We have a number of clients still using BES Professional and they want to upgrade to Domino 8.5. BlackBerry Technical Support Services have the following response:

"Thank you for contacting BlackBerry Customer Support. We are pleased to assist you.

The highest version of Lotus Domino supported with BlackBerry Professional Software version 4.1.4B is 8.0.1. There are currently no plans to provide additional support for Domino 8.5 for use with BlackBerry Professional Software. The highest version of Domino currently supported is 8.5.0, when used in conjunction with BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0"

So, you either need to upgrade or remain as is. Some considerations for an upgrade:

• BES Professional was aimed at the small business market and was approved to sit on a production mail server
• BES requires a dedicated server so this will cause a few issue with the migration as the Domino server name may change
• There are some issues with a migration and upgrade so you may consider setting using a new BES management database and then using the transporter tools to manage user moves
• Check your hardware specification against BES 5.0 requirements
• Plan your upgrade/migration properly - best spend more time on the planning than the execution - will save lots of time in the long run and minimise the issue you may have

Comments (0) Jaime Alcorn November 30th, 2009 14:45:00