Upgrade Planning Guide | Upgrading a BlackBerry Domain | |
Upgrading a BlackBerry Domain |
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If you upgrade a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server environment that includes more than one BlackBerry Enterprise Server instance, you can choose from a variety of upgrade processes, depending on the existing architecture of the BlackBerry Domain and how you expect the architecture to change as you add BlackBerry device users, install additional BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and instances, and configure new features.
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. |
network proximity of the BlackBerry | If you configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Configuration |
Enterprise Server, BlackBerry | Database, messaging servers, and other |
Configuration Database, messaging | LANs connected by a WAN, the upgrade process takes longer to complete. |
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Planning to upgrade the BlackBerry Domain when your organization's infrastructure is in one location
If you previously installed the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server instances, BlackBerry Configuration Database, and messaging servers on a single LAN and want to limit the infrastructure changes during the upgrade process, you can use an
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