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Lithium_Power  Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
Subject:
Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Our exchange server 2010 requires there be a password to unlock mobile phones. It works with iOS, blackberry, as well as Android Phones.
I have the ability to remotely wipe and disable mobile phones should they become lost or stolen.
And I agree with the above statements, educate your users how not to violate the rules!
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Marzuk  Posts: 153
Registered: 2002-10-21 16:08:17
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Lithium_Power posted:
And I agree with the above statements, educate your users how not to violate the rules!
If only it was that easy. I had the argument all the time about not being able to send or receive mail because users were over their Quota. They would ask "What do I do?!?!" and I'd respond "Uh, delete some email that you don't need." Yeah, I'd even show them how to find large emails, and beg them to delete that 5MB email from 4 years ago, but people just don't like to delete things.
One person in corporate would send out emails that were large KNOWING it was going to put most users over their quota. I suggested that we could upload the doc to the internal website and just send a link. Nope, not good enough for her. She still called to warn us that she was about to bomb email for the entire company though.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Know of any open source ones? 
Sadly, no.
However, with a Lion Server, you can get a lite version of MDM running using Profile Manager which is part of the OS.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
Subject:
Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Marzuk posted:
Lithium_Power posted:
And I agree with the above statements, educate your users how not to violate the rules!
If only it was that easy. I had the argument all the time about not being able to send or receive mail because users were over their Quota. They would ask "What do I do?!?!" and I'd respond "Uh, delete some email that you don't need." Yeah, I'd even show them how to find large emails, and beg them to delete that 5MB email from 4 years ago, but people just don't like to delete things.
One person in corporate would send out emails that were large KNOWING it was going to put most users over their quota. I suggested that we could upload the doc to the internal website and just send a link. Nope, not good enough for her. She still called to warn us that she was about to bomb email for the entire company though.
Put her in her own group where the only person in the company she can email is herself. Easy to do, and fun to watch.
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Sworks1 Posts: 54
Registered: 2009-3-14 16:00:33
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Excuse my ignorance, but how did you email have to set up to lose it? We all have BB at work and emails have been working fine, no interruption.
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Marzuk Posts: 153
Registered: 2002-10-21 16:08:17
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Balor_Gafdan posted:
Put her in her own group where the only person in the company she can email is herself. Easy to do, and fun to watch.
Unfortunately she was one of "those" people. She would have been in the CEO's office in 5 minutes flat, and the results would not have been good for me. The execs hall pretty much ran IT in that place though.
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-Mithan-  Title: VNBoard Admin
Posts: 1,287
Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
Subject:
Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Blackberry is done.
Like all consumer electronics, you are hot until you are not, and then the bottom falls out from under you faster than you can blink.
Steve Jobs understood this well, which is why he said that innovation was the key to their success.
The best thing Blackberry could do now is take advantage of the people who are hooked on BBM and offer it on all platforms for a fee of $10-20 a year. Thousands who are going to jump ship to Android/iPhone anyways would buy it, giving them extra revenue they might be able to use to pull another hat trick out of their ass in the future, but I doubt it.
6 months ago when I traded in my Black berry, I would have payed $20 easily for BBM. The further and further away from my trade in date I go, the less I care about BBM and this was the only real advantage Blackberry had.
Their Managers don't get this though.
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Lithium_Power Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Blackberry fell down, go boom. |
Blackberry might be losing market share in the US and UK but they are still huge in middle east countries.
Maybe RIM should just merge the best things about BlackBerry into an Android based OS and ride the profit train a little longer.
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IvanDF Title: Veni, vidi, vici
Posts: 190
Registered: 2004-11-28 11:24:08
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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http://www.mobileiron.com/
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
Reziztance iz Futile
Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
10/12/11 4:41pm
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Sounded great until I read that it forces you to use gps on your phone at all times, which drains the battery, not to mention privacy.
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