Hi all,
After searcing for the last few hours across the site looking for issues with having outlook on the bes server, all I seem to come across is people saying it is bad, and not saying why
. I have found a lot of "Outlook is installed on the BES server and this is your problem" and nothing substantial to back that up.
I have a customer, with a terminal server, with office installed, and it is also the BES server. They have around 10 blackberry users, and occasionally have synch delays of up to around 5 minutes between when mail arrives in their mailbox, and when the handheld receives it.
They have another server acting as a sql server and I am loath to install BES on there due to this server requiring critical application response for a core business app - BES is useful, however they can operate without it - if their core application has issues, then the company has issues. So in the mean time, I want to verify if the cause of the delay of handheld synching is due to the outlook install on the BES server.
Version of BES is 4.0x with latest service packs and hotfixes. I don't see many issues in the event log, except on server reboot, where it seems to take around 3 minutes to kick things off.
Their internet connection is heavily used, and this to me seems to be the main root cause of the problem - but I don't want to discount the "outlook" issue
I just need to know why it is an issue, and if it is a necessary evil, what can be done to help alleviate any problems it might cause.