Change how IT policies are sent to BlackBerry devices

You can change the settings that the BlackBerry Administration Service uses to send all IT policy settings and updates to BlackBerry devices. If you change the default settings for IT policy distribution, your organization's environment might experience a performance impact.
  1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the Devices menu, expand Deployment jobs.
  2. Click Specify IT policy distribution settings.
  3. Click Edit distribution settings.
  4. Perform any of the following tasks:

    Task

    Steps

    Change the default recurrence day for sending IT policy updates.
    1. Click the Edit icon for the default recurrence day.
    2. In the Scheduled deployment day(s) drop-down list, click the appropriate recurrence option. If necessary, select the recurrence days.
    3. In the Start time drop-down list, click the appropriate option. If necessary, set the start time and end time.
    4. Click the Update icon.

    By default, the recurrence day is Every day and the start time is All day.

    Add a new recurrence day for sending IT policy updates.

    If you want to add more than one recurrence day for sending IT policy updates, the schedules for the separate recurrence days cannot overlap.

    1. In the Scheduled deployment day(s) drop-down list, click the appropriate recurrence option. If necessary, select the recurrence days.
    2. In the Start time drop-down list, click the appropriate option. If necessary, set the start time and end time.
    3. Click the Add icon.
  5. On the System throttling tab, in the Maximum number of simultaneous tasks per BlackBerry Administration Service instance field, type the maximum number of tasks that you want the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to process at the same time. The default value is 1000.
  6. On the Job throttling tab, to turn on throttling for all IT policy tasks in jobs, select Enabled to reduce load on system.
  7. If necessary, in the Default throttling for all IT policy tasks in each job in a time window section, in the Maximum number of simultaneous tasks per BlackBerry Administration Service instance field, type the maximum number of IT policy tasks that you want the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to process at the same time. The default value is 25.
  8. If necessary, in the Total number of tasks per time window per BlackBerry Administration Service instance field, type the total number of IT policy tasks that you want the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to process during each processing interval. The default value is 150.
  9. Click Save all.
Last updated: 2012-09-17
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