I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

M. Khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:57:19 GMT

ok thanks v much,

I was stucked on that RIM's kb about R2, so you recommend me to do these 2 jobs in order to run OCS 2007 on Blackberry, can you please elaborate these steps for me or post me a link to do that;

New customers (did not have OCS 2007 deployment prior) who have already installed OCS 2007 R2 but now want to deploy CWA 2007 within the environment must follow these steps:

1. You need to perform a Forest Prep and a Domain Prep with the 2007 (R1) RTM Setup, not the command line.

2. You just need to add the OCS 2007 CWA (R1) to an existing R2 pool. No need to create a 2007 (R1) pool.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

markga — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:12:53 GMT

Hi M. Khan,

Yes, you can coexist with R1. See process in comments above.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

M. Khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:06:08 GMT

I am a newbie with OCS and sorry if my question is a bit stupid;

it is clear that Blackberry Enterprise Instant messaging is not functional with Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 as per RIM's KB17757, and so far RIM has not updated its client to be compatible with R2, Cant we downgrade our CWA to R1 ?? It is possible or not? If yes, then what are the difficulties one has to prepare to faced.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

markga — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:31:23 GMT

Paulo,

Let me check on that scenario. I believe you should be able to continue to install R1 CWA servers since you already had R1 installed prior. The Prep scenario above is if you never had R1 installed.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

Paulo Trilho — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:05:39 GMT

And if I already have one CWA 2007 server, migrate my solution to OCSR2 and leave as you say, the old CWA 2007 for the BB clients, will I be able to install an additional CWA2007 to provide fault tolerance, without having to perform the forest Prep and domain prep with the OCS 2007 (R1) setup?

Thanks

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

markga — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:10:35 GMT

Michael,

I checked with our support folks and this is what they have performed with other customers to make it work:

1. Installed OCS 2007 R2

2. Installed CWA 2007 R2

3. Ran ForestPrep from OCS 2007 (not R2) install bits

4. Installed CWA 2007 R1

There is a KB article slated to talk about this scenario. I will post when it becomes available.

You other option is to look at 3rd party add-ons for Blackberry to connect to OCS.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

Michael — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:20:03 GMT

We have OCS R2 installed and need to get BlackBerry support. This requires we use option 3 above. Can you expound some more on the steps needed to enable this functionality?

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

Jared — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:37:28 GMT

Also, don't you mean that you must prep using the command line and NOT the GUI? The GUI says that the prep has already been complete.

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

Jared — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:20:21 GMT

So we upgraded from OCS R1 to R2 (we had no CWA in R1). We just need to forestprep and domainprep our R2 environment with the R1 discs and then install a cwa R1 role to the existing R2 pool? Do we need to then forestprep and domainprep with the R2 afterwards? prep'ing with the R1 isn't going to affect R2 attributes in AD is it?

re: I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2

Eric — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:58:59 GMT

I wish someone could just build one for Blackberry since they can't keep things up to date