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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)

Microsoft® Exchange system tools Any of the following system tools:

• Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 System Manager

• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI client and CDO 1.2.1

Microsoft Exchange organization of the

system tools for the messaging server

The same Microsoft Exchange organization that the messaging server uses

CDO library To support the latest Microsoft Exchange version in your organization's

environment, the latest version of the CDO library that applies to that version

Unicode support for calendars To support Microsoft Exchange 2003, the following Microsoft hotfixes:

• 913643 on the messaging server

• 923537 on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server

Internet Service Manager To support Microsoft Exchange 2007 when using Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2

System Manager, the Internet Service Manager component of Microsoft® IIS

database conditions for the BlackBerry®

MDS Integration Service

A database server that hosts the BlackBerry Configuration Database

static IP address for the computer To install the BlackBerry MDS Integration Service or the BlackBerry Administration

Service in a pool, a static IP address for the computer

browser Windows® Internet Explorer® version 6.0 or later with the following settings:

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