BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[ccoho]

I'm sorry if I missed this somewhere, but I read through the thread and didn't see this.  I'm in the process of installing BES Express on my new exchange server.  I have not yet moved any mailboxes to this exchagne server.  I am at the point in BES install - "MAPI Settings" - where it wants my Exchange server info.  I assume for exchange server I need to enter NewServerName, but what about mailbox?  Do I need to create a new BES mailbox or should I use the same mailbox I used in 4.1?  If I enter NewServerName and OldMailbox Name and click "Check Name", it automatically changes the server name to be OldServerName, I'm assuming this is because that is where that mailbox is stored.  Should I move that mailbox to the new server?  Will that cause issues with BES 4.1 continuing to work?  Can I install as OldServerName and OldMailboxName and later change these once I've moved all users?

Thanks

[oneInTen]

I'm leaning toward implementing option C. Does the new BES installation has to be installed on it's own domain? Reading the description of the Tranporter tool: "Used to move one or more user accounts from a BlackBerry Domain to a different BlackBerry Domain"

That confuses me a bit.  Any thoughts?

Thanks

[knottyrope]

yes it has to be installed on a new database/BlackBerry domain

[oneInTen]

Thanks for the quick reply.

If something goes wrong during the migration, can the user still use his old profile on the BES 4.1 or do they have to wipe the device and resynch?

Thanks

[knottyrope]

you can use transporter to move the user back to old server

[oneInTen]

Ok, thanks much

[mbu]

We have a BES 4.1.4 server connecting with a Exchange 2003 with 20 BES users.

Currently we put a new Exchange 2010 server into the domain, but no user mailbox is on it yet. Right now we are looking for replacing the BES 4.1.4 with BES express 75 Users edition.

My question is:

1. Where should I install the BES express? On Exchange 2010 box or on a seperate box? If I install it on a seperate box, will it still be free?

2. My current BES service account is Besadmin. Should I use the same Besadmin account to install BES express, or I need to create another service account for it?

3. If I use the same BESadmin account for BES express, I have to keep its mailbox on Exchange 2003 server until I move all of BES users' mailboxes to exchange 2010, delete them from BES 4.1.4 and recreate them on BES express. Will it affect any functionality of BES express?

4. How long can the BES 4.1.4 and BES express coexist in the system with their own database, managing their own BES users?

[knottyrope]

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mbu wrote:

We have a BES 4.1.4 server connecting with a Exchange 2003 with 20 BES users.

Currently we put a new Exchange 2010 server into the domain, but no user mailbox is on it yet. Right now we are looking for replacing the BES 4.1.4 with BES express 75 Users edition.

My question is:

1. Where should I install the BES express? On Exchange 2010 box or on a seperate box? Your choice so long as you have 1.5 gig RAM free.If I install it on a seperate box, will it still be free?

2. My current BES service account is Besadmin. Should I use the same Besadmin account to install BES express, or I need to create another service account for it? Can use the same

3. If I use the same BESadmin account for BES express, I have to keep its mailbox on Exchange 2003 server until I move all of BES users' mailboxes to exchange 2010, delete them from BES 4.1.4 and recreate them on BES express. Will it affect any functionality of BES express? It shoudl not affect it when you move it.

4. How long can the BES 4.1.4 and BES express coexist in the system with their own database, managing their own BES users? Forever

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[mbu]

Thanks for the rapid reply. So I am taking plan c. Here is my plan. Please correct it if I am wrong.

1. Creat a new service account and have its mailbox on my Exchange 2010.

2. Install BES express on a new box with a new database using the new service account

3. Delete a BES user's account from my old BES 4.1.4 server, and wipe out the handheld device

4. Creat a new BES account for the deleted BES user on BES express server and resync the device

5. Move the user's mailbox from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010

6. Do it for every BES user

7. After all of BES users accounts have beev recreated on BES express server, decommision and uninstall the BES 4.1.4

The disadvantage of this plan is, the BES users can only get their last 30 days of email resynced. Is there any shortcut or any other better way that I can do it with?

Thanks

[sockpuppet]

I'm currently running the 1 user Blackberry server V4.1 on a win2003 & exchange2003 server.

We are looking at getting another 2 blackberrys and I was wondering if instead of uninstalling BPS4.1 and installing the BESX 5.0 if I could remove the one user license from BPS4.1 and then add the BESX 5.0 license to enable me to add another 2 users? Or if there is any way to expand the BPS4.1 license to add more than 1 user?