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Administration Guide Managing how users access enterprise applications and web content

Restricting the push application content that users can receive

By default, a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service sends push requests from server-side push applications to applications on BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry devices can receive application data and application updates without users requesting the content.

You can configure your organization's environment so that only specific server-side push applications can send push requests to BlackBerry devices. You can turn on push authentication to prevent a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service from sending push requests, and create push initiators that permit specific server-side applications to send push requests to BlackBerry devices. To permit specific users to receive push requests on BlackBerry devices, you can create push rules and assign the rules to the users.

For more information about push requests, see the BlackBerry Java Development Environment Development Guide.

Restrict push applications from sending data to BlackBerry devices

You can turn on push authentication to permit only authenticated push applications to send push requests to applications on BlackBerry devices.

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 Access control section, in the Push authentication options, click Yes.

5.Click Save all.

After you finish: To authenticate and permit specific server-side push applications to send push requests to BlackBerry devices, create push initiators.

Create push initiators for push applications

Push initiators specify which server-side push applications are authenticated and permitted to send push requests to applications on BlackBerry devices. For push initiators to work, you must turn on push authentication for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service. You can configure several server-side push applications to use the same push initiator (that is, to

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