I broke down and paid for the BB installation assistance which comes with a 1 year maintenance plan (It's the cost of yearly service) There level 1 is almost worthless.
I have 2003 Exchange and went from BES 4.0 to 5.0 on to a different 2003 server (which should have made it easy). I did have problems with SPK3 due to a windows zipped file size problem , but there's a windows hot fix that resolves that issue. During the install I had to call BB three times because of installation errors, not to scare you but I was on a time crunch and it was on the weekend. The funny thing was that I prepped for a month checking all the posts and was still T-boned by the installation. If you have BES installed on the Exchange server (not a good practice- removed mine instance off exchange in 2007) you may want to change that. Make sure to make a copy the mapi and that it needs to match what is on the Exchange server if BES is on another server/VM instance. Also I had the Exchange system manager on the BES server, and it was not updated so I had to uninstall and reinstall a current version. Good Luck David Burns Systems Administrator From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yasar Er Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 3:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bes-admins] Upgrade BES 4.1.7 to Bes Express 5.0 Hi I am novice on Blackberry and need assistance to migrate users from v 4.1.7 to v5.0 in a Virtal environment. Less than 100 users and want to migrate users with minimum fuss and if I can avoid it no activation. We have Exchange 2007 installed in V Ware. Essentially when I logon to current BES I can see that Exchange management shell is installed so do I need to install this onto the new BES Express too ? I have been reading forums and closest example that meets my environment and needs are posted here: http://www.blackberryforums.com/bes-admin-corner/218514-moving-bes-4-1-6 -9-bes-5-0-1-different-server.html >From what I can understand need to install the new BES, using SRP & license from old server stopping services running on the old one 1st, then install the admin management , use Blackberry Transportto migrate users, then point to use current configuration database files and voila all done. Is this about right ? any assistance will be much appreciated.
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