BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[smcnetserv]

Thanks, smitty!

In #1 i meant to wipe BPS and install BESX on same VM, not both products together.  But i guess it would be easier to use transporter than to recreate users from scratch.

Where do you download the Transporter?

[smitty42]

first, if you want to re-use the same VM take a look this BTSC KB: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB25679.  this is the "supported" method to migrate from BPS to BESX.

second, the Transporter is part of the BES Resource Kit but is a separate download:  https://swdownloads.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=D736BB10D83A904AEFC1D6CE93DC54B8

[smcnetserv]

Thank you, again!  Those are great resources.

As I read the upgrade article, it says to uninstall MSDE and SQL 2005 Exp will be installed along with the product.  I already have SQL 2005 Exp, do you think it'll be cleaner if I uninstall it or should I just leave it alone?

[Barkus]

Have combed through this topic but can't find the answer I'm looking for.

We're currently running BES 4.x on Exchange 2000 on Windows Server 2000 standard.  I'm trying to get all of our servers upgraded which includes all Microsoft pieces (Exchange, SQL, AD, etc.).  I was hoping that BES was one piece I could take care of myself.  I talked to RIM and they assured me that I could isntall BESX 5 on a new server and point it to my Exchange 2000 machine without problem and run the two concurrently so I could transition all of our users gradually.  

My question is, When I started installing BESX 5 on the new server (Srv2008 R2 64-bit) it started barking at me about installing the CDO piece but I'm somewhat hesitant to download and install the MAPI Client and CDO 1.2.1 because of the fact that we're running Exchange 2000.  I've read in a couple places that it's "believed" that the CDO piece just has to be an equal to or greater than version than what's running on your current Exchange to suffice.  

When I came on here I inherited this entire environment so I'm very reluctant when it comes to any pieces that I didn't personally impliment.  Furthermore, we're currently running BES on our Exchange server which, with the new environment, I'm trying to get away from.  

There's plenty of "gotcha" factors involved in doing this but I haven't read about anyone that's running BESX 5 installed on Server 2008 R2 64-bit with an Exchange 2000 mail server.  Thank you in advance and I apologize in advance if this was covered somewhere and I just missed it.  

[smcnetserv]

I have 30 users in my BPS right now... Does anyone know how long it will take for the transporter to move all to the BESX?

[smitty42]

I moved nine users at once and it took like two minutes

[jctjurinnovcom]

I just completed Option C in the migration.

The instructions for decommissioning is for BES servers and the options doesn't exist in BPS 4.1.

Are there documentation for decommissioning BPS 4.1.4 ?  do I just stop the services and run uninstall ?

(BPS 4.1.4 and Exchange 2003 on single Windows 2003 Server)

[knottyrope]

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jctjurinnovcom wrote:

I just completed Option C in the migration.

The instructions for decommissioning is for BES servers and the options doesn't exist in BPS 4.1.

Are there documentation for decommissioning BPS 4.1.4 ?  do I just stop the services and run uninstall ?

(BPS 4.1.4 and Exchange 2003 on single Windows 2003 Server)

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and remove the registry entries too if you want, they are all in one folder under RIM or research in motion.

[smitty42]

i just stopped the services and the database and left it alone.  if it isn't running it isn't doing anyhting but taking up space on the hard drive.  i plan on formatting my old BPS server to install a newer OS anyway......so why waste the time uninstalling is my thought process