Specify a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service as a

central push server

You can specify more than one BlackBerry MDS Connection Service in your organization's BlackBerry Domain as a central
push server. By default, if one or two BlackBerry MDS Connection Service instances exist in the BlackBerry Domain, those
instances are central push servers.
1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, in the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution
topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view > MDS Connection Service.
2. Click the instance that you want to change.
3. Click Edit instance.
4. In the General section, in the Is centralized push server drop-down list, click Yes.
5. Click Save all.
After you finish:
Notify the push application developers in your organization's environment that you have specified a new central push
server.
Configuring how BlackBerry devicesauthenticate to content servers
If you configured the content servers in your organization's environment to use an authentication protocol to authenticate
the sources of the data requests that they receive, you can control how BlackBerry devices authenticate to content servers
to receive application data and application updates.

Configure how BlackBerry devices authenticate to

content servers

You can configure whether BlackBerry devices authenticate to content servers directly, or whether the BlackBerry MDS
Connection Service authenticates to content servers on behalf of BlackBerry devices. If you configure BlackBerry devices
to authenticate directly to content servers but you do not configure an authentication method for BlackBerry MDS
Connection Service connections, authenticated BlackBerry devices prompt users to provide login information every 60
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