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3: Preparing your BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment for upgrade
Before you upgrade to BlackBerry Enterprise Server Version 4.1.4, make sure that all BlackBerry Enterprise Servers
in your environment that share a BlackBerry Configuration Database are Version 4.0.3 or higher. Certain
components in earlier versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server are not optimized for use with the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server Version 4.1.4.
Perform system maintenance
Perform system maintenance to help minimize the upgrade time and to help promote an uninterrupted upgrade
and user migration.
> Remove inactive user accounts, including their old state databases, from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
See the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino Version 4.0 Administration Guide for more
information.
Back up system information
> Perform the following actions:
Back up the BlackBerry Configuration Database
If your database environment is Microsoft SQL Server, use the backup and restore tools provided by Microsoft.
If your database environment is MSDE 2000, you can use the BlackBerry Database Backup tool that is provided
with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software to perform a full backup of the BlackBerry Configuration
Database. By default, the backup file is named <database name><YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>.bak.
1. On the server on which the BlackBerry Configuration Database is located, at the command prompt, switch to
the Tools folder in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation media.
2. Type BlackBerryDBBackup.exe.
Action Procedure
Back up the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
registry settings.
1. On the computer on which you plan to upgrade the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, open
the Registry Editor.
2. In the left pane, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Research In Motion.
3. Back up all the registry keys.
Back up the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
log files.
1. Back up the BlackBerry Enterprise Server log files to another computer.
2. Delete the log files from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server computer.