Administration Guide | Compatibility of authentication methods with previous versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server User Administration Tool |
Compatibility of authentication methods with previous versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server User Administration Tool
If your organization uses applications that work with previous versions of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server User Administration Tool, in many cases, these applications also work with version 5.0 of the tool.
Supported authentication models
In BlackBerry® Enterprise Server version 5.0, the models for authentication (login) and authorization (roles or capabilities) for administration are different from the models that were used in previous versions.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0 supports the following authentication models:
•BlackBerry Administration Service authentication (default)
•mailbox authentication (IBM® Lotus® Domino® environment only)
•Microsoft® Active Directory® authentication
BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0 does not support Windows® authentication or Microsoft® SQL Server® authentication.
You must create one of the following administrators with sufficient credentials to authenticate with the BlackBerry Administration Service:
•administrator in the BlackBerry Administration Service
•mailbox administrator (IBM Lotus Domino environment only)
•administrator in Microsoft Active Directory
Roles or capabilities that are based on database user accounts are not supported in BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0.
For more information about how to create a BlackBerry Administration Service administrator, visit www.blackberry.com/go/ serverdocs to read the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Administration Guide.
Authentication credentials
In the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server User Administration Tool version 5.0, you can use the following parameters interchangeably:
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server User Administration Tool uses the values associated with these options for the authentication and authorization models that are supported in the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server version 5.0. The tool does not does not support Microsoft® SQL Server® authentication or roles or capabilities that are defined on the Microsoft SQL Server database engine.
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