Contents
1Planning your BlackBerry environment .................................................... ....................................................... 7
Choosing a BlackBerry Enterprise Server setup type...................................................................................7
Upgrading the BlackBerry Enterprise Server...............................................................................................9
2System requirements....... ............................................................................... .................................................... 11
Hardware requirements...................................................................................................................................11
System requirements for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.......................................................................11
Checklist: Operating system requirements .........................................................................................12
Checklist: Messaging and collaboration server software requirements .........................................13
Checklist: Security support requirements............................................................................................13
Checklist: Multidomain support requirements....................................................................................14
Checklist: Multilanguage support requirements.................................................................................14
Checklist: Virtual machine support requirements...............................................................................14
Checklist: Additional software requirements.......................................................................................14
System requirements for your corporate environment..............................................................................14
Checklist: Network environment settings............................................................................................15
Checklist: Messaging and collaboration environment settings........................................................15
Checklist: Instant messaging environment settings...........................................................................16
Checklist: Terminal service settings......................................................................................................16
Checklist: Database environment settings...........................................................................................17
System requirements for remote components............................................................................................18
Checklist: BlackBerry MDS Services system requirements ...............................................................19
Checklist: BlackBerry Enterprise Server with the BlackBerry MDS Services system requirements
19
Checklist: BlackBerry Attachment Service system requirements.....................................................21
Checklist: BlackBerry Manager system requirements....................................................................... 22
Checklist: BlackBerry Router system requirements...........................................................................23
Checklist: BlackBerry MDS Connection Service system requirements........................................... 23
Checklist: BlackBerry Collaboration Service system requirements.................................................24
3Configuring your environment................................... ............................................................................. .........25
Enabling the messaging environment to communicate with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server........ 25
Create the BlackBerryAdmins group....................................................................................................25