Blackberry CLIENT FOR USE WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER 2007 V2.5.16 User Manual
BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007
version 2.5.16
Release Notes
BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
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Last modified: 29 September 2009
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Related resources
Guide Information
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature and Technical Overview • BlackBerry® Enterprise Server features
• system architecture
• data and process flows
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Installation and Configuration Guide • system requirements
• installation instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade Planning Guide • upgrade considerations
• environment-specific configurations
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade Guide • system requirements
• upgrade instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Planning Guide • high availability considerations
• high availability configuration information
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Administration Guide • system setup and management
• BlackBerry device implementation instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Monitoring Guide • monitoring configuration
• monitoring instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Device Software Update Guide • BlackBerry® Device Software update methods
• update instructions
Policy Reference Guide • IT policy rule descriptions
• application control policy rule descriptions
• configuration settings
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Security Technical Overview • BlackBerry Enterprise Server security information
• security process flows
Product information
For more information about the new features of the collaboration clients, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature
and Technical Overview.
Fixed issues
BlackBerry® Client for use with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16
SDR 304881 In previous versions of the client, if a user specified a custom location that met the character limit of the Location field
(approximately 256 characters), the user could no longer specify their current location.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
SDR 304781 In previous versions of the client, if a user deleted a blocked contact, the blocked contact might remain in the contact list. When
the user logged out, and then logged back in to the client, the user received an add request for the contact that they deleted.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
SDR 304713 In previous versions of the client, a user could send messages to a blocked contact if the user had an existing conversation with
SDR 302669
SDR 281795
SDR 300871 In previous versions of the client, in certain circumstances, if a user had AOL® contacts in their contact list, the user could not
SDR 279862 In previous versions of the client, users could not log in to the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications
the contact.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
In previous versions of the client, in certain circumstances, after a user deleted a contact from the contact list, the user received
an add request for a contact the next time that the user logged in to the client.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
log in to the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
Server 2007 if their user name was in the following format: <domain_name>\<user_name>, and if the Active Directory domain
name was different from the SIP domain name.
In the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16, this issue is resolved.
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Known issues
BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 version 2.5.16
355485 The Help screen does not display correctly if the user is running BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.7.0 or higher.
355495 If a user adds a contact to the contact list and selects a folder other than the default folder to add the contact to, the client adds
the contact to the default folder.
347722 On BlackBerry devices with a trackball, if the user uses the trackball to scroll up after leaving the Custom Status screen, the
option at the top of the screen is highlighted instead of the item above the item that was previously highlighted.
346625 In the localized versions of the client, the word “participants” at the top of the conversation window is not translated.
345478 In the Help screen, the Return link does not work.
344828 If a user wants to set a custom status, the user might need to manually delete the text from a previous custom status message
before typing a new custom status message.
326724 The status icon changes if the user changes the BlackBerry device screen from Portrait to Landscape or from Landscape to
Portrait mode.
238151 The status icon for the client does not show the user’s updated status on the BlackBerry device if the user signs in to the client
on another BlackBerry device.
166475 If a user adds a contact to the contact list and clears the Add to contact list option on the Add Request screen, the contact is
added to the contact list.
SDR 303950 If a user sends a message to an invalid contact, the error message "Failed to execute your last action" displays. The error
message does not specify that the contact does not have a valid ID or that the contact might reside in an external domain.
SDR 257764 When using Windows NTLM authentication, an error occurs if two or more users try to log in to the BlackBerry Client for use
with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, or if one user logs out and then quickly logs in.
Workaround
Set up Kerberos™ authentication or force forms-based authentication.
SDR 251895 Personal notes are not displayed in the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 if they
SDR 186430 There is no message indicating that adding distribution lists to contact lists using the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft
SDR 173980 Users cannot use a photo that is stored on the BlackBerry device as a display picture unless it is a photo that was taken with
contain special characters (for example, è, é, or $ ).
Office Communications Server 2007 is not supported.
the camera on the BlackBerry device.
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