Prerequisites Installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server Expres

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• Verify that the Windows® account that you use to install the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server software is assigned the local
administrator permission on the computer that you perform the installation process on.
• Verify that the Windows account that you want to use to install the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software is not a member
of the Domain Admins group in Microsoft® Active Directory®.
• In a Microsoft® Exchange 2003 environment, to start the MAPI subsystem, open the Microsoft Exchange System Manager.
• Retrieve the following information:
• BlackBerry® Client Access License key
• SRP host (in BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0 and later, the format of the SRP host is different from earlier
versions)
• SRP identifier
• SRP key
• computer name and port number of the proxy server (if applicable)
• Add the blackberry.net domain to the permitted lists in the antivirus and anti-spam applications that the messaging server
or gateway uses.
• Verify that the computer has access to http://www.blackberry.com (optional).
• If your organization uses a proxy server for Internet access, obtain the credentials for the proxy server.
• Verify that you installed the appropriate languages and text services on the computer that you use to install the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server.
• If you want to install Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Express Edition SP3 on a computer that does not host any BlackBerry
Enterprise Server components, you can navigate to the Tools folder in the BlackBerry Enterprise Server installation files and
run Sqlexpr.exe.
• If you are installing the BlackBerry Administration Service, verify that the computers that host the BlackBerry Administration
Service and the BlackBerry Configuration Database are not separated by a WAN bridge.
• If you are performing the installation on a computer that has more than one NIC, verify that the production NIC is first in
the bind order in Windows network settings.