Exchange Settings for a BlackBerry Curve

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BlackBerry devices can be configured to synchronized Microsoft Exchange accounts.

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One of the many features available to BlackBerry Curve users is the ability to synchronize email accounts on the device. Many schools and companies offer their employees Microsoft Exchange accounts. Once the Curve is configured, Exchange email accounts are automatically synchronized with the server. Therefore, you can be notified as soon as a new email arrives in your Inbox.

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Microsoft Exchange accounts are given to employees by their company IT departments. These accounts give employees access to company email accounts, along with features such as calendars. Exchange accounts are often used in business settings to allow employees access to their accounts on different network computers and third-party devices such as BlackBerry devices.

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Before you can configure a BlackBerry, your company or school's IT department must create an Exchange account for you. Central to an Exchange account is an email address. The email address and the account's password are used to configure access to your Exchange account on the BlackBerry Curve. Without an email address and password, you will not be able use the BlackBerry to check an Exchange account.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server

BlackBerry Enterprise Service is one of two ways of configuring BlackBerry devices to connect to a Microsoft Exchange account. By using this procedure instead of the "BlackBerry Internet Service," you merely need to enter your Exchange account email address and password. You do not need to enter any server information, as the device automatically obtains these settings once you enter the email address and password. BlackBerry devices can only have a single BES profile configured on the account.

BlackBerry Internet Service

The "BlackBerry Internet Service" is the second method used to configure Exchange accounts. Because BlackBerry devices can only have one Exchange account configured using BlackBerry Enterprise Server, additional accounts must be configured using BlackBerry Internet Service. When you configure the device using BIS, the device does not automatically download the server settings. Therefore, you need the account's email address, password and the address of the Incoming Mail Server. The Incoming Mail Server setting is a Web address used to download messages to the device.

ReferencesMicrosoft: What is a Microsoft Exchange Server Account?Northwestern University: BlackBerry - Account ConfigurationBlackBerry: BlackBerry Curve 8330 User GuidePhoto Credit David McNew/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesRead Next:

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