Install Blackberry Enterprise Server on SBS 2011

  1. Creat new user – BESADMIN
  2. Make BESAdmin a member of Administrators Group
  3. Assign the BesAdmin user “log on as a service” rights in the Default Domain Controller Policy through Group Polic
  4. Run the following in Exchange Management Shell
  • Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission -User “BesAdmin” –AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin
  • Add -RoleGroupMember “View-Only Organization Management” -Member “BesAdmin”
  • Add-ADPermission -InheritedObjectType User -InheritanceType Descendents –ExtendedRights Send-As -User “BesAdmin” -Identity “OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=COMPANY,DC=local”
  • Get-ThrottlingPolicy | Where-Object {$_.IsDefault -eq “True”}|Set-ThrottlingPolicy -RCAMaxConcurrency $null
  1. Set Send/Receive As Security for Users
  • In Activate Directory Users and Computer, view Advanced Properties.
  • View properties of the SBS Users OU.
  • Select Security
  • Add BESAdmin
  • Click Advanced
  • Highlight BESAdmin.
  • Click Edit
  • Select Descendant User Objects in the drop down
  • Check the boxes for SendAs and ReceiveAs
  • Click OK 3 times



  1. Install the Exchange MAPI CDO 1.2.1 package
  1. IPv4 Host File entry for the server (e.g. 192.168.16.2 SBSSERVER01).

Now perform a default installation of the BESExpress Software.

  • After BESExpress is installed, enable the Hard Deletes Setting:
  • Log into the BlackBerry Administration Service.
  • In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view > Email.
  • Click the instance that you want to change.
  • Click Edit instance.
  • On the Messaging tab, in the Messaging options section, in the Hard deletes reconciliation drop-down list, click True.
  • Click Save all.
  • On the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Dispatcher, restart BlackBerry Dispatcher service.
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