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Creating and configuring VPN profiles

Wi-Fi® enabled BlackBerry® devices have built-in VPN clients that supports several types of VPN concentrators.

To create a VPN profile, you configure the VPN configuration settings (for example, the IP address of the VPN concentrator, user names and passwords, and cryptographic methods that the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server uses) on a BlackBerry device or using a VPN profile or IT policy. If a user account has a VPN profile, you can associate the VPN profile with the Wi-Fi profile for the user account.

Depending on your organization's security policy, you can save a user name and password to a BlackBerry device to prevent the BlackBerry device from prompting the user for the login information the first time (or each time) the BlackBerry device connects to the enterprise Wi-Fi network.

Create a VPN profile

  1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, expand Policy > WLAN configuration.
  2. Click Create VPN set.
  3. In the Name field, type a name for the VPN profile.
  4. Click Save.
After you finish: Configure the VPN profile.

Create a VPN profile based on an existing VPN profile

  1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, expand Policy > WLAN configuration.
  2. Click Manage VPN sets.
  3. Click the name of the VPN profile that you want to copy.
  4. Click Copy configuration set.
  5. Type a name for the new VPN profile.
  6. Click Save.
After you finish: Configure the VPN profile.

Configure a VPN profile

  1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, expand Policy > WLAN configuration.
  2. Click Manage VPN sets.
  3. Click the name of the VPN profile.
  4. Click Edit configuration set.
  5. On the VPN set data tab, change the values for the configuration settings.
  6. Click Save all.
After you finish:
  • For information about the VPN configuration settings, see the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Policy Reference Guide.
  • To update the BlackBerry device information immediately, resend the IT policy to the BlackBerry device.

Assign a VPN profile to a user account

You can assign more than one VPN profile to a user account.
  1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, expand User.
  2. Click Manage users.
  3. Search for a user account.
  4. Click the display name for the user account.
  5. Click Edit user.
  6. On the VPN configurations tab, in the VPN set name section, in the drop-down list, click the appropriate VPN profile.
  7. If required, in the VPN user specific settings section, specify the login information that you want to associate with the VPN profile.
  8. Click the Add icon.
  9. Click Save all.

Associate a VPN profile with a Wi-Fi profile

To permit a BlackBerry® device to connect to a Wi-Fi® network using a VPN session, you must associate a VPN profile with a Wi-Fi profile that you assigned to the user account.

  1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, expand Policy > WLAN configuration.
  2. Click Manage VPN sets.
  3. Click the name of the Wi-Fi profile.
  4. Click Edit configuration set.
  5. On the WLAN set data tab, in the WLAN associations section, in the Associated VPN Configuration drop-down list, click the VPN profile that you want to associate with the Wi-Fi profile.
  6. Click Save All.
After you finish: To update the BlackBerry device information immediately, resend the IT policy to the BlackBerry device.
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