Pushing The Blackberry Device Software And The Blackberry Desktop Software To Users' Computers; Configure A Network Drive; Save The Blackberry Desktop Software Installation Files To The Network Drive - Blackberry ENTERPRISE SERVER FOR NOVELL GROUPWISE Upgrade Manual

Upgrade Guide
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.

Configure a network drive

1. Share <drive>:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion with read-only permissions.
2. Verify that the computers of BlackBerry® device users in your organization can access the network drive.
3. To decrease bandwidth over your organization's LAN, verify that the network drive is in close proximity to users.

Save the BlackBerry Desktop Software installation files to the network drive

1. Download the BlackBerry® Desktop Software installation file from www.blackberry.com/support/downloads.
2. Save the installation file that you downloaded to the shared network drive.
3. If necessary, extract the installation files from the .exe file to the network drive.
4. On the network drive, open setup.ini.
5. At the bottom of setup.ini, type [INSTALL_OPTIONS].
6. To add the installation settings, use install.txt, which is included with the BlackBerry Desktop Software installation
files.

Pushing the BlackBerry Device Software and the BlackBerry Desktop Software to users' computers

Disadvantages
• You must distribute large upgrade packages over your
organization's LAN.
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