User guide

Component Description
BlackBerry Attachment Service The BlackBerry Attachment Service is a BlackBerry Enterprise Server
component that converts supported message attachments into a format that the
user can view on a device.
BlackBerry Collaboration Service The BlackBerry Collaboration Service is a BlackBerry Enterprise Server
component that provides a connection between your organization's instant
messaging server and the collaboration client on a device.
BlackBerry Configuration Database The BlackBerry Configuration Database is a relational database that contains
configuration information that BlackBerry Enterprise Server components use.
The BlackBerry Configuration Database stores the following information:
• details about the connection from a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the
wireless network
• contact list
• address mappings between PINs and email addresses for BlackBerry MDS
Connection Service push features
• read-only copies of device transport keys, which encrypt the message keys
that encrypt data that the
BlackBerry Enterprise Server and a device send
between each other
BlackBerry Controller The BlackBerry Controller is a BlackBerry Enterprise Server component that
monitors other BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and restarts them if
they stop responding.
BlackBerry Desktop Software The BlackBerry Desktop Software is an integrated suite of applications that a
user installs on the user's computer. It manages the association between a
device and the email account, synchronizes organizer data, calendar entries,
and inboxes, and permits the user to download applications and BlackBerry
Device Software
updates to a device.
BlackBerry device A device provides the user with access to BlackBerry services such as
messaging and browsing.
BlackBerry Device Software The BlackBerry Device Software consists of applications on a device that permit
the user to send and receive email messages, PIN messages, and text
messages; manage calendar entries; and so on.
BlackBerry Dispatcher The BlackBerry Dispatcher is a BlackBerry Enterprise Server component that
compresses and encrypts all data that a device sends and receives. The
BlackBerry Dispatcher sends the data through the BlackBerry Router, to and
from the wireless network.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server The BlackBerry Enterprise Server consists of various components that process,
route, compress, encrypt, and send data over the wireless network to a device.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server is designed to open a two-way connection that
is highly secure between the user's email account and the device. The
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