Blackberry blackberry enterprise server for microsoft exchange manual

Feature and Technical OverviewBlackBerry Enterprise Server components and features

		Database property name
Contact information	Database property	in BlackBerry	Description
	name	Configuration Database
		version 4.1
mailbox path	MailboxKey	UserConfig.MailboxDN	This property specifies the unique mailbox
			path.
messaging server	ServerName	UserConfig.ServerDN	This property specifies the path to the
path			messaging server.

How the BlackBerry Mail Store Service accesses contact information that is stored on the messaging server

In a Microsoft Exchange environment, the BlackBerry Mail Store Service can connect to the messaging server and search for contact information using MAPI or LDAP. By default, the BlackBerry Mail Store Service uses MAPI to search for contact information. If you configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to use LDAP to search for contact information, the BlackBerry Mail Store Service can also use LDAP to search for contact information.

For more information about how the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses LDAP, visit www.blackberry.com/support to read article KB05174.

Configuring the BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance that updates the contact list

The BlackBerry Configuration Database contains your organization's contact list and a list of BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances. By default, the BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance that you installed with the first BlackBerry Enterprise Server instance that appears in the list updates the contact list. If you prevent the BlackBerry Mail Store Service that you installed with the first BlackBerry Enterprise Server instance from updating the contact list, the next available BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance in the list updates the contact list.

By default, if you install multiple BlackBerry Mail Store Service instances, each instance can update the contact list in the BlackBerry Configuration Database. The first BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance that updates the contact list prevents the other instances from also updating the contact list. Each BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance searches for time stamp information in the BlackBerry Configuration Database to determine if another BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance is updating the contact list already before it starts to update the contact list.

You must verify that at least one BlackBerry Mail Store Service instance can update the contact list in the BlackBerry Configuration Database so that the BlackBerry Administration Service can access the latest contact list information when you create and manage user accounts. If you prevent all of the BlackBerry Mail Store Service instances from updating the

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