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Overview
The BlackBerry® Administration API is an add-on component for the BlackBerry Administration Service that provides web services to allow developers to create applications to manage an organization’s BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Components. BlackBerry Administration API enables secure programmatic execution of common administrative tasks.
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Main Features
The BlackBerry® Administration API provides 4 sets of web services correlating with the internal architecture of BlackBerry Administration Service.
- Core web services — User admin services
- Dispatcher web services — Device activation
- Email server web service — Mail and mail store information
- Utility web service — Provides authentication and encoding utilities
Security
- Traffic between the BlackBerry Administration API web services and the client applications is sent over HTTPS
- Reuses the SSL certificate provided by the BlackBerry Administration Service to provide a secure connection
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Benefits
The BlackBerry® Administration API allows developers to manage:
- Users and groups:
- Add, move, find and delete users
- Change user settings
- Group administration
- Software configuration assignment
- BlackBerry smartphones:
- Send IT commands, resend service books
- Remote wipe device
- Set Enterprise Activation (EA) password
- Email and folder redirection
- IT policy assignments
