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BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
Administration enhancements
The Microsoft Exchange BES version 4.1 provides many enhancements to
make supporting and managing BES easier, and the ability to easily create
BlackBerry client applications that integrate with Web Services.
* Feature updates from BES 4.1 to 4.1.2
- Common Administration Console for All Platforms
BlackBerry Manager
- Common interface for managing BlackBerry.
- Leverage BlackBerry manager Admin console from Domino & GroupWise for Exchange as well
- Role Based Administration
- Role-Based Administration will allow IT Administrators to assign specific roles to a set of administrators. Those administrators will have access to only applicable functions when they log in to the BlackBerry Manager.
- Group Administration
- Ability to create groups of users to ease administrative tasks
- Ability to assign properties and tasks to groups such as: IT Policies, Email Filters, MDS Access Control, Redirection, PIM Sync, Send bulletins to groups, Auto signature etc.
- IT Administrators will have the ability to specify which applications are required, allowed and prohibited; required applications are pushed to the device and installed wirelessly.
- Seamless user moves between BlackBerry Enterprise Servers.
- Compatibility for Office Communicator – Office Communicator will be replacing the Windows Messenger IM client. This is a tool used primarily for corporate internal communication *
- Compatibility for Sametime v7.5 – SameTime is IBM's Instant Messaging client for internal corporate communication. BES 4.1.2 will support the upgraded version of SameTime.*
- Large Attachment Support –An organization can control the size of attachments that can be uploaded to the BlackBerry device. BES administrators can increase or decrease this size limit *
- IT Policy “Cloning” – IT policy values/parameters do not have to be re-generated; rather, they can be cloned for faster set-up of a similar IT Policy.
- Novell's GroupWise (GW) 7.0 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Application Programming Interface (API) – The Novell GroupWise client was limited in terms of functionality to only support 500 users. With support for the new 7.0 version using SOAP, this extends the number of supported clients to 2000 instead of 500.
- Database replication to deploy BES database for a disaster recovery scenario – Database replication means data is redundantly stored to a secondary database. This way, the BES Administrator can configure the BES to seamlessly switch over to the secondary database immediately in the event that the first database fails*.
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User Enhancements
- Enhanced attachment viewing
- Image support (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF) with image manipulation controls (Pan, Zoom and Rotate).
- Ability to view footnotes and tracked changes.
- Users can view more web sites from the device than ever before with support for JavaScript and display animated GIFs, as well as partial support for cascading style sheets.
- Phone enhancements such as A to Z speed dialing and improved call handling options when device is locked
- Calendar and task enhancements
- Accept appointments tentatively, with or without comments, and notifies user of meeting conflicts.
- Users can create recurring tasks and set a reminder date and time.
- Global Search
- Users can simultaneously search the Address Book, Calendar, MemoPad, Tasks and Messages.
- On-device help
- Application specific support information is now available on the device.
- Personal Contact pictures – When looking up a contact in the Global Address List (GAL) on the BlackBerry device, that contact's picture can be shown, along with their contact information (note: requires BlackBerry handheld code 4.2).*
- WAV file support – WAV files can be played on the BlackBerry device (must be used in conjunction with Handheld code 4.2)*
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Developer Enhancements
- Easy Management of user Groups.
- More secure administrator access.
- Provides ability to lower costs by segregating duties.
- Lower the total cost of ownership of the BlackBerry solution.
- PIN to PIN and SMS message audit logs.
(i) Instant Messaging
Enterprise Instant Messaging solutions will be supported for the following messaging and collaboration platforms:
- IBM Lotus Sametime
- Novell GroupWise Messenger
- Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS)
(ii) Mobile Data System
- Allows enterprises to easily develop and push internal applications.
System components:
- BlackBerry MDS Studio
- A powerful visual tool for assembling BlackBerry MDS applications.
- Drag and drop component based methodology.
- Easily create form based applications that increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Extend web based applications to BlackBerry devices such as company intranets.
- Application-level Basic and NTLM user authentication*
- BlackBerry MDS Runtime
- Manages the on-device application lifecycle, include deployment, execution and upgrade.
- BlackBerry MDS Services
- Handles interaction between BlackBerry MDS Applications and back-end enterprise applications and systems.
- Centrally manages BlackBerry MDS Applications and devices.
- English, French, Italian, German and Spanish localization support *
- SSL certificate authentication between MDS Services and backendEnhanced distributed MDS Connection Services deployment so you can have multiple BES associated to just one MDS Connection Service. This way, all users have access to the SAME MDS services, regardless of what BES they are associated with.*
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