I have recently gone through this myself. The only time that having the desktop redirectors installed on the desktop is under the following conditions:
1. The user has a desktop computer in the office and travels with a laptop. 2. The user is too damn lazy to plug into a phone at the airport and VPN in to get his/her mail. 3. The Blackberry server tanks because some new-hire flunky thought it would be a good idea to show off the fault tolerance of RAID disk, only he didn't realize that on a RAID-5 array, you CANNOT pull out more than one disk. I had to explain to 30 blackberry users that the reason they lost their mail was due to the fact that my recently labotomized assistant is an idiot. Having desktop redirectors would have been handy during the outage... Have a nice day. Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 -----Original Message----- From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blackberry Desktop Manager causes Outlook 2k to start in offl ine mode Why dont you just get the server product and dump the gludgy desktop redir... it nice and all for like 1 or 2 people but beyond that its a bit of a bite better yet...get Good Technologies solution and you get Sync'd E-mail, Contacts, Calendar, etc...just like have you total OL with you..it's nice! -----Original Message----- From: Alverson, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:50 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blackberry Desktop Manager causes Outlook 2k to start in offl ine mode Thanks for the tip. I think we could create a "blackberry" group of users on our domain (nt4) and then test to see if they are in that group in the login script to determine whether to launch the desktop manager or not. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Durkee, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blackberry Desktop Manager causes Outlook 2k to start in offl ine mode We take the Desktop Manager out of the Startup folder and instead launch it from our logon script, so it doesn't start when people are out of the office. -Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alverson, Tom Sent: Thursday, 25 March, 2004 11:51 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Blackberry Desktop Manager causes Outlook 2k to start in offline mode We have a few users with laptops and blackberries who like to dial in. We have a special dial in modem bank that can access the RPC ports of our Exchange 5.5 server. If they have the Blackberry desktop manager loading at startup, it tries to connect to the exchange server and decides that it is offline. When they dial in to this connection and then launch Outlook, the mapi spooler is already loaded (by the blackberry desktop manager) and has already decided that the computer is offline. Right now we have to tell them to quit the Blackberry desktop manager, then dial in, then launch Outlook. If they need to cradle the Blackberry, then they must manually launch the desktop manager. Since they use the laptops direct connected to our LAN 95% of the time, it is good to have the desktop manager in the startup group. Is there a better way to handle this? 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