Blackberry blackberry enterprise server for microsoft exchange BlackBerry Administration Service

Feature and Technical Overview BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and features

BlackBerry Enterprise Server
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components and features

BlackBerry Administration Service

The BlackBerry Administration Service is a web application you use to manage user accounts; assign user groups, administrative roles, and software configurations and apply IT policies to user accounts; and manage servers and component instances in a BlackBerry Domain. You can open the BlackBerry Administration Service in a browser on any computer that can access the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Administration Service. You can share administrative duties with multiple administrators who can access the BlackBerry Administration Service simultaneously using unique user names and passwords. When Microsoft ActiveX controls are turned on in your browser, you can connect BlackBerry devices to your computers and manage the BlackBerry devices while you are logged in to the BlackBerry Administration Service.

Feature	Description
high availability of BlackBerry	You can install standby instances of BlackBerry Enterprise Server components
Enterprise Server components	and configure a manual or automatic failover to a standby instance.
ability to assign users to multiple	Groups permit you to share administrative roles, IT policies, and other
groups	configuration settings among similar user accounts so that properties can be set
	once instead of for every user. You can assign a user account to more than one
	group so that the user inherits the properties of every group that the user
	belongs to. You can also assign groups to other groups to share the properties of
	the parent group with all of the user accounts in the child groups.
custom server and component names	To help you identify servers and component instances, you can define a friendly
using friendly names	name for each BlackBerry Enterprise Server and component instance that
	displays in the BlackBerry Administration Service. Each regional language that
	the BlackBerry Administration Service supports can have unique friendly
	names.
custom administrative roles	Each action that you perform in the BlackBerry Administration Service is
	associated with a privilege. You can specify the actions that administrators can
	perform by changing the privilege that you assign to administrative roles.
BlackBerry Administration Service	Administrators that log in to the BlackBerry Administration Service must provide
authentication or external	their user names and passwords. A user name and a password is a unique
authentication	combination that is stored securely in the BlackBerry Configuration Database

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