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

 

 

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 third-party systems on separate

Configuration Database, messaging

LANs connected by a WAN, the upgrade process takes longer to complete.

servers, and other third-party

 

systems

 

 

 

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 in-place upgrade process.

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