Kerio recently released the Kerio Blackberry Connector. It provides Blackberry Enterprise Server support for the Kerio mail server product. Combine that with Blackberry releasing the Express version BES for free, and I’m in heaven.
I started to install the BES server several weeks ago and stopped because I realized BES requires Active Directory. I just didn’t think I wanted to get into managing an AD server. Well, as is with most things, once you get into it, its not so bad. In fact, I was able to breeze through the entire install in a couple hours (most of which was waiting for Win2K3 security updates). Before I knew it, I was happily activating our Blackberry phones and syncing. No more third party software, and all for free–or at least at no additional cost.
If there is enough interest, I will put together a quick step-by-step howto. For anyone currently running Kerio and wondering if this all works–it does, and rather nicely.