User guide

Preventing a user from pasting work data into a

personal application

To help prevent a BlackBerry device user from pasting work data into a personal application, you can set the Enable

Separation of Work Content IT policy rule to Yes so that the following guidelines apply to the user:

• a user can cut, copy, and paste work data from a work application to another work application

• a user cannot cut, copy, and paste work data from a work application to a personal application

• a user can cut, copy, and paste personal data from a personal application to a work application or another personal

application

If a user tries to paste work data to a personal application, the BlackBerry device displays a warning message.

By default, the Enable Separation of Work Content IT policy rule is set to No. The device does not distinguish between work

data and personal data.

If you set the Enable Separation of Work Content IT policy rule to Yes, a user can select a work email account in the Send

Using field of a draft email message, paste work data into the body of the email message, and then change the selected

work email account in the Send Using field to a personal email account before the user sends the email message. If you

would like to prevent the user from changing the work email account to a personal email account, you should also set the

Require Work Resources For Conducting Work Activities IT policy rule to Yes. By default, the Require Work Resources For

Conducting Work Activities IT policy rule is set to No.

Preventing a user from forwarding work data using

personal channels

To help prevent a BlackBerry device user from forwarding work data using personal channels, you can set the Disable

Forwarding of Work Content Using Personal Channels IT policy rule to Yes. Personal channels include the BlackBerry

Internet Service, SMS text messages, MMS messages, PIN messages, and BlackBerry Messenger. When you set the

Disable Forwarding of Work Content Using Personal Channels IT policy rule to Yes, the device permits the user to follow

these guidelines:

• a user can forward work email messages, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, or memos using a work email account

• a user cannot forward work email messages, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, or memos using personal channels

If the user tries to forward work email messages, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, or memos using personal channels, the

device is designed to display a warning message and does not permit the user to complete the task.

By default, the Disable Forwarding of Work Content Using Personal Channels IT policy rule is set to No. The device does not

distinguish between work data and personal data when users forward data.

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