Change how a job sends the BlackBerry Device Software to BlackBerry devices

You can change how the BlackBerry Administration Service installs or updates the BlackBerry Device Software in a specific job on BlackBerry devices. You can change the distribution settings for a job for the BlackBerry Device Software only if the job is not running. If you change the default distribution settings for BlackBerry Device Software, 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 a job.
  4. In the search results, click the ID of the appropriate job.
  5. Click Edit job.
  6. On the BlackBerry Device Software Distribution tab, perform any of the following tasks:

    Task

    Steps

    Change the recurrence day for installing, updating, or removing BlackBerry Device Software.
    1. Click the Edit icon for the recurrence day.
    2. In the Scheduled deployment day(s) drop-down list, click the appropriate recurrence option. If necessary, click the number of 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 installing, updating, or removing BlackBerry Device Software.

    To add more than one recurrence day, 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, click the recurrence days.
    2. In the Start time drop-down list, click the appropriate recurrence option. If necessary, change the start time and end time.
    3. Click the Add icon.
  7. To turn on throttling for all BlackBerry Device Software tasks in jobs, in the Default throttling enablement for all BlackBerry Device Software tasks in each job in a time window section, click Enabled to reduce load on system.
  8. If necessary, in the Default throttling for all BlackBerry Device Software 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 BlackBerry Device Software 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 BlackBerry Device Software 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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