BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution

[arngrimurm]

Hi

I need to migrate BES from Lotus Notes 8.5.2 to Exchange 2010. Is that possible without having to wipe all devices and reregister them ?

[knottyrope]

yes

look at bnator to assist you, it is not free though

there are a few posts around on it

your current SRP and CALs willl work on the new BES server too

[arngrimurm]

but what about the Blackberry migration kit ?

[knottyrope]

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arngrimurm wrote:

but what about the Blackberry migration kit ?

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it allows you to use a new SRP and teh old SRP will be invalid after about 60-90 days or so.

it does not help with a migration to a diff mail platform.

[fermanagh]

Hey Knottyrope,

We're going to use B*Nator to migrate 6000+ users from Domino to Exchange. You mentioned that you can still keep the same SRP and CALs. How does that work?

Thanks

[knottyrope]

BES SRPs and CALs are carrier AND platform agnostic (does knot care)

[fermanagh]

I see an issue here: the same SRP used on 2 different BES will disable it. How does B*Nator get around that?

[fermanagh]

Hello again Knotty Rope,

Can you expand on my previous post?

Thanks

[knottyrope]

most people use a migration kit when they have T support with RIM

If you dont then maybe getting a spare SRP is needed.

How many SRP do you have? one BES can run 2000 users with good hardware.

[fermanagh]

We already have 4 SRP ids and 6000+ CALs currently active on our source Domino 4.1 servers and have a premium support contract with RIM.

I've never used the migration kit before but found this KB which explains it all:

http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB10945

Have you used the migration kit before?

Coming from a Domino BES background, I'll be initially putting a max of 1000 (heavy use) users on each Exchange BES 5.0.3 - however, even with top specs, I've heard that alot of Exchange houses don't pass the 1200 mark on their BES.

What's your opinion on that? Sizing etc...