Change how a job sends IT policies to BlackBerry devices

You can change how the BlackBerry Administration Service sends IT policy settings and changes in a specific job to BlackBerry devices. You can change a job's distribution settings for IT policies only if the job is not running. If you changing the IT policy distribution settings for a job, your organization's environment might experience a performance impact.
  1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the Devices menu, expand Deployment jobs.
  2. Click Manage deployment jobs.
  3. Search for the job that you want to change.
  4. In the search results, click the ID of the job that you want to change.
  5. Click Edit job.
  6. On the IT Policy Distribution tab, perform any of the following tasks:

    Task

    Steps

    Change the default recurrence day for sending IT policy changes.
    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, change 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 changes.

    If you want to add more than one recurrence day for sending IT policy changes, 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, change the start time and end time.
    3. Click the Add icon.
  7. To turn on throttling for all IT policy tasks in the job, in the Default throttling enablement for all IT policy tasks in each job in a time window section, select Enabled to reduce load on system.
  8. 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 in the job that you want the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to process at the same time. The default value is 25.
  9. 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 in the job that you want the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to process during each processing interval. The default value is 150.
  10. Click Save all.
Last updated: 2012-09-17
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