Administration Guide

Creating and configuring Wi-Fi profiles and VPN profiles

If you are using a text editor to create the .csv file, use quotation marks (" ") if the value for a field contains a space (for example, "Westlee Barichak").

Add no more than 2000 actions to a file.

Assign a maximum of 32 profiles to BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry Device Software versions that are earlier than 4.5.0.

Assign a maximum of 64 profiles to BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry Device Software version 4.5.0 and later.

Create a .csv file that contains profile information that you want to import

Before you begin: Using the BlackBerry Administration Service, create profiles and specify the configuration settings for the profiles.

1.Using the BlackBerry Administration Service, export user information for the user accounts that you want to update profile information for to a .csv file.

2.In any application that permits you to update .csv files, add the following fields to the .csv file that you exported in step 1:

Attribute Name

Attribute Type

Action

User Name

Password

3.Configure the fields for each user account in the file.

4.Save the changes.

Example: Adding profile information to user accounts

"User Id","Display Name","PIN","Email Address","Logon Name","Attribute Name","Attribute Type","Action","User Name","Password"

"16","Westlee Barichak","","wbarichak@example.com",,"wifi_1","WLAN","ADD","test user","test password"

"17","Jovanka Buac","","jbuac@example.com",,"vpn_1","VPN","ADD" "8","Sherisse Da Silva","2072C4B7","sdasilva@example.com",,"wifi_1","WLAN","ADD","wlan_user","wlan_pa ss"

"8","Sherisse Da Silva","2072C4B7","sdasilva@example.com",,"vpn_1","VPN","ADD"

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