[voyager9355]

Hi all,

Looking for some feedback...how long should it take to upgrade my BES from 4.1.3 to 4.1.6 MR7 (Domino)?
It's just an over the top upgrade...so I can't imagine it would take too long. Would appreciate hearing from those of you who've done it already.

I am hoping to be able to do this during business hours...while most of my BB users are NOT using their blackberries.

Thanks much!

[mqazi]

I would recommend a downtime of about 2 hours. It may NOT exhaust all the 2 hours, yet you can use the time left for testing.

Note: Always take a backup of your database.

Cheers

[knottyrope]

Just read all the DOCs and domino requirements.

The BES upgrade usually is fairly painless.
The domino part can be fun if you dont read the manual

[CCK01]

If you are doing it over the weekend, then expect a half day, just in case system failed or crash after the update. Anything is possible for BES. Make sure you can do a quick image after you shut down the BES before upgrade. It is much easier to re-image the server than backup from the backup system, U know.

[voyager9355]

Thanks for your responses! It was fast & easy...no more than 30 minutes - and a VM snapshot before I did anything was nice to have...just in case anything blew up on me ;)

Fun part came later...moving BES to a sparkly new Domino 8.5 server. Still doing a little battle with that one, but it's running!

What's the fun? When I go to add a new user, it timestamps the database entry 5 hours in the future. Go figure. I have RIM working on that one!