Configuring Feature Lock Policy

• Devices > Policy

You can set the availability of components in the Enable/Disable Device Components screen.

To configure the availability of components on Windows, Symbian, iOS or Android mobile devices for a particular group:

1. In the Device Management screen, select a group from the device tree and click Policy. The Policy pop-up window displays.

2. Click Feature Lock Policy on the left menu.

3. Configure the policies as required. Click the status icon to toggle the availability.

4. Tip: Click Enable All or Disable All to change all the policies at once.

• • Camera

  • • Video conference

  • Bluetooth & Bluetooth Discover: disabling this feature also disables ActiveSync via Bluetooth and external GPS connections.

• • Memory cards

  • Screen capture

  • Applications installation

  • Sync while roaming

  • Voice dialing

  • In Application purchase

  • Multiplayer gaming

  • Add Game Center friends

  • Force encrypted backups

  • Explicit music & podcast

  • Siri

  • Cloud Backup

  • Cloud Document Sync

  • Photo Stream

  • Diagnostic Data

  • Accept Untrusted TLS

  • Force iTunes Store Password

  • YouTube

  • iTunes

  • Safari

• • • AutoFill

    • JavaScript

    • Popups

    • Force fraud warning

    • Accept cookies

  • Infrared: disabling this feature on a mobile device blocks the incoming beam service (cannot receive all incoming beams).

  • USB storage

  • WLAN/WIFI

  • Serial: disabling this feature also disables ActiveSync via USB using a pseudo serial connection and external GPS connections. This could also disable certain infrared and Bluetooth services.

  • Speaker/speakerphone/microphone

• • Microsoft ActiveSync

• • MMS/SMS: disabling this feature blocks all incoming and outgoing messages; including messages sent by Mobile Security.

• • GPS: disabling this feature only blocks the internal GPS feature (applicable only if the mobile device has an in-built GPS component) and external GPS connections based on GPSID (GPS Intermediate Driver). External GPS connections using the serial port are not affected.

• WARNING! Use caution while disabling WLAN/Wi-Fi and/or Microsoft ActiveSync. The device will not be able to communicate with the server if both these options are unavailable.

4. For Android mobile devices, if you want to limit the availability of components within specific access point(s), select Enable/Disable these features only when the mobile device is in the range of the following access point(s) underAccess Point(s). and type the name of the access point in the Access Point Name field. For Windows Mobile devices, skip this step.

5. Do one of the following:

• For the root group, select Apply changes to all groups and send SMS notification messages to all mobile devices after clicking 'Save'.. This action copies policies to all sub-groups.

• For the sub-group, select Send SMS notification messages to mobile devices after clicking 'Save'.. This action sends an SMS notification message to Mobile Device Agents about the configuration changes.

To configure the availability of components on BlackBerry mobile devices for a particular group:

1. In the Device Management screen, select a group from the device tree and click Policy. The Policy pop-up window displays.

2. ClickFeature Lock Policy on the left menu.

3. Click the Click here to go to the BES policy configuration page to go the configuration page on BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and configure the settings as per your requirements.