Its nice to get a sneak peak at RIM’s next major service pack for BES 5.0. The team @ BBNews.pl scored a copy of the performance and feature enhancements document for BES 5.0 SP2. My favorite new feature will be that RIM has raised the message pre-population limits to 30 days worth of mail messages or 3000 messages after you activate on the BES.
Check them all out below:
Enhanced Performance and Expanded Certification
Enhanced BES to Exchange Performance
- BES no longer writes updates statistics for user mailboxes is to Reduce the load on the Microsoft Exchange Server
- Contributes to lower TCO messaging
Additional Platform Certification
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008 R2 *
- MS Hyper-V 2008
Expanded Web Browser Support
Expanded Support for the Following Web Browsers:
- Internet Explorer 8
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
- Google Chrome 4.0
- Safari 4 (For Mac)
Administration BlackBerry Administration Service
Simplified usability and control from the management console
- Pre-defined groups added That administration can be used to support best practices
- IT Policy Reconciliation added to Simplify assignment policy is user accounts and groups
- Better controls for searching and Displaying user information
- Calendar Slow Sync Forced That ensures users will have a calendaring Consistent experience (Domino Only) *
BAS Administration Enhancements (Continued) Simplified administration of BlackBerry users and domains
More BlackBerry Domain-wide configuration settings
- SQL Mirroring now configured at the domain level
- BAS administer communication protocols at the domain level
Additional domain wide administration tool to Simplify user administration
- BlackBerry Domain Search
Monitoring the BlackBerry Monitoring Service (BMS)
UI Improvements, additional metrics and reporting
- BMS Improvements – layout of the information Improved
- Additional metrics, reports and Notifications introduced to help monitor the system health
- Average latency Checks in coverage for devices
- Monitoring and notification of uninitialized users
- Pending messages per server
Management
Enhanced Logging meeting Security & Compliance Needs
- Logging Enhancements
- Expanded Ability to control maximum age of daily logs for all components logged via the console BAS
- Logging for the BlackBerry Server Configuration panel added
- New URL Based RSA Authentication – More control over two-factor authentication, RSA
End-User Enhancements
Improved BlackBerry Experience
- Single Sign On (SSO)
- User self-service tools
- Enhanced BlackBerry experience
- Message pre-POPULATION is a device
- Expanded capacity for calendar entries
Single Sign On (SSO) – Seamless access the BAS site
Desktop and enterprise resources
- Integrated authentication for the Web Desktop Manager
- Integrated authentication, the BAS will save time for administrators
- Integrated authentication from the BlackBerry to access enterprise resources (MDS-CS SSO)
User Self Service Reducing Overall Costs
Web Desktop enhancements:
- New Capabilities for managing devices introduced
- Secure a lost device, Including the Ability to set password and lock
- BlackBerry if it is lost or stolen
- Delete all device data and disable the device
- Improved Organization of controls in the Web Interface GUI Desktop
Enhanced BlackBerry Experience
- Device activation enhancement
- Message pre-POPULATION limits have been increased to 30 days worth of mail messages or 3000
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server will now display the ‘junk’ email folder for Enterprise Activation messages
- Full body of email messages Sent From The Desktop To The device Delivered
- Calendar entry body size increased
