[labberton]

Dear All

Do I need to have BES 5.0 to sync public folders to my Blackberry devices?

Ideally we want to create a contact list within Exchange 2003 (public folder seems to be the easiest) and then syn this through to our BES (4.1.6).

We also want to give 2 PA's access to amend this list, hence we want a public folder, but do we have to do this within BES 5.0, and upgrade?

Thanks

[nobody7290]

If you need public folder, you have to upgrade.
Either the BES or the free BESx will do.

Public folder acess is read only, and only works for folders of type Address-Book.

[KOR]

Well...

You would need to move to version 5 or later of BES if you want to do a wireless sync (which also requires updating any handhelds to version 5 or later OS, if available). If you can live with a wired sync, no need to change anything. The setup you outlined is exactly what we used for ~ 3 years (with varying versions of BES 4).