BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[faisalnk]

Hi Guys

Just a quick question. My compoany has decided to take off BES4.1 and reinstall BES Express 5 on our current server.

I was just wondering if this is something easier to do. I am aware that we may have to reactivate devices and may have to reset the phones as well

we currently have

SQL server 2005.

Server 2003 hardware specification:

Intel Xeon CPU E 3113 3.00 GHz

3.99GB RAM

500GB HDD

Do you think this is good enough to install Blackberry server Express for around 55 users

Please Advise

Faisal

[knottyrope]

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faisalnk wrote:

Hi Guys

Just a quick question. My compoany has decided to take off BES4.1 and reinstall BES Express 5 on our current server.

I was just wondering if this is something easier to do. I am aware that we may have to reactivate devices and may have to reset the phones as well

we currently have

SQL server 2005.

Server 2003 hardware specification:

Intel Xeon CPU E 3113 3.00 GHz

3.99GB RAM

500GB HDD

Do you think this is good enough to install Blackberry server Express for around 55 users

Please Advise

Faisal

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Do you have raid 1? if yes then you should be good with that.

BES Express 5 press release
http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=3546

About BES Express 5

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/business/server/express/

Any of the following operating systems:
• Windows Server® 2003 SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows® Small Business Server 2003
• Windows Small Business Server 2008
• Windows Small Business Server 2011

Free SRP, yes FREE!
Free 10000 CALs (2k per server) again FREE!
BIS or BES dataplan will work on it.
MAX 75 users when installed on the exchange server.
Over 50 IT policies (remote wipe included)
Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 suppoted

Over The Air Enterprise Activation for Bes Express 5 with BIS

 http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Professional-Software/Activating-Devices-That-are-...

BlackBerry Balance
http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/business/server/full/balance.jsp

BES/SBE/BPS 4.x upgrade options to BES Express 5.0

[faisalnk]

Thanks for your reply

Is raid 1 a requirement for BES express 5?

[knottyrope]

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faisalnk wrote:

Thanks for your reply

Is raid 1 a requirement for BES express 5?

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Yes, it improves on reads. I hope you have some form on RAID on your server. Raid 5 will be ok.