Installation guide

System requirements

For information about calculating hardware requirements, visit www.blackberry.com/go/serverdocs to see the BlackBerry

Enterprise Server Capacity Calculator and BlackBerry Enterprise Server Performance Benchmarking Guide.

System requirements: BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Item Requirement

operating system Any of the following operating systems:

• Windows Server® 2003 SP1 or later

• Windows Server 2003 R2

• Windows Server 2003 (64-bit)

• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (64-bit)

• Windows Server® 2008 or later

• Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)

messaging server Any of the following applications:

• IBM® Lotus® Domino® version 7.0 with a primary Domain Directory (version

7.0.2 or later required for Windows Server 2003 [64-bit])

• IBM Lotus Domino version 8.0.0 or later with a primary Domain Directory

• IBM Lotus Domino version 8.5.0

• IBM Lotus Domino Express version 7.0

• IBM Lotus Domino Express version 8.0

32-bit IBM Lotus Domino A 32-bit IBM Lotus Domino server, even if the operating system is a 64-bit operating

system

notes.ini file A notes.ini file with the following conditions:

• read and write permissions

• SERVERKEYFILENAME value set to the server.id name

partitioning of the messaging server A nonpartitioned messaging server on the computer that you plan to install the

BlackBerry® Enterprise Server on

permissions for the messaging server A messaging server with the following permissions:

• membership in the LocalDomainServers group

• manager-level access to the mail files for user accounts

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