Before 4SP4 ESM 2003 SP2 was not supported on the BES, now it is.

What Is - BlackBerry Enterprise Server support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Last Updated: 02 March 2006
Article Number: KB-04586
Summary

This article applies to the following:

* BlackBerry Enterprise Server™
* Microsoft® Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2

Description

Research In Motion® currently supports Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 when the service pack is applied on a Microsoft Exchange Server, or on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, for the following BlackBerry Enterprise Server versions:

* BlackBerry Enterprise Server 3.6 Service Pack 7
* BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0 Service Pack 4

Regards,
Bob

Anyone have experiences with this? We recently upgraded to exchange 2003 SP2 and I am considering between this upgrade and 4.1.

Thanks.

We're running Exchange 2003 SP2 and 4.0 SP4 and all is well. About 1000 Exchange users and 50 handhelds.

I tried an upgrade of 4.0 SP3 to 4.1 on a test server and it was a disaster -- SQL related and not Exchange related, but I'd still wait for 4.1 SP1.

Just FYI, HF1 is available for Exchange 5.5 users and HF2 is available now to fix some issues for all versions.

SWEEEETTTTT.

We recently upgraded ESM 2003 -> SP2...I think its time to get the BES to SP4 HF2.

Thanks Jibi & others!

Installing Service Packs and Hotfixes
 

Hi all,

I'm a bit behind on our Service Packs hotfixes. The latest I have installed is Service Pack 3. There are 4 Hot Fixes to it that I have not installed.

Service Pack 4 is out. I can't tell from the documentation if I can just install Service Pack 4 and its 3 Hotfixes, or if I need to first install the Hotfixes to Service Pack 3. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Install Service Pack 4, it will incorporate all those Hotfixes.

[QUOTE=jibi]reboot the server, even if it prompts or not. QUOTE]

You should always reboot after patches/upgrades to make sure everything comes up again..Since you usually have a maintenance window for upgrades the 5 minutes is worth it. You dont want a service failed to start weeks or months later, you won't be able to tie it to the upgrade. And i have had stuff working without a reboot, then fail after a reboot.

I went through this with RIM support last month with 3.6.7, and have had no issues with sp2 on both the bes and exchange 2003 server running in a mixed mode environment(2003-5.5) and bb users on both servers.

-bradk