Blackbe;rry CLIENT FOR USE WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER 2007 2.5.40 -... Instruction Manual

BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007 2.5.40
Version: 2.5.40
Release Notes

Published: 2010-08-23
SWD-1264832-0823124942-001

Contents
1 Fixed issues................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
2 Known issues................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
3Related resources........................................................................................................................................................................ 7
4Legal notice.................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

Fixed issues 1
Users with BlackBerry® Device Software 4.5 and 4.6, had an incorrect instant messaging icon that appeared in the task
switcher. (DT 765914)
Users could send an instant message to themselves and the error message displayed was vague. (DT 758523)
Home screen indicators did not accurately reflect the user's availability. (DT 745727)
User alerts for sign in and sign out did not always work. (DT 745407)
Users with BlackBerry® Device Software 6.0 could not save a contact's display picture. (DT 744820)
The status indicators and new unread message indicator for instant messages were not displayed correctly in the Messages
application. (DT 710598)
When a user in a chat session invited a third participant, the third participant did not receive an alert until a message was sent
by one of the conference participants. (DT 705146)
When a user clicked on the placeholder display picture for a contact, the cancel function did not work as expected. (DT 695336)
When a user set a personal note it disappeared when the user signed out and signed back in. (DT 694047)
The device became unresponsive after leaving it idle and unlocking it, when content protection was turned on. (DT 689370)
When a user signed in to the instant messaging client from two different devices, the error message shown was incorrect. (DT
689320)
The current location for a user was not displayed on the My Info or the Contact Info screen. (DT 681984)
The Help menu item was not available on the Options screen. (DT 665015)
The Send IM to Other function was not clear for a user. (DT 660617)
The Contacts application displayed the offline status indicator for a linked contact that was online, for users using BlackBerry
Device Software 6.0. (654897)
The instant messaging icon in the task switcher and on the Home screen was not displayed correctly. It was much smaller
than the other icons. (DT 652828)
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When content protection was turned on, the user's personal note was involuntarily changed to <Content Protection is enabled>.
(DT 648719)
The icons for the Clear alert and Switch conversation options in the menu were incomplete. (DT 630210)
The Sign In As drop-down list included cut-off text. (DT 630141)
After adding a contact, the contact was displayed in both the Offline section and the Pending section. (DT 628764)
When users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 blocked a contact, the contact could not be unblocked and appeared in the
blocked group until the user signed out and signed back in again. (DT 628247)
Users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0, users could link a contact in the Contacts application more than once, which
resulted in multiple instances of the instant message option showing in the menu. (DT 628165)
When adding a contact, users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 were not prompted to link the contact to with the Contacts
application. (DT 628136)
Users wiith BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 had an Instant Messaging option in the menu of the Contacts application for
contacts that were not linked with any instant messaging clients. (DT 628113)
Users sometimes could not show the keyboard when opening a chat session from the message list. (DT 617164)
Users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 could not show the keyboard when creating a custom status or creating a custom
location. (DT 599558)
When a user added a custom status when there was an existing personal note, it caused the personal note to clear. (DT 545280)
There was no character limit for the custom status field on the My Info screen. A very long status (thousands of characters)
could cause unexpected behavior on the user's device and the devices of the user's contacts. (DT 526614)
After a user created a Custom Status, the actual status and the checked status in the My Status drop-down list were not
consistent. (DT 526575)
If a user had a login password with greater than 15 characters, they could not be automatically logged in to the instant
messaging client. (DT 510025)
When a user added a contact to the Other/All Contacts list who existed in the BlackBerry contact list and had a display picture,
the contact showed up twice in the contact lists. (DT 507335)
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Duplicate add requests appeared on the device when a user closed the add request dialog box on the client on a computer.
(DT 502129)
The contact status message did not display when highlighting a user with a long status message. (DT 501973)
Alerts set on the client on a computer persisted on the device if the alert was cleared on the device. (DT 499266)
When a user tagged a contact that had enhanced presence turned on, the user received Contact is Available alerts on the
client on a computer when the contact was idle. (DT 483822)
Users received an IllegalState/ClassCast exception error message when they received certain messages after their device
exited dormant mode. (DT 479572)
When a user sent messages from both the device and the desktop client to the same contact, the messages were combined
in one chat session. Multiple distinct conversations with the same contact were not possible. (DT 453062)
The emoticon edges appeared pixilated compared to emoticons in other instant messaging clients. (DT 450348)
In French, the word "hors" was truncated in the Status drop-down list of the My Info screen. (DT 430090)
In Italian, there was an untranslated string that appeared in the menu during a group conversation. (DT 430088)
In Italian, no ellipsis appeared at the end of the Connecting... message. (DT 430087)
When a user sent messages to a contact whose status was set to Do Not Disturb, the user only received an error message after
sending the first message to a contact. (DT 425229)
After a user ended a conversation, an un-cleared notification continued to display. (DT 424536)
A duplicate group was created when a user added a contact to a group while the group was being deleted. (DT 392358)
Users could not swipe from an add request to the instant messaging message list. (DT 357574)
Linguistic errors appeared in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese. (DT 356751)
When a user copied and pasted text that included symbols or emoticons into an instant message, a square symbol appeared
in front of the pasted message in the client on a computer. (DT 355174)
Users with BlackBerry Device Software 6.0 could not add a contact using the lookup feature. (DT 354676)
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A blank error message appeared when a user sent a message in a conference that all of the participants had already left. (DT
353462)
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Known issues 2
After a user removes custom locations and selects Do not show a location, the previous custom location still appears in the
location field. (DT 566239)
The custom status appears on the contact list screen but does not appear on the Contact Info screen. (DT 565407)
Users cannot remove BlackBerry® Client for use with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 from a device once it
has been deployed as a required application. (DT 539233)
Users cannot send messages in a conference after all participants have left the conference. (DT 353483)
After opening the custom status screen, moving the trackball or track pad up moves the focus to the top of the screen instead
of to the item just above the current item. (DT 347722)
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Related resources 3
Guide Information
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature
and Technical Overview
• BlackBerry® Enterprise Server features
• system architecture
• process flows
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Installation and Configuration Guide
• upgrade considerations
• installation instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade
Planning Guide
• system requirements
• environment-specific configurations
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade
Guide
• system requirements
• upgrade instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise ServerPlanning
Guide
• high-availability considerations
• high-availability configurations
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Administration Guide
• system setup and management
• BlackBerry device configuration
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Monitoring Guide
• monitoring information
• monitoring service instructions
BlackBerry Device Software Update
Guide
• BlackBerry® Device Software update methods
• update instructions
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Policy
Reference Guide
• descriptions of IT policy rules
• descriptions of application control policy rules
• configuration settings
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Security
Technical Overview
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server security information
• security process flows
For more information about the new collaboration client features, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Feature and Technical
Overview.
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