Change how a job sends standard application settings to BlackBerry devices

BlackBerry Device Software configurations include standard application settings that you can use to control calendar, email, and contact list settings on BlackBerry devices. You can change how the BlackBerry Administration Service sends settings and updates in jobs to BlackBerry devices. If you change the default distribution settings for the standard application settings in BlackBerry Device Software configurations, 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 Application Settings Distribution tab, perform any of the following tasks:

    Task

    Steps

    Change the recurrence day for sending or updating standard application settings.
    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, select the number of recurrence days.
    3. In the Start time drop-down list, click the appropriate recurrence 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 recurrence day for sending or updating standard application settings.

    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 tasks for standard application settings in the job, in the Default throttling enablement for all BlackBerry Device Software application 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 Application Settings 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 tasks for standard application settings 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 tasks for standard application settings 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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