[DarnellX]

I've been having trouble getting a BB activation done for a user of ours in Chile. I tested the account on my own test device here in Vancouver (where the BES is), and I couldn't get past the authentication. I tracked this to a rule in his outlook that was moving the email with the holy .DAT file to another folder. Then I tried an EA and got past the authentication, but then hung at 85%. So I quit, deleted the account and tried again, and after hanging for 20 minutes it went through and I seemed to have a fully functional device. So I asked our IT assistant in Chile to try it.

So she tried it, and got stuck at 11% for 40 minutes, then retried and hung for an hour and a half. Apparently it even received one email, but couldn't send. Here's a copy of the log for that user today:

Server,User,Step,Step Info,Time
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step01,AGENT- Enterprise Activation message has been picked up by the BlackBerry Enterprise Server,03:48:01
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step01,AGENT- Enterprise Activation message has been picked up by the BlackBerry Enterprise Server,07:17:01
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step02,AGENT- Encryption Key is being generated,03:48:04
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step03,AGENT- Sending Service Book request to the Policy Server,03:48:09
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step04,POLICY- Policy Server sent the IT Policy to the BlackBerry device,03:48:22
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step04,POLICY- Policy Server sent the IT Policy to the BlackBerry device,04:15:27
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step05,POLICY- IT Policy was successfully delivered to the BlackBerry device,03:48:33
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step05,POLICY- IT Policy was successfully delivered to the BlackBerry device,04:15:39
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step06,POLICY- Policy Server sent the Service Books to the BlackBerry device,03:48:34
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step06,POLICY- Policy Server sent the Service Books to the BlackBerry device,04:15:39
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step07,POLICY- Service Books were successfully delivered to the BlackBerry device,03:48:36
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step07,POLICY- Service Books were successfully delivered to the BlackBerry device,04:15:43
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step08,AGENT- The BlackBerry device should be active and able to send and receive messages,03:48:39
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step08a,AGENT- Message pre-population has been triggered,03:48:09
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:32
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,03:51:41
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,04:04:43
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,04:15:51
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,06:55:47
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:47
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:50
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:51
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:52
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:54
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:56
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:57
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step09,AGENT- The Wireless Calendar Slow-Sync request has been received from the BlackBerry device,07:00:59
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step10,SYNC- The Slow-Sync Process has been initiated by the BlackBerry device,06:52:00
[Exchange Server],"[User's Email]",Step11,SYNC- The Slow-Sync Process has completed and the enterprise activation should be complete,06:58:58

Any ideas? Sorry if this is an obvious one, I'm not very familiar with the logs... I know it says the EA "should be complete", but it isn't...

Thanks

[DarnellX]

Nobody? Really?

[P.Walnuts]

try putting the user you are trying on a static mailbox agent and give it a ID of 200 , see if this trick helps. Just put them back on a dynamic mailbox after they are activated

[DarnellX]

Sorry? Our exchange admin has never heard of static mailboxes or ID 200. Are you thinking of another mail system?

[misterbulldog]

Is it possible to install Desktop Manager on a PC in Chile and activate using USB?

[fadmin]

Originally Posted by DarnellX

Sorry? Our exchange admin has never heard of static mailboxes or ID 200. Are you thinking of another mail system?

BES static mailbox agent....

[DarthBBerry]

EA stops at 11%

[DarnellX]

Thanks for the link, Darthberry. Solution 1 looks like a solution to a case where everyone on the BES is having the issue, which isn't the case. I could try the second one, but it seems similar to a fix we've found for this in the past where running outlook.exe /resetfolders has solved it. In any case, it seems like a corruption of the mailbox. I've since got this blackberry to activate by having her wipe it and deleting and recreating the BES account again.

P.Walnuts/FAdmin: Right I saw that just after I posted, sorry. But what would this do?

[P.Walnuts]

it will allow the phone to have a dedicated agent which will allow the phones processes not to be affected by the traffic on the bes and other processes that are being performed by the agents.