Upgrade Planning GuideUpgrading a standalone BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Upgrading a standalone BlackBerry Enterprise 4 Server
If your organization includes fewer than 500 BlackBerry® device users and you manage the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server from a central location, it is possible that you installed a standalone BlackBerry Enterprise Server with its own BlackBerry Configuration Database.
Before you upgrade a standalone BlackBerry Enterprise Server, consider the following questions:
•Do you expect the number of BlackBerry device users to increase beyond 500?
•Do you plan to add BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment?
•Do you plan to consolidate the standalone BlackBerry Enterprise Server with another BlackBerry Domain in your organization's environment?
To consolidate multiple BlackBerry Domain instances in your organization's environment (for example, to make management of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server easier or permit multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances to use distributed BlackBerry Enterprise Server components), you can use the BlackBerry Enterprise Transporter to move user accounts from one BlackBerry Configuration Database to another.
You can consider the following infrastructure variations as you plan the upgrade process for your organization's environment.
Variation | Description |
MSDE or Microsoft® SQL Server® | If your organization's environment includes MSDE, you must upgrade to a |
used to host the BlackBerry | later version of Microsoft SQL Server. |
Configuration Database | You can upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server Express if your organization's |
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| environment does not include many BlackBerry device users and you do not |
| plan to add any more. |
| You can upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server if you expect the number of |
| BlackBerry device users to increase to more than 500. |
| You can upgrade the database server that hosts the BlackBerry |
| Configuration Database before you upgrade the BlackBerry Enterprise |
| Server. |
BlackBerry Configuration Database | If you expect the number of BlackBerry device users to increase, you might |
installed locally or on a separate | want to install the BlackBerry Configuration Database on its own computer. |
computer | When you install the BlackBerry Configuration Database on its own |
| computer, you increase the system resources that are available to the |
| BlackBerry Configuration Database and BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and |
| make it easier to configure features such as high availability. |
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For information about maintaining the existing infrastructure and upgrading a standalone BlackBerry Enterprise Server, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrade Guide.
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