You can use one or more IT policies to control the behavior of BlackBerry® devices and the BlackBerry® Desktop Software in your organization. The Default IT policy includes all standard IT policy rules on the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. After new users in a BlackBerry Domain activate their BlackBerry devices on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server automatically pushes the Default IT policy to their BlackBerry devices.

The default settings for IT policy rules reflect the default behavior of BlackBerry devices or the BlackBerry Desktop Software. You can use IT policy rules to change the behavior of supported BlackBerry device types. For more information, see the Policy Reference Guide.

You can customize and control the behavior of BlackBerry devices and the BlackBerry Desktop Software by performing the following actions:

• changing an IT policy rule to a True or False value
• typing a string, which simultaneously turns on an IT policy rule and provides the parameters for its use
• selecting a predefined, permitted value to assign to an IT policy rule

• Create an IT policy
  
• Assign an IT policy to a group of users
  
• Assign an IT policy to a user account
  
• Enforcing IT policy changes over the wireless network
  
• Deactivating BlackBerry devices without applied IT policies
  
• Changing the default behavior of BlackBerry devices and the BlackBerry Desktop Software
  
• Returning to the default behavior of BlackBerry devices and the BlackBerry Desktop Software
  
• Creating new IT policy rules to control third-party applications