Blackberry and BPOS / Exchange Online

Today on of our clients asked about the possibility to connect their Blackberry's to an Exchange Online environment. Because they only have 12 mobiles and currently don't use Blackberry we advised them to use BIS instead of BES.

Below you'll find a description on using Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) with Exchange Online. It was created by the Microsoft Online Services Team.

This article provides instructions to connect your Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) account with Microsoft Online Services.  BIS only provides e-mail synchronization with Exchange Online.

1. Go to your wireless provider's BIS site.
2. Click Setup Account.
3. Enter your e-mail address and password.
4. At this point, BIS autodiscover prompts you for additional information.  Select the radio button for the option I will provide the settings to add this email account, and then click Next.
5. On the Select Account Type screen, select the radio button for the option This is my work email account, and click Next.
6. On the Set Up An Existing Work Email Account screen, select radio button option for I can access my email account using a Web browser (Outlook Web Access), and click Next.
7. Enter the OWA URL for your location as follows:

• North America - https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com 
• Europe - https://red002.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com
• Asia - https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com
• For "User Name", enter the email address you use to sign in to Microsoft Online Services.
• For "Password", enter the password you use to sign in to Microsoft Online Services.
• For "Email address", enter the email address you use to sign in to Microsoft Online Services.
• For "Mailbox name", leave blank. 

Your Microsoft Online Services e-mail account should now be successfully added to your list of "Valid Email Accounts" for Blackberry Internet Service. A new mailbox will appear on your Blackberry shortly.

The BIS infrastructure is run by Research In Motion and your wireless provider, and these instructions may change as the service is updated. As mentioned previously, BIS provides e-mail connectivity only.

Comments

[Juan P. Quiceno]

Great post. Quick question:

So, if I use BPOS I don't have to pay some other provider (Rackspace, Sherweb, etc) for hosting exchange or BES? I can just pay BPOS for my exchange online hosted email, and use my T-mobile data plan by default, which so happens to be called BIS? The real question is whether I will achieve push email. Or will BES be need for push email, even with BPOS exchange online?

I hope I wasn't too confusing.

Thanks.

- Juan

[Danny Burlage]

Hi Juan,

You are correct. You pay a fixed fee to Microsoft. There are no other hosting costs with other providers.

Danny Burlage