Blackberry BES 5.0 features
Berryreview heeft de hand weten te leggen op specificaties van de nieuwe BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0
One of our secret agents just scored the Feature Enhancement Summary for the latest private beta of the upcoming BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) 5.0 codename Argon.
Key product enhancements:
- Unified application management and deployment for Java and MDS Runtime applications
- More robust application deployment and management tools, simplified application control
- Active Directory integration for user management
- Scheduled deployments and updates
- Remote Option Setting
- Capability for administrators to “Brand” a device
- User Self-Provisioning o Simplifying Enterprise Activation even further – user initiated
- Allows more deployment options o Centralized in one server o Dispersed across servers
- New BlackBerry Administration Service
- BlackBerry support for device linked to multiple BES o Primary BES for Policy and Administration o Secondary BES(s) for specific application
- High-Availability: Active / Passive automatic failover design
- Shared SRP key
- Opens up technique for limited downtime upgrades
- Upgrade standby
- Fail over users to it
- Upgrade primary
- Fail users back
- Multi-faceted strategy:
- Fault Tolerance via Controller Service
- Automated and Manual Failover modes between Primary and Standby servers
- Administrator configurable failover thresholds
- Additional features
- SRP Lockout Avoidance
- Service Prioritization
- Prevention of failover looping
- No single point of failure when running High Availability configuration
