BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 SP2 Specs Leaked

Our very good friends at BBNews.pl were able to get their hands on the full details of BES 5.0 SP2. There are numerous improvements to the BES admin, and a few more platform support. Full details after break.

Performance & Platform Enhancements

Enhanced Performance and Expanded Certification

• Enhanced performance to an Exchange BES

• 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 is an enterprise access 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