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Working with
Microsoft Active Directory

Active Directory
and
BlackBerry Workspaces

BlackBerry Workspaces
workspace owners and administrators can define groups based on
Active Directory
Security groups.
BlackBerry Workspaces
maintains an association between the
BlackBerry Workspaces
group and the
Active Directory
group.
Workspace owners can share workspaces with
BlackBerry Workspaces
groups, in the same way they share workspaces with
Workspaces
groups. Permissions can be assigned to these groups in the same way they are assigned to
Workspaces
groups.
When an
Active Directory
user attempts to access the
Workspaces
server, to access a workspace for example,
Workspaces
queries the
Active Directory
server for all the
Active Directory
groups the user is a member of, then checks whether any of these (
Active Directory
) groups are associated with
Workspaces
groups that permit the access that the user is attempting. If one is found, access is permitted. The user will see, for example, only those workspaces or folders that can be seen by the
Workspaces
groups associated with
Active Directory
Security groups for which the user is a member.
To improve performance,
BlackBerry Workspaces
caches the query response from
Active Directory
for a particular user for one hour, so subsequent queries will check the cache first. If the information is no longer in the cache, the query will go to the
Active Directory
server.
Metadata about
Active Directory
groups, such as name and description, is updated on the associated
BlackBerry Workspaces
groups once per day.

Active Directory
and sharing with
BlackBerry Workspaces

BlackBerry Workspaces
Exchange users can send emails with secured attachments to
Active Directory
Distribution Groups. They cannot send to
Active Directory
Security groups or to the
Active Directory
Domain Group (of all users). Permissions for recipients of emails to access the secure attachments are those that are explicitly set in the email or the default permissions for sending emails (for the sender).
BlackBerry Workspaces
uses
Active Directory
, in essence, as an address book to obtain the email addresses of all members of the
Active Directory
Distribution Group.