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• BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
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• BlackBerry Client for IBM Sametime
• BlackBerry Client for Novell GroupWise Messenger
The BlackBerry Collaboration Service sends instant messages between your organization's instant messaging server,
BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and devices using public APIs, a Research In Motion proprietary protocol, and protocols that
IBM, Microsoft, and Novell specify.
Instant messaging features
Using the collaboration clients on their BlackBerry devices, users can use many of the same features that are available in
the instant messaging applications on their computers.
Feature Description
session management You can specify the number of simultaneous instant messaging sessions that
the BlackBerry Collaboration Service supports. You can also specify a timeout
threshold, after which the BlackBerry Collaboration Service ends inactive
sessions automatically and permits new sessions to start.
You can control whether users of specific versions of the BlackBerry Client for
IBM Sametime or the BlackBerry Client for Novell GroupWise Messenger can
see an icon on their BlackBerry devices when contacts in their contact lists are
using the same collaboration clients. By default, the icon appears.
conversations with multiple contacts Users can start and manage conversations with multiple instant messaging
contacts on their BlackBerry devices.
availability status Users can change their availability status when they are logged in to their
collaboration clients. For example, users can set their availability status to away
or busy.
presence updates Using the latest versions of the collaboration clients, users can set their
availability status to display as away if they do not use their BlackBerry devices
for a specified period of time.
access levels Using the latest version of the BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007, users can set the access level of contacts in their
contact lists. Each access level consists of rules that define how contacts can
interact with a user through the instant messaging application. For example,
users can assign the Personal access level to their contacts.
contact pictures Using the latest versions of the collaboration clients, users can add pictures to
the contacts in their contact lists. The pictures that users add using the
collaboration clients on their BlackBerry devices are not synchronized with the
instant messaging applications on users' computers.
Feature and Technical Overview BlackBerry Enterprise Server components and features
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