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Protecting the data that the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
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Where the BlackBerry Enterprise Server stores messages and user data in
the messaging environment
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server stores the messages and user data for a BlackBerry device in the messaging environment so
that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server can maintain a connection between a user’s email account and the BlackBerry device. To
avoid compromising the user data that is stored in the messaging environment, you must protect the storage location in the
messaging environment.
Messaging environment Storage location
IBM® Lotus® Domino® The following Lotus Domino databases store data for the BlackBerry Enterprise
Server:
• The BlackBerry state database stores an entry that opens a connection
between each original email message in a user’s IBM® Lotus Notes® Inbox
and the same email message on the user’s BlackBerry device. Each user
account has a uniquely named BlackBerry state database.
• The BlackBerry profiles database stores configuration information for each
user account, including the identification information for the BlackBerry device
and the device transport key. The BlackBerry profiles database stores a link to
a BlackBerry state database and stores other information that the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server uses to manage how email messages are sent to and from
the BlackBerry device.
Microsoft® Exchange The BlackBerry Enterprise Server stores user data in hidden folders in the Microsoft
Exchange mailbox for the user.
Novell® GroupWise® The BlackBerry Enterprise Server stores user data in the POA where the user account
is located.
Data that the BlackBerry Configuration Database stores
The BlackBerry® Configuration Database stores the following information:
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