A few of us have been trying to get our heads round some of the new updates to BES 4.1 SP5 this week. While we have covered the unknown territory that is HTML email, one of the other highly anticipated updates has been OTASL (Over The Air Software Loading).
For those that don’t know, this is the devices ability to receive firmware updates remotely rather than an IT department having to collect users devices to perform the upgrades centrally (as currently happens). According to RIM’s documentation you need to have Service Pack 5 on your BES and you need the latest 4.3/4.5 device firmware. What’s odd is that there’s nowhere on the BES to configure OTASL, leaving us wondering if this is purely an update which happens between the device and RIM’s own servers. Not ideal (unless you’re a BIS user) as this takes ownership away from the IT department, but it is early days and perhaps they’ll be a separate ‘device management’ console (as used to be in BES 4.0) to install which will deal with this. In the meantime, have a guess!
Its my perhaps faulty understanding that once the BES management console sees devices that it can actually upgrade, then these options start appearing…
—* Bill
http://www.notesberry.org
Do we know if the new CDMA 8330 Curve will have this BES 4.1 SP5 already installed when it is released?
(BIS-user) I am wondering why this servicebook is installed unannounced by my IT-dep (vodafone dutch) on a 8700-series-model. It seems to me, the device is by then fully under control by
Them/rim as it offers no options for control by users who are not used to the interface-commu
Queriing for explanation, i got no answer (several times).
Options might be to send OTA commercial keyhole-ware for ad-purposes and thelike, or more bad things.
It would fit “closed source”-behaviour which slows down a lot (using the overhead mem myself would speed up a lot, saving my own time).
I.E. GMaps ran fairly well first time, but instead of speeding up, it slowed down each upgrade. When trying out it loads a lot of yellowbook-contents,
Making fuzzylogic searches in GMaps overwhelmed, causing more useless results.
After all it must be a good thing in good management, but at first: under my own control.