Exchange Settings for a BlackBerry Curve

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.

Activation

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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FB Settings for the iPad

Print this articleFacebook on your iPad keeps you connected to your social platforms wherever you are. Wi-Fi connection or 3G capabilities are required for the app to work and release notifications as you specify in the settings. The settings for the iPad are similar to the iPhone and iPod Touch settings. The application downloadable to the iPad is different than setting the Facebook icon on the homepage, which bookmarks the link on Safari.

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Push notifications can be configured under the "Settings" icon on your iPad. Go into the "Settings," select "Facebook" from the left column of applications and tap 'Push Notifications" from the menu on the right side. Here you can set the button on or off for messages, wall posts, friend requests, friend confirmations, photo tags, events, comments, place tags, nearby friends and application requests. When you set the button to "On," you will get a push notification on your iPad screen each time that particular event happens.

Alerts

Alerts correspond to the push notifications you receive for messages and chat. You can set the alert to vibrate and play a default sound, just vibrate or play a sound or set them both to "Off" and check for messages and chat manually. There is a single sound for this feature, and it differs from the sound for all other push notifications.

Photo and Video

For iPads that are equipped with camera and video features, you can adjust the settings for these under "Photo and Video" in the right column under the Facebook app selection in the "Settings" area. High Definition video recording settings can be turned on or off. The video and camera features began with the iPad 2.

Home Screen

To avoid the Facebook application and log directly into the full site with all features, go into the Safari application. Enter "facebook.com" into the browser and log in with your account information. Tap the arrow icon to the left of the browser bar. A drop down with the options "Add Bookmark," "Add to Home Screen," "Mail Link to this Page" and "Print" will appear. Select the "Add to Home Screen." The Facebook logo will appear on your home screen as a direct bookmark to your account page. By tapping this icon in the future, it takes you directly to the full site on the Internet browser just as on your home computer.

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