On BES 4.x you could add the handheld's OS version to the column list and sort by that to see who was running an older version and upgrade them, is there a way to do this on BES 5

Not with BAS. Pretty much all reporting will need to be pulled from the monitoring service (or 3rd party solution). I have both a 4.1 and 5.0 environment and I heavily rely on BerryStats for reporting so I'm actually dreading when I fully move to 5.0 as reporting is just not as clean and easy.

I've been to a few RIM events and a TON of feedback has griped about the BAS GUI. The old interface was basically a SQL view so it's not entirely out of the realm of offering so of that back at some point (praying)

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that would be awesome if they brought back the old interface, it was so much faster and easier to use....and its not just getting use to a new one, ive used BAS for 4 months now, and it sucks for getting info, or exporting lists, etc...

We have BoxTone for monitoring and it can do basic info query / admin tasks as well as instant report generation to html or pdf files. It uses a dynamic flash environment too that is pretty responsive. It takes some of the pain away from having to log into BAS to do everything. Not a salesman, or getting a kickback, but if you can justify the cost for it it is a great little product.