BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution

[Dynodos]

We have 2 new Exchange 2007 servers that when you move a mailbox to them, the blackberry server stops talking to them.  When you create a new mailbox directly on the server, it works fine.

IEMSTest comes back with OpenMsgStore failed (8004011d) for the moved mailboxes but succeeds with the new mailboxes.

If we move the mailboxes back to a server (2003 or 2007) that is working, they start working with no issues.

We opened the moved mailbox successfully with the bb admin account using outlook so the security is setup correctly.

We have checked the mapi/cdo and they are both running the same as the BB server.

We have run the handhelpcleanup -u with no success.

We are running rollup 6 on our Exchange 2007 servers and our BES is at 4.1.6.  Both the mailbox servers and the BB servers have been restarted.

I've seen other posts that are similar with a solution of building a new BB server, that is not an option as we have too many users that are working just fine.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Dynodos]

----Updated Information----

One thing we just discovered was that if the account was created directly on an exchange 2007 server anywhere in our organization and transferred to one of the servers we are having issues with, it works perfectly.

 

If the account was created on an 2003 exchange server and moved to one of these two exchange 2007 servers they are failing but if moved to any of the existing 2007 servers they are fine.

 

i.e.

testuser created on 2003 exchange works fine

moved to problem 2007 server - stops working

moved to existing 2007 server - works fine

 

example 2

testuser create on 2007 server (any including the ones we have problems with)  - works fine

moved to other 2007 server, still works

moved to problem server - still works

 

What we have noticed when the account moves from 2003 to 2007, it keeps it's exchange Admin group of the 2003 server.  This has never been an issue in the past as we have moved over 20000 accounts between 2003 and 2007 and they all have kept that 2003 exchange admin group and still worked with the BES on the existing servers.  These are the first 2 servers that we have seen this with.

[Dynodos · Accepted solution]

We found the solution to this with some help from blackberry and microsoft.  The blackberry servers could not resolve the short names of the servers.  MAPI apparently needs the short name to contact the mailbox servers.  As a temp fix we updated the local host file and it's working perfectly.

[knottyrope]

Interesting problem, and kudos to you for sharing the fix.

[bbhorrigan]

Good info