Feature and Technical Overview | BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and features |
BlackBerry device management
You can use the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to control how you implement, maintain, and upgrade BlackBerry devices across your organization.
Controlling third-party applications on BlackBerry devices
Feature | Description |
control the installation and removal of | You can use the BlackBerry Administration Service to install applications on |
BlackBerry devices over the wireless network, or you can permit users to | |
| download and install |
| can remove applications from BlackBerry devices over the wireless network, and |
| you can also prevent users from downloading applications. |
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control the resources that | You can use standard application control policies or create custom application |
applications can access | control policies to specify the resources that |
| on BlackBerry devices (for example, message, phone, and key store). |
| You can create IT policies that specify the types of connections that |
| applications on BlackBerry devices can establish (for example, opening network |
| connections inside the firewall). |
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BlackBerry Policy Service
The BlackBerry Policy Service sends IT policies and IT administration commands to BlackBerry devices and provisions service books over the wireless network. When you activate a BlackBerry device, change an IT policy, or request that a BlackBerry Enterprise Server resend service books, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses the BlackBerry Policy Service to send the updates to the BlackBerry device.
An IT policy consists of rules that define BlackBerry device security, settings for synchronizing data over the wireless network, and other behaviors for the individual groups or user accounts that you define. You can configure IT policies using the BlackBerry Administration Service.
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