Reactivate a device..............................................Page a device................................................Manage BlackBerry Unite! software features from your device............................About managing BlackBerry Unite! software features from your device............................. Delete all data from a user's device using your device..................................Change a user's device password from your device..................................
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Share contact information with other BlackBerry Unite! users..............................Media................................................About transferring pictures, music, and other files..................................Transfer files to your BlackBerry device from the BlackBerry Unite! software..........................Transfer files to the BlackBerry Unite! software from your BlackBerry device..........................Share a picture with other BlackBerry Unite! users..................................
About the BlackBerry Unite! software About the BlackBerry Unite! software The BlackBerry® Unite!™ software is an application that families and other groups can use to control and monitor BlackBerry device usage, share a calendar, share contacts, and transfer files to their BlackBerry devices.
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Getting Started Guide Installation and setup...
BlackBerry® 8800 smartphone • BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphone Internet access High-speed broadband connection. firewall or proxy If you install the BlackBerry Unite! software on a proxy server, the proxy server must be transparent. pop-up blockers Turn off any pop-up blocking software.
• To select a new installation folder, click Browse. Navigate to a folder. Click Install. 9. If you do not want to start the BlackBerry Unite! software right away, clear the Launch the BlackBerry Unite! check box. 10. Click Finish.
Add a user You can add a maximum of five users to the BlackBerry® Unite!™ software. By default, the first user that you add becomes the BlackBerry Unite! software administrator and can manage more BlackBerry Unite! software features from their device than other users.
6. Click Save. Manage the services available on a BlackBerry device If you select a service that is not supported on the BlackBerry® device or is not supported in your wireless carrier plan, the service will not work. This feature is not available if your device is associated with a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. For more information, contact your administrator.
You can use this configuration to access services from your wireless service provider. For example, you might be able to access web pages that enable you to subscribe to BlackBerry web push services or access ring tones. You can also browse the Internet using your device if the BlackBerry Unite! computer is turned off.
3. Click Usage Reports to view the phone logs. Restrict access to web sites This feature is not available if the BlackBerry® device is associated with a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. For more information, contact your administrator. For each user, you can deny or allow access to specific web sites and their web pages. By default, all web sites are allowed.
Loud, Vibrate, Quiet, Normal, Phone Only, and Off. You can set a notification profile exception on your device so that you are notified differently when you receive an email message from a user on the BlackBerry® Unite!™ software.
This feature is not available if the BlackBerry® device is associated with a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. For more information, contact your BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator. You can set a password, or change an existing one, to lock the BlackBerry device when it is not in use. In the BlackBerry® Unite!™ software, click Device Management.
You can disconnect the BlackBerry device from the computer. Page a device You can only perform this task if you are a BlackBerry® Unite!™ administrator. When you page a user's BlackBerry device, it beeps even if their notification is set to silent or vibrate.
If you are the BlackBerry Unite! software administrator, you can perform these tasks for other users. For example, if a user misplaces their device, the BlackBerry Unite! software administrator can page the device to help locate it, or if it cannot be found, change the device password, or delete all data from the device and disable all services.
Monitor a user's web usage from your device The user's device beeps for approximately 10 minutes. Within those 10 minutes, you can stop the page by clicking Cancel on the BlackBerry Unite! administrator's device. When the device is located, the user ends the page by clicking OK.
2. Click the red X next to the entry that you want to delete. Share a calendar entry with other BlackBerry Unite! users When you send a calendar entry from your BlackBerry® device to other users on your BlackBerry® Unite!™ software, the users receive an email notification for the shared calendar entry.
Contacts Add a contact You can add contacts that can be viewed by all users on their BlackBerry devices. Contacts are synchronized wirelessly to all user devices. You can switch the contact view to List View or Card View. In the BlackBerry® Unite!™ software, click Shared Contacts.
You need BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.2 or later. You can transfer files from a specific folder on your computer to a user's BlackBerry device. Any files added to one of these folders on the computer will be transferred to the user's device when it is connected to the computer using a USB cable, or connected to the home Wi- Fi®...
Add a file transfer folder By default, a file transfer folder that you can use to transfer files to and from your BlackBerry® device is created for each user on your computer at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Unite\username. During installation, a desktop shortcut to this folder is added.
Change file transfer settings Change file transfer settings You can increase the size limit for files that you transfer, or restrict the direction that files can be transferred (from your BlackBerry® device to your computer or from your computer to your device).
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