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BES, BESX, BESE, BPS …user with admin rights

subtitle “Send As issue with Administrator accounts
(users who are Enterprise and/or Domain Administrator accounts)”

for a long while there has been a known issue whenever BlackBerry Server (whatever flavor) is configured for a user with admin rights.  The workaround is below and is primarily credited to awesome Aussie Gary Cutri’s work:

GaryCutri clip_image002 Moderator

Join Date: Sep 2006, Location: Melbourne, Posts: 1,895

To correct the "Send As" issue I have outlined the steps I use to quickly resolve this issue:

1. Stop the Blackberry Router service.

2. Open Active Directory and from the View menu select "Advanced Features". Then go to each user that will be added to the BES and open their properties, go to the security tab and add the user BESadmin and add the security permission "Send As".

3. Run the following script logged on as Administrator

Note: Only use this step if you have BlackBerry users that are members of Admin groups. Using best practice methods it is recomended that mobile user accounts aren’t members of any administration groups.

dsacls "cn=adminsdholder,cn=system,dc=domainname,dc=com" /G "DOMAINNAME\BESadmin:CA;Send As"

Example 1: dsacls "cn=adminsdholder,cn=system,dc=experts-exchange,dc=com" /G "EXPERTS_EXCHANGE\BESadmin:CA;Send As"

Example 2: dsacls "cn=adminsdholder,cn=system,dc=blackberryforums,dc=com,dc=au" /G "BLACKBERRYFORUMS\BESadmin:CA;Send As"

Example 3: dsacls "cn=adminsdholder,cn=system,dc=mobilenetwork,dc=local" /G "MOBILENETWORK.local\BESadmin:CA;Send As"

NOTE: dsacls can be found in the Windows Server 2003 SP1 Support Tools pack: Download details: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 32-bit Support Tools

4. Wait 20 minutes and then restart the BlackBerry Router service.

5. Restart the BES server.

Pasted (with minor edits) from <http://www.blackberryforums.com.au/forums/microsoft-exchange/1178-unlisted-message-error-desktop-email-program-unable-submit-message.html>

**** so why all the waiting and restarting needed above?  …read more****

Re: AdminSDHolder

The AdminSDHolder container is a special container object inside of the System container in Active Directory. The basic function of AdminSDHolder is exactly what it says it does – it holds the Access Control List (ACL) for every admin account. This container is just a template. Once every hour, the DC that holds the PDC Emulator role goes through every account that is in built-in Administrators group and checks the ACL for each user object. It compares this ACL to that of the AdminSDHolder container and if any Access Control Entry (ACE) is different, it rips out the old ACL and copies the ACL from the AdminSDHolder over to it.

The purpose of AdminSDHolder is to prevent against a specific attack scenario. Active Directory is extremely flexible down to it’ s most granular level. Because of this, a user can have ‘write access’ to anything inside of a specific OU. If an admin account is moved to an OU that a non-admin has rights to, he could give himself privileged access to the admin account. AdminSDHolder tries to prevent this from happening by continuously refreshing the ACL on an admin account.

Re: Stopping the BlackBerry Router Service

Stopping the BlackBerry Router allows the Exchange Servers to clear the cached permissions for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server administration account. I am currently investigating various methods to expedite this process (e.g Restarting the Information Store Service).

Pasted from <http://www.blackberryforums.com.au/forums/microsoft-exchange/1178-unlisted-message-error-desktop-email-program-unable-submit-message.html>

BMDS errors galore – after removing old Java version from BES server

If you see a wild spike in your Application Log in the magnitude of thousands of critical errors from the source BMDS (error 0), then you likely just removed Java.

Actually you specifically removed an older version that your BES was pointing to in a registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BlackBerry MDS Connection Service

In the ImagePath String Value you’ll find what needs changed.  Here is an example of such a value :

“D:\Program Files\Research in Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\bin\bmds.exe” -s jvmpath=”C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\client\jvm.dll” -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Xss64K -Xmx768M -Xms128M classpathdir=”D:\Program Files\Research in Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\classpath\\” wrkdir=”D:\Program Files\Research in Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\Servers\SERVER1\\” webserverdir=”D:\Program Files\Research in Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\webserver\\” -rbes “SERVER1_MDS-CS_1″

That assumes that the BES server’s name is SERVER1.  Let’s say you just installed JAVA Runtime Engine version 1.6.07 on the server and removed all earlier versions.  Your path would need to reflect this version as it does above.

***this path has been updated as of Java 6.10:  http://duitwithsbs.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/blackberry-server-software-mds-java-update-mayhem/ ***

Kudos to Armando Diaz for his Event ID contribution:  http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=0&eventno=8647&source=BMDS&phase=1