2: System requirements

Checklist: BlackBerry Router system requirements

System

Considerations

 

requirement

 

 

 

operating

Install one of the following operating systems on the computer on which you plan to install the BlackBerry

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system

Router:

 

 

• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Server or Advanced Server editions)

 

 

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003

 

 

• Microsoft Windows XP

 

additional

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3.0 or later so that you can view the product guides.

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software

Install Microsoft XML Parser Version 4.0 SP2 or later. You can install this program during the BlackBerry

 

 

 

 

Enterprise Server installation.

 

network

You can install the BlackBerry Router in a perimeter network (demilitarized zone).

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environment

Verify that the firewall settings permit the BlackBerry Router computer to initiate a two-way TCP/IP connection

 

settings

 

to an external server on port 3101.

 

 

 

 

Verify that the corporate firewall can resolve Internet addresses using the DNS.

 

 

Verify that the proxy is transparent, if you are using a proxying firewall.

 

 

 

 

Checklist: BlackBerry MDS Connection Service system requirements

System

Considerations

 

requirement

 

 

 

operating

Install one of the following operating systems on the computer on which you plan to install the BlackBerry MDS

†

system

Connection Service:

 

 

• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Server or Advanced Server editions)

 

 

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003

 

 

• Microsoft Windows XP

 

security

If you are using RSA SecurID authentication, you must install the Security Dynamics Technologies Ace/Agent

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support

for Microsoft Windows Version 5.0 on the computer on which you plan to install the BlackBerry MDS Connection

 

 

Service.

 

additional

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3.0 or later so that you can view the product guides.

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software

 

 

 

 

 

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Blackberry Enterprise Server manual Checklist BlackBerry Router system requirements, Support

Enterprise Server specifications

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