Managing instant messaging
The BlackBerry® Collaboration Service is designed to provide a connection between your organization's instant messaging server and the collaboration client on BlackBerry devices. In some instant messaging environments, you can use TLS or HTTPS to encrypt the connection between specific instant messaging components.
The BlackBerry Collaboration Service supports up to 2000 connections for instant messaging sessions on the following instant messaging servers:
- Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2005
- Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007
- Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2
- Microsoft® Lync™ Server 2010
- IBM® Lotus® Sametime®