Installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express on a Small Business Server 2003 Premium (SBS 2003) is not as easy as it looks. The documentation from BlackBerry is not complete and difficult to understand. I have decided to write documentation with all screenshots for this installation. My customer has an excisting SBS 2003 Premium SP1 (not R2) so we will install a new SQL 2000 named instance and create a BES service account that will run the BES software.

 

This document assumes that you have downloaded the Black Berry Enterprise Express software from the BlackBerry website. Before we can install the BESExpress software there are several things we need to do on the SBS 2003 Server. Most import step is that we create a BES service account that will run the BlackBerry Enterprise server.

This document provides instructions for connecting a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4 to an SBS 2003 server. This document was prepared using Mac OS X 10.4.10, but should apply to any later updates to 10.4. The server used to develop these screen shots has an internal domain with a .lan suffix. These steps should work with any internal domain suffix, including .local.  This document makes several assumptions:

The SSL works out of the box. But if you're like me, you want to change that, and use an ssl that fits your network. Let's go!

Since part 1 we have a working IM Solution. So whenever a user want to use the chatservice they have to register or ask the admin to active the service for them.  You would do 2 steps when adding a user: one via the SBS Management Console and the second step would be adding the user in the Wildfire server and adding to a group for the roster.Let’s automate this! The benefits are that you have 1 step less and the groupmanagement is much easier.