The Network Administrator

Virtual CloneDrive

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

FileZilla

http://filezilla-project.org/

ImgBurn

http://www.imgburn.com/

VirtualBox

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Sysinternals Suite

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/SysinternalsSuite.zip

HWiNFO32

http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html

CCleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard

Recuva

http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/standard

I wrote an article a while back about BES 5.0.1 as we upgraded our BES 4.6 server after installing a new email server with MS Exchange 2010. However, today i learned that there is a free version of BES 5.0.1. I was thinking the express version would probably be very limited, but to my surprise it offers almost all of same functiionality as the enterprise version. The express version is really designed for small to mid-size organizations and provides the same security, management, and push technologies of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The only cost outside the blackberry software is the microsoft server(s) to run it.

I have come accross admins who use Express to manage personal BlackBerry phones that employees purchase and bring to work, while letting BES handle the corporate BlackBerry devices that are deployed in large numbers.

I should also note that both versions have the new BlackBerry Administration Service, which is a Web-based console. This is where most of the user, device and server management and configuration happen.

I installed SugarCRM on Windows Server 2003 IIS 6 for evaluation. http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/download/sugar-suite.html

http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The install was pretty easy, it was a typical web site install envolving PHP and MySQL. Configure CGI was a struggle though. To install and configure CGI follow these steps.

1.Download the CGI extension   

http://www.iis.net/download/fastcgi

2. Add an extension mapping

limit it verbs to GET,HEAD,POST


3. Next open a command prompt and issue this command..

C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv>


4. If you open C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\fcgiext.ini ,  you will see an entry at the bottom for

RequestTimeout=120
ActivityTimeout=120


I took a new Lenovo S10-3T which shipped with Windows 7 and reloaded it with Fedora. I was not able load Fedora via usb as i dont have a DVD/CD Drive. I followed the instructions https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and  used the live usb creator. I ended up just using an external usb DVD drive and was able to perform the install that way, I had trouble getting the ethernet and wireless interface to intialize.

To correct the broadcom BCM57780 ethernet issue… 

/etc/rc.d/rc.local file to add the following 3 lines:

rmmod tg3
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/phy/broadcom.ko
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko

Go ahead and reboot…..

The Wireless is a Broadcom bcm4312. It was fixed by doing the following….

Open a term window and become root….

su -
yum update
yum install broadcom-wl

if you have any trouble try updating repo.


rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm


Then  reboot….

The S10 that i have did not come with with bluetooth …I took it apart and found that out

So i went to BestBuy and bought a RocketFish http://www.rocketfishproducts.com/pc-169-3-rocketfish-bluetooth-micro-adapter-for-bluetooth-enabled-cell-phones-black.aspx