BlackBerry® Professional Software and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express

[paklun]

I am gonna setup a brand new BES Express for my company.

And here are my config:

Windows Server 2008 with Exchange 2010

BES Express will be installed seperately into a workstation(which i will buy for my company)

Server will support less than 75 blackbnerry users

Here's  problem i encounter:

I know not if I should set BES Express onto a virtual machine

what are the PROS and CONS either way?

[oliwer · Accepted solution]

BES does not support Workstation OS - you need a server OS-

And there are no special Pros and Cons for a BES in a virtual machine other then Pros and Cons of a virtual machine in general

[paklun]

thank you very much, so i am gonna install server 2008 r2 and BES Express 5.0.3 on a server is enough? no virtual machine required? thanks

[oliwer · Accepted solution]

You can install BES Express on the Windows Server (even on the server with your Exchange if you really want to). If you have a virtual machine, you can use that as well - for BES its not a real difference.

[knottyrope · Accepted solution]

If not listed here dont try it.

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

[paklun]

Thank you all!!!