Feature and Technical OverviewBlackBerry Enterprise Server architecture
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| Agent connects to your organization's messaging server to provide messaging |
| services, calendar management, address lookups, attachment viewing, |
| attachment downloading, and encryption key generation. The BlackBerry |
| Messaging Agent also acts as a gateway so that the BlackBerry Synchronization |
| Service can access organizer data on the messaging server. The BlackBerry |
| Messaging Agent synchronizes configuration data between the BlackBerry |
| Configuration Database and the BlackBerry profiles database. The BlackBerry |
| Messaging Agent synchronizes configuration data between the BlackBerry |
| Configuration Database and user mailboxes. The BlackBerry Messaging Agent |
| synchronizes configuration data between the BlackBerry Configuration |
| Database and the message store databases. |
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BlackBerry Policy Service | The BlackBerry Policy Service performs administration services over the |
| wireless network. It sends IT policies and IT administration commands and |
| provisions service books. IT policies and IT administration commands specify |
| security, settings for synchronizing data over the wireless network, and other |
| configuration settings on devices. The BlackBerry Policy Service also sends |
| service books to devices to configure settings for features and components on |
| devices. |
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BlackBerry Router | The BlackBerry Router connects to the wireless network to send data to and |
| from devices. It also sends data over your organization's network to devices that |
| users connected to computers that host the BlackBerry Device Manager. |
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BlackBerry Synchronization Service | The BlackBerry Synchronization Service synchronizes organizer data between |
| BlackBerry devices and the messaging server over the wireless network. |
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BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager | The BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager is a |
| users to manage their devices. For example, users can activate devices, back up |
| and restore data, select messaging options, synchronize data, and install |
| applications. The BlackBerry Web Desktop Manager includes the BlackBerry |
| Device Manager. |
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organization's application server or | Your organization's application server or content server provides push |
content server | applications and intranet content that the BlackBerry MDS Services use. |
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instant messaging server | The instant messaging server stores instant messaging accounts. |
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messaging server | The messaging server stores email accounts. |
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user's computer that hosts the | The user's computer that hosts the BlackBerry Device Manager permits users to |
BlackBerry Device Manager | connect their devices to their computers using a serial connection or USB |
| connection. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server and devices use the connection |
| to send data between each other. |
| Data traffic from devices bypasses the wireless network when devices are |
| connected to users' computers. The BlackBerry Device Manager connects to |
| the BlackBerry Router, which sends data directly to devices. |
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