Pushing The Blackberry Device Software And The Blackberry Desktop Software To Users' Computers - Blackberry ENTERPRISE SERVER FOR NOVELL GROUPWISE Upgrade Manual

Upgrade Guide
Advantages
• You can monitor the software upgrade process at the
central computer.
• You can use software configurations to help control
the software upgrades.
• You can upgrade multiple BlackBerry devices at the
same time.
• You can upgrade BlackBerry devices for users who do
not have the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager installed
on their computers.
• You can share a single software location among
multiple central computers.
Pushing the BlackBerry Device Software and the BlackBerry Desktop Software to
users' computers
You can use third-party applications to create a single upgrade file that contains the BlackBerry® Desktop Software and the
BlackBerry® Device Software, and send the upgrade file to the computers of your BlackBerry device users. The application
loader tool on the computers upgrades the BlackBerry Device Software on the BlackBerry device.
Advantages
• You can install the BlackBerry Device Software and the
BlackBerry Desktop Software on computers
automatically.
• You can set an IT policy to make users upgrade the
BlackBerry Device Software.
The upgrade file installs the BlackBerry Desktop Software and the BlackBerry Device Software on the computers of your
BlackBerry device users. To upgrade the BlackBerry Device Software on their BlackBerry devices, users can connect their
BlackBerry devices to their computers and start the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager.
This upgrade process applies when you upgrade from BlackBerry Device Software Version 3.5 or earlier.
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Pushing the BlackBerry Device Software and the BlackBerry Desktop Software to users' computers

Disadvantages
• You cannot make users upgrade the BlackBerry Device
Software.
Disadvantages
• You must distribute large upgrade packages over your
organization's LAN.