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Understanding application control policies
The BlackBerry® Enterprise Server application control policy rules are designed to allow or prevent the installation of specific
third-party applications on the BlackBerry device, and to limit the permissions of third-party applications that are installed
on the BlackBerry device.
After you assign a software configuration to a BlackBerry device, you can set the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to send the
software configuration to the BlackBerry device over the wireless network. The user can use the application loader tool of
the BlackBerry® Desktop Manager to install or upgrade to the BlackBerry® Device Software in the software configuration.
To control or change the behavior of third-party applications on the BlackBerry device, you can set an application control
policy and assign values to the application control policy rules. If a default application control policy does not exist, the user
can change some application control settings on the BlackBerry device. If a default application control policy exists, the user
cannot change the application control settings.
Setting application control policy rules
You can assign application control policy rules to satisfy your organization's security policy requirements and to reflect the
needs of the users who are assigned to that application control policy.
You can set a default application control policy that blocks third-party applications from running on a BlackBerry® device.
If a user connects a BlackBerry device that has third-party applications installed to a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, it does
not allow the third-party applications to run.
You can also set application control policies and apply them to trusted third-party applications to create an allowed
application list for specific application behavior.
If the default application control policy prevents all third-party applications from performing specific actions, you can also
use an allowed application list to allow applications to perform those actions.
For more information about making BlackBerry® Device Software and third-party applications available to users, see the
BlackBerry Enterprise Server System Administration Guide.
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