Defining software configurations
Software
configurations permit you to perform the following actions to manage applications on BlackBerry® devices for specific user accounts or groups:
- remotely add and remove third-party Java® applications, the collaboration client, and the BlackBerry® MDS Runtime using the application loader tool on BlackBerry devices that are connected to computers that run the BlackBerry® Device Manager
- define application control policies and add them to software configurations to specify the resources that third-party Java applications, the collaboration client, and the BlackBerry MDS Runtime can access on BlackBerry devices from behind the organization's firewall
You must create a separate software configuration for each BlackBerry device series in your organization.
You must either install all of the application files that you want to install on a specific BlackBerry device model on the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server or on a computer with a shared network drive before you can set an application control policy on a BlackBerry device. You set up a software configuration to point to the location of the application files.