1: Planning to upgrade your BlackBerry environment

Choosing a BlackBerry Enterprise Server upgrade option

Upgrade option

Description

Advantages

Disadvantages

User impact

Upgrade the BlackBerry

The in-place upgrade

• you do not require

• you cannot remove

BlackBerry devices

Enterprise Server using an

process installs BlackBerry

additional computers

BlackBerry Enterprise

 

running BlackBerry®

in-place process.

Enterprise Server Version

to perform this

Server Version 4.1.4

 

Device Software

 

4.1.4 over the existing

upgrade

and return to the

 

Version 4.0 or later

 

version.

• when the upgrade

earlier version

 

receive new service

 

 

completes, user

automatically

 

books and wireless

 

 

accounts are active

• you turn off the

 

synchronization

 

 

and no additional

BlackBerry Enterprise

 

occurs

 

 

administrative action

Server during the

all BlackBerry devices

 

 

is required

upgrade, so the

 

receive new IT policies

BlackBerry service interruption lasts for as long as the upgrade process

• if you upgrade from a version earlier than BlackBerry Enterprise Server Version 4.0, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server takes longer than it did previously to start because it sends new service books to all the BlackBerry devices that are capable of wireless synchronization

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Blackberry 4.1.4 manual Choosing a BlackBerry Enterprise Server upgrade option