I'll second 2008 - though, R2 - 64 bit (R2 lacks a 32 bit counterpart if I'm not mistaken). Go for the cutting edge, no reason not to.
Out of a desire not to disrupt service for the top person in the organization on the BPS, I put our BESX on a virtualized, highly available (Hyper-V cluster) 2008 R2 box, leaving the existing BPS in service at the time. No problems whatsoever, runs beautifully. We didn't migrate to 2010 - still on 2007. When it came time to take BPS offline, I was able to migrate the lone user on it using the Transporter. The only weird thing was actually setting up the BESX. The setup application for some reason just took forever to launch, as did the 5.0.2 upgrade, almost like it hung. But once it was going, it ran pretty smoothly from there. -- Alex Wilshaw Email: [email protected] Google Voice/Mobile: 716.202.8022 On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:45 PM, hdawg <[email protected]> wrote: > Go to 2008 > > 64-bit > > Personally, I’m a fan of a knife-edge to a new OS instance > > > > Overall experience: get ready to learn how to administer BES all over again > with the BAS / webconsole. > > > > I’d highly recommend reading the install guide in its entirety and give the > system admin guide a good review … you won’t have any “gotchas” if you do > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ceron, Carlos > *Sent:* Friday, October 15, 2010 3:34 PM > *To:* 'A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. ( > [email protected])' > *Subject:* [Bes-admins] Upgrading to BES v5 > > > > We’ll be upgrading our domain to 2008 and to Exchange 2010. I was wondering > if anyone could give some insight as to your experiences with going to 2008 > domain and/or Exchange 2010 with BES. > > > > At the same time I’ll be upgrading our BES from v4 to v5. What > recommendations do you have about going to BES v5. Would you recommend it > being on 2008? 32 or 64bit? In place upgrade? Overall experiences migrating > from BES v4 to v5. > > > > thanks > > > > * * > > * * > > *Carlos Ceron* > Network Analyst > Office of Technology and Information Services > The University of Texas System > Phone: (512) 579-5064 > Fax: (512) 499-4599 > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bes-Admins mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins > http://www.dataoutages.com > http://www.dataoutagenews.com > RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins > --------------------------------- > Bes-Admins mailing list is sponsored by Dataoutagenews.com. > http://www.dataoutagenews.com >
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