yes15  yes15
Extensibility/Corporate Data Access    
BlackBerry® Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS)  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Services  yes20  yes20
BlackBerry MDS Runtime  yes20  yes20
Two-factor authentication support  yes  yes
Data group push  yes  yes
BlackBerry Browser supports WML, cHTML, xHTML and HTML, CSS (partial)  yes11  yes11
BlackBerry Browser supports JavaScript, offline forms handling  yes11  yes11
Increased access control, application management and corporate proxy handling  yes  yes
Additional development tools, such as Synchronization SDK, Attachment Distiller SDK, and Plazmic Content Developer’s Kit  yes  yes
Management/Administration
Multi-network support  yes  yes
Forced Blind Carbon Copy  yes  yes
All-Points-Bulletin Via PIN  yes  yes
Global Filters  yes  yes
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Management Console  yes  yes
Web-Based BlackBerry® Adminstration Service Console    yes
Multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances on one physical machine  yes  yes
Enhanced Error Logging  yes  yes
Wireless IT Policies and Commands  yes3  yes3
License Manager  yes  yes
Preservation of User Settings (device, desktop) on Update  yes13  yes13
Support for Enforced Handheld Software Update IT Policy  yes13  yes13
Support for Microsoft Exchange 2003  yes  yes
Enhanced SNMP Management  yes21  yes21
Handheld Management Reporting  yes10  yes10
Server Architectural Improvements  yes  yes
Role based administration  yes  yes
Group based administration  yes  yes
Common BlackBerry Manager console across all three email platforms  yes  yes
Backup and restore of saved messages  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry® Monitoring Service  yes23  yes23
Related Product Releases    
BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager - available as a download  yes  yes
BlackBerry Monitoring Service  yes23  yes23
Custom Roles with different levels of access according to employee's roles and permissions    yes
Built in Monitoring with Threshold Analysis Tool and Maintenance Window Support    yes
Job management for applications    yes
Throttling    yes
Scheduled Upgrades    yes
BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter    yes27
High Availability    yes
Enhanced Enterprise Activation Diagnostics/Troubleshooting    yes
Platform Certification    
VMWare ESX v3.0.1  yes  yes
BES 64-bit O/S Support  yes  yes
BESd, BESx (in 32-bit mode)  yes  yes
BES with 64-bit SQL 2005 DB  yes  yes
Footnotes
BlackBerry® Device Software requirements for:
  C++ enabled handhelds Java enabled handhelds
1 v2.1 SP4 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
2 v2.5 or higher v3.2.1 or higher
3 v2.5 or higher v3.6 or higher
4 v2.6 or higher v3.6 or higher
5 v2.6 or higher v3.7 or higher
6 Attachment service is supported as an 'add-on' to: (a) handheld software v2.1 (or higher) for C++ enabled BlackBerry handhelds AND (b) BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino v2.1 with SP1. Not available for Java-enabled BlackBerry handhelds on BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.1.
7 Requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v2.2 SP1
10 v2.7 or higher v4.0 or higher
11   v3.8 or higher
12 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Software v2.1 SP3 or higher
13 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Softwarev3.5 or higher
14 Requires BlackBerry Desktop Softwarev3.6 or higher
15   v4.0 or higher (10MB or higher)
16 v2.5 or higher v4.0 or higher
17   16MB or more memory only
18   color screens only
19 Sametime, DB2 and Notes are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. GroupWise is a registered trademark or trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Windows Messenger, Outlook and Exchange are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries
20 Components of Mobile Data System software version 4.1
21 More SNMP event traps in BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1
22 v4.5 or higher handheld software
23 Bundled with BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1 with Service Pack 5, but has a separate installer
24 4.0+ Introduced Messaging Agents that improved performance and scalability of this feature
25

for Exchange 2007 requires BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1.3 or higher
26 BlackBerry Device Software v5.0 or higher required
27 Included with the BlackBerry Resource Kit (BRK)

Source: BlackBerry.com

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