Installation guide

System requirements: Firewall

To install the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, a firewall or proxy firewall with the following conditions:

• exclusive use of port 3101 to open and maintain an outgoing, two-way TCP/IP connection to an external server

• support for the resolution of Internet addresses that use DNS

• for proxy firewalls, transparency of the proxy server

System requirements: Instant messaging server

To install the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, any of the following instant messaging servers:

• IBM® Lotus® Sametime® version 6.5.1 Community Server

• IBM Lotus Sametime version 7.0 Community Server

• IBM Lotus Sametime version 7.5 Community Server

• IBM Lotus Sametime version 8.0 Community Server

• Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Standard or Enterprise

• Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Standard or Enterprise

• Novell® GroupWise® Messenger version 2.0 or later

Supported features and environments

Item Description

virtual environment The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Enterprise Server components

support the following virtual environments:

• VMware® ESX Server version 2.5.2 or later

• VMware ESX Server version 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, or 3.5

enhanced network authentication The BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Enterprise Server components

support RSA® Authentication Agent version 5.0 for Windows®.

multiple IBM® Lotus® Domino®

domains

The BlackBerry Messaging Agent supports multiple IBM Lotus Domino domains

with the following conditions:

• the IBM Lotus Domino server configured on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server

computer with the Connection documents for the other IBM Lotus Domino

servers in the domains that the server replicates from, and membership in the

LocalDomainServers group in all the domains in your organization's

environment

Upgrade Guide

System requirements: Firewall