Configuring a Microsoft Exchange 2007 messaging environment
Create a Windows account that has a Microsoft Exchange 2007 mailbox
You must create a Windows® account that has a Microsoft® Exchange 2007 mailbox so that the Windows account can authenticate with the Microsoft® Exchange Server.
- On the computer that hosts Microsoft Exchange, log in using an administrator account that has the correct permission to create accounts.
- Open the Microsoft Exchange Management Console.
- Create an account and mailbox that you name BESAdmin.
- To permit the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server to check if a user has permissions for a public folder, assign the Owner permission for all public folders to the administrator account.
- To verify that you created the Windows account, log in to a computer using the Windows account.
- Verify that the Windows account is not a member of the Domain Administrators group in Microsoft® Active Directory®.
- Verify that BlackBerry device users have Read and Visible permissions to public folders.
- To permit BlackBerry device users to check the availability of meeting participants in BlackBerry® Device Software 4.5 or later, configure the Schedule+ Free/Busy information for the system public folder. For more information, visit http://technet.microsoft.com to read articles 629523 and 691129.
Permit users to send email messages in a Microsoft Exchange environment
To permit BlackBerry® device users to send email messages, you must configure Send As permissions for the Microsoft® Active Directory® user object that contains users. This task describes how to configure the Send As permissions for the entire Windows® domain, but you can also configure the permissions at the user object level or on a container of user objects.
For more information about Send As permissions and the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, visit www.blackberry.com/btsc to read article KB04707. For more information about assigning Send As permissions permissions to multiple user accounts, visit support.microsoft.com to read article 912918.
- Log in to a computer in the Windows domain as an administrator that has permissions to change user objects in Microsoft Active Directory.
- On the taskbar, click Start > Administrative Tools > Active Directory Users and Computers.
- On the View menu, click Advanced Features.
- Right-click the domain root. Click Properties.
- On the Security tab, click Advanced.
- Click Add.
- Type the name of the Windows account that you created (for example, BESAdmin).
- Click Check Names.
- Click OK.
- Perform one of the following actions:
- In the Allow column, select the Send As check box.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.