BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[digitlman]

1 - can you export a policy with BESX? I see you can from the full BES as documented here: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB17422 but I know sometimes features are not available in Express. I wanted to export the policies from my BESX 5.0.2 and import them into the new BESX 5.0.3. 2 - Are there any issues with running Win 2008 R2 as the BESX OS? We are running Exchange 2003, and I know you cannot install any of the Exchange 2003 admin tools under 2008 R2.....will this be an issue? Thanks.

[knottyrope]

i have not tried to import or export policies, if that KB does apply then it is possible, try it and let us know.

Blackberry Enterprise Server compatibility chart
http://us.blackberry.com/support/software/server_compatibility.jsp#tab_tab_compatibility

for 2008 you need to use CDO

CDO 1.2.1 from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f&Displa...

KB15779 How to install or upgrade CDO 1.2.1

[digitlman]

I do have CDO 1.2.1 installed...is that all I need? I will try the policy export from one and see if I can import into the other.

[knottyrope]

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digitlman wrote:
I do have CDO 1.2.1 installed...is that all I need? I will try the policy export from one and see if I can import into the other.

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you need CDO, permission assigned to the BESAdmin service account (can use the current one with out issue) and then run the installer.

[digitlman]

Ok, so I exported the policy fine. It's really not that different from the default, so I just opened it in notepad and mirrored the settings manually in the new server.

[knottyrope]

thats good to know, thanks for sharing it.