Key features for all device types

When you activate a device, you associate the device with your organization's environment so that users can access work data on their devices. You can activate a device with just an email address and activation password.

You can allow users to activate devices themselves or you can activate devices for users and then distribute the devices. All device types can be activated over the wireless network.

You can view all devices in one place and access all management tasks in a single, web-based UI. You can manage multiple devices for each user account and view the device inventory for your organization. You can perform the following actions if the actions are supported by the device:

Lock the device, change the device or work space password, or delete information from the device
Connect the device securely to your organization's mail environment, using
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
for email and calendar support
Control how the device can connect to your organization's network, including
Wi-Fi
and VPN settings
Configure single sign-on for the device so that it authenticates automatically with domains and web services in your organization's network
Control the capabilities of the device, such as setting rules for password strength and disabling functions like the camera
Manage app availability on the device, including specifying app versions and whether the apps are required or optional
Search app stores directly for apps to assign to devices
Install certificates on the device and optionally configure SCEP to permit automatic certificate enrollment
Extend email security using S/MIME or PGP

Groups simplify the management of users, apps, and devices. You can use groups to apply the same configuration settings to similar user accounts or similar devices. You can assign different groups of apps to different groups of users, and a user can be a member of several groups.

You can use gatekeeping in

BlackBerry UEM

to ensure that only devices managed by

BlackBerry UEM

can access work email and other information on the device and meet your organization's security policy.

You can use an enterprise connectivity profile to control how apps on devices connect to your organization’s resources. When you enable enterprise connectivity, you avoid opening multiple ports in your organization's firewall to the Internet for device management and third-party applications such as the mail server, certification authority, and other web servers or content servers. Enterprise connectivity sends all traffic through the

BlackBerry Infrastructure

to

BlackBerry UEM

on port 3101.

On all managed devices, work apps are apps that your organization makes available for its users. Note that UEM does not support app management for macOS. For more information about macOS MDM controls activation, see the Activating devices information.

You can search the app stores directly for apps to assign to devices. You can specify whether apps are required on devices, and you can view whether a work app is installed on a device. Work apps can also be proprietary apps that were developed by your organization or by third-party developers for your organization's use.

You can use a compliance profile to help enforce your organization's requirements for devices, such as not permitting access to work data for devices that are jailbroken, rooted, or have an integrity alert, or requiring that certain apps be installed on devices. You can send a notification to users to ask them to meet your organization's requirements, or you can limit users' access to your organization's resources and applications, delete work data, or delete all data on the device.

You can send an email to multiple users directly from the management console. The users must have an email address associated with their account.

You can import a .csv file into

BlackBerry UEM

to create or import many user accounts at once. Depending on your requirements, you can also specify group membership and activation settings for the user accounts in the .csv file.

The reporting dashboard displays an overview of your

BlackBerry UEM

environment. For example, you can view the number of devices in your organization sorted by service provider. You can view details about users and devices, export the information to a .csv file, and access user accounts from the dashboard.

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data centers are located around the world and are designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery.

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data centers provide secure physical access to buildings, monitoring, and hardware redundancies to help protect your organization’s data from natural disasters.

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data centers have disaster recovery plans for service outages. The plans are designed to have minimal impact on device users and ensure business continuity. Data and apps are backed up in near real time to avoid data loss.

You can send certificates to devices using certificate profiles. These profiles help to restrict access to

Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

,

Wi-Fi

connections, or VPN connections to devices that use certificate-based authentication.

You can manage licenses and view detailed information for each license type, such as usage and expiration. The license types that your organization uses determine the devices and features that you can manage. You must activate licenses before you can activate devices. Free trials are available so that you can try out the service.