What's new in BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express 5.0 SP3

Feature

Description

Support for Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Standard

The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express 5.0 SP3 supports Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard.

BlackBerry® Device Software updates

The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express includes the following enhancements to the software update process:
  • administrators can make software updates optional for BlackBerry device users
  • users have the option to rollback an optional software update

Enhancements to media file downloads

The default settings for media file downloads changed to allow users to download larger amounts of content using the BlackBerry® Browser or an HTTP connection using the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service.

Enhancements to the BlackBerry Administration Service

The BlackBerry Administration Service includes the following enhancements:
  • ability for you to delete only work data from BlackBerry devices
  • two new permissions that allow you to delete data from devices: "Delete all device data and remove device" and "Delete only the organization data and remove device permissions" (the "Edit a device" permission no longer permits you to delete all device data)
  • option for you to delete or disable a user account from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express after you delete only work data or all data from devices
  • option for the BlackBerry Administration Service to automatically select and authenticate with proxy servers
  • improved search results including additional user information and the option to sort and move columns for a customized display
  • option to export the data from the user search results into a .csv file

Enhancements to messaging

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express includes the following enhancements to messaging:

  • If a meeting participant proposes a new time for a meeting using IBM® Lotus Notes®, the email message that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express sends to the meeting organizer's device includes the proposed new time.
  • When a meeting organizer receives a meeting confirmation, or an email message with a request for information, the email message includes any comments that the meeting participant added.

Support for assigning additional configurations to groups

You can assign VPN profiles and Wi-Fi® profiles to groups using the same method that you use to assign IT policies, software configurations, and roles to groups.

Enhancement to logging

By default, the logging level for deployment jobs is increased to debug to help you more easily identify, diagnose, and solve issues with incomplete jobs.

JDBC driver upgrade

The JDBC driver that BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express components use to connect to the BlackBerry Configuration Database is upgraded to version 2.0 for the BlackBerry Administration Service, and to version 3.0 for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service.

New IT policy rules

For information about new IT policy groups and IT policy rules, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Policy Reference Guide.

New application control policy rule

A new application control policy rule named "Is access to the corporate data API allowed" specifies whether a third-party application or an add-on application developed by Research In Motion® can access work data on a device.

New traits

The BlackBerry Enterprise Trait Tool includes the following new traits:

  • PolicyEnterpriseWipeCommandOrderTraitType
  • BASIsProxyWPADOptionEnabled
  • BASNumberOfAdditionalWiredApplicationsToIncludeInACP
  • BASProxyBasicAuthUID
  • BASProxyBasicAuthPassword
  • EWSDomain
  • EWSPassword
  • EWSServiceAccount
  • MaxDomainSlowSyncsPerMin
  • MaxSyncServerSlowSyncsPerMin
  • MaxSyncServerSlowSyncsInProcess
  • MaxPollCycleCountForHungSlowSync
  • MaxPollCycleCountForNoResponseToSlowSync
  • NumberOfUserTargetTypeForSlowSyncInParallel
  • SlowSyncPollCycleInterval

For more information about new traits, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Administration Guide.

Changes to the BlackBerry Configuration Database schema

The changes to the BlackBerry Configuration Database schema for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express 5.0 SP3 are summarized in the UpgradeV99990101.sql file in the installation folder.

Support for Microsoft® Office 2010 file attachments

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is designed to support Microsoft Office 2010 file attachments in messages.

Support for Microsoft® Hyper-V® Server 2008 R2

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is designed to support the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 virtualization platform.

End of support for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express no longer supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MSDE.

If the installer detects Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE, the setup application displays a warning message and you cannot continue to install or upgrade the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express until you upgrade the database server.


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