We've chosen to support BlackBerry, BlackBerry devices and Exchange ActiveSync.
We don't support non-BlackBerry devices. This means that if a user gets an EAS phone that doesn't fully support EAS and our security policies, and it doesn't work, they are out of luck. Many Android devices don't support EAS security policies correctly, and will not sync. iPhones had this issue when they first came out too. By supporting EAS, but not the phones, then IT won't spend more than a few minutes assisting a user with initial setup. Security issues obviously are not addressed, but top management made that decision. We evaluated Good and found that it wasn't what we wanted. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Alexion Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:07 AM To: A_List_for_BES_Admin's_to_discuss issues Subject: [Bes-admins] Droid X I am starting to get pressure from some top level managers to support these. Coincidentally, they were the same managers who 2 years ago drove the decision to switch from Palm Treos to BB. Of course, when they drove the BB decision, they had no idea about the task of deploying BES, they just think a phone is a phone from an IT perspective. In the two years since I have deployed BES and taught myself how to use it, I think it is one of the best decisions they made for me. No more running to desks to fix one phone at a time. My personal phone is the HTC Evo. I love the phone. But I don't want to support individual phones again. I just don't have the resources, and don't want to take a step backwards in efficiency. Whether you have faced the issue with iPhones or Android, I am looking for suggestions on how you resisted management pressure to support these non-enterprise phones. -- Art Alexion Systems Engineer Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19144 267-615-3172 _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list [email protected] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins --------------------------------- Bes-Admins mailing list is sponsored by Dataoutagenews.com. http://www.dataoutagenews.com _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list [email protected] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins --------------------------------- Bes-Admins mailing list is sponsored by Dataoutagenews.com. http://www.dataoutagenews.com
