Administration Guide

Using an IT policy to manage BlackBerry Enterprise Solution security

If you install BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2 or later, this is the default method for resolving IT policy conflicts. If you upgrade to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP2 or later from a previous version of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the default method for resolving IT policy conflicts is to assign one IT policy to each user account according to the rankings of the IT policies that you specify in the BlackBerry Administration Service.

Reconciliation rules for conflicting IT policies when you apply multiple IT policies to a user account

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server can apply multiple IT policies to a user account if the user account is a member of multiple groups that have different IT policies. Since you can assign IT policies to user accounts, groups, or the BlackBerry Domain, the BlackBerry Administration Service uses predefined rules to apply an IT policy to a user account.

The BlackBerry Administration Service might have to reconcile conflicting IT policies if you perform any of the following actions:

add an IT policy to or remove an IT policy from a user account or group

change an IT policy

change the ranking of IT policies

delete an IT policy

Scenario

Rule

 

 

You add a new user account to a

The Default IT policy (applied at the BlackBerry Domain level) is assigned to the

BlackBerry Enterprise Server. You do

user account.

not assign an IT policy directly to the

 

user account and you do not add the

 

user account to a group.

 

 

 

You assign an IT policy to a user

The IT policy that you assign to a user account takes precedence over the IT

account and different IT policies to the

policies that you assign to the groups that the user belongs to. An IT policy that

groups that the user account belongs

you assign to a group takes precedence over the Default IT policy (applied at the

to.

BlackBerry Domain level).

 

 

A user account belongs to multiple

If you assign multiple IT policies to the groups that the user account belongs to,

groups. You assign multiple IT policies

the BlackBerry Enterprise Server resolves the IT policy rule settings in the

to the groups but you do not assign an

multiple IT policies and assigns a combined IT policy that has a unique ID to the

IT policy to the user account.

user account. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server resolves conflicting settings for

 

IT policy rules by applying the rule setting from the IT policy that you ranked the

 

highest in the BlackBerry Administration Service.

 

For example, you configure the Disable Photo Camera IT policy rule to Yes in IT

 

policy A and to No in IT policy B. If you rank IT policy A higher than IT policy B,

 

the Yes setting is applied for this rule.

 

 

A user account belongs to two groups.

When the BlackBerry Enterprise Server resolves conflicting rule settings, any

You assign the first group IT policy A,

rule settings that have been explicitly configured to a value take precedence

which has the Allow Browser IT policy

over IT policy rule settings that are blank (these rules revert to the default value).

rule as blank (which means that it uses

 

 

 

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