Blackberry App For Mac

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Research In Motion plans to release a version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac users, desktop software that syncs Apple computers with BlackBerry devices, on Oct. 2 at 1 p.m. EDT.

  • User-friendly and quite useful software solution for BlackBerry content management. Evidently, in order to get started taking advantage of what this app has to offer, you must first establish a connection between your Mac and BlackBerry phone via Wi-Fi or USB, and, once this is done, you will be prompted.
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Once released, the application will be available on this site. 'BlackBerry Desktop Manager software is designed to run on Mac computers with Mac OS 10.5.5 and higher and supports BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS 4.2 and higher,' RIM said in a news release Sept. 30.

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The BlackBerry Desktop Manager version for Macs will allow users to sync data between their BlackBerrys and Mac applications such as iCal, Address Book and Microsoft Entourage. It will also allow users to add and remove programs, encrypt files, install software updates on their mobile devices and schedule automatic backups.

In addition, the application integrates BlackBerry Media Sync, allowing users to port their iTunes music collections to their BlackBerrys by selecting the desired playlists and songs.

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Previously, BlackBerry users had to rely on PocketMac for BlackBerry, which offered synchronization with iTunes, Mail.app, Contacts and Entourage. The new offering may be seen as a more robust application, although RIM offered free support for PocketMac for BlackBerry when it was Mac owners' only alternative.

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Inside BlackBerry, the official BlackBerry blog, has been trumpeting the upcoming Mac support since July.

Although BlackBerry Desktop Manager closely integrates BlackBerry smartphones with Macs, RIM and Apple are definitely competing for a share of the mobile-device space. Apple recently announced that customers have downloaded more than 2 billion Apps from the App Store since its opening in July 2008, a number that puts it well ahead of RIM's BlackBerry App World. Microsoft, Google, Nokia and Palm have also been formulating plans for catching up to Apple, which now boasts an ecosystem of 85,000 Apps.

Despite the BlackBerry's reputation as an enterprise-oriented device, RIM has been making strategic moves to meet an increasing consumer demand for smartphones. During a June earnings call, co-CEO Jim Balsillie claimed that his company's customer base is now evenly split between consumer and business clients; during the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, about 80 percent of the company's new customers were consumers as opposed to enterprise or small and midsize business clients.

In that spirit, some of BlackBerry's newest offerings have veered away from purely business functions. On Sept. 30, a Tivo application for BlackBerry made its debut, allowing users to program their digital video recorders directly from their smartphones. The Tivo DVR Scheduler mimics the Tivo DVR interface.

Each release consists of new and enhanced features and resolved and known issues in the Desktop App. The following sections provide an overview of these changes for each release.
  • : When attempting to install the Mac client installer package while running macOS Catalina, a dialog with the following error appears: 'AtHoc ADC Installer_signed.pkg can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.' To work around this issue and continue with the installation, right-click the installer package and select
    Open with
     > .
  • : The desktop app was updated to ignore any trailing characters in a certificate format by using a client regular expression. The client regular expression can be configured in the
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     management system. For more information, see 'Assign authentication methods to applications' in the
    Desktop App Installation and Configuration Guide
    .
  • : The session limit per user has been restricted to ten sessions. If a user reaches the maximum number of allowed sessions, the following error is displayed: The max limit of sessions has be reached. Release other desktop sessions to create new one.
: If an alert template includes a map, an image of the map is included in desktop alerts. All out of the box desktop delivery templates include a map. The map is included in the delivered alert if the following conditions are met:
  • Your system has this feature enabled for the given organization.
  • Desktop or email is targeted.
  • An out of the box delivery template or a new custom delivery template is used.
The map that is included in an email or desktop alert is not interactive. The alert recipient cannot zoom in or out on the map. Clicking on the map image opens the alert recipient's Self Service Inbox. Any map objects defined in the publisher map are included in the map image in a zoom-to-fit fashion.
Alerts sent through the management system, the SDK publisher, Integrated Weather Alerts, and Connect can include a map image.
: The latest desktop client is required if you are connecting to a regionalized PSS system.
: In Mac Version 1.5.0, when customers migrated to a different organization or server the Mac client did not accept the new settings packaged with the installer. In Mac Version 1.6.0, a configuration option was added when creating the Mac clients to clear out or retain all old settings. If a customer is pointing the Mac client to a new environment, they should choose the option to clear all old settings.
: In Mac Version 1.6.0, the Desktop App logo was updated to a new
BlackBerry AtHoc
logo. User interface strings were also updated from 'IWSAlerts' to ' or '
AtHoc
.': In previous MacOS releases, customers could choose to have the desktop client automatically connect to
AtHoc
by username. In Windows release 6.2.x.270, support for sign-on with an LDAP attribute was introduced. Mac version 1.5.0 introduces single sign-on with an LDAP attribute parity with Windows.
MacOS must be connected to a domain, and the user must sign in with a network account before sign-on with an LDAP attribute can be used.
To use the single sign-on feature, Administrators must complete the following steps.
For Release 7.5 or later release:
  1. Navigate to the screen in the BlackBerry AtHoc management system.
  2. In the section, click
    User authentication
    .
  3. On the window, in the
    Enabled Authentication Methods
     section, select the check box.
  4. Click .
For
BlackBerry AtHoc
Release 7.4 or earlier release:
  1. Navigate to the screen in the
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     management system.
  2. In the section, click
    Organization Settings
    .
  3. On the screen, click the
    User Authentication & SDK
     tab.
  4. In the field, select
    Auto Login
    , and then select .
  5. In the text-entry field below the option, enter the Active Directory attribute you want clients to use for authentication. For example, mail.
  6. Click .
When the client starts, it receives directions from the server about the LDAP attribute to use. The client then queries Active Directory for the value of that attribute for the local user. In order for the client to query Active Directory, users must have at least read-only permission to their Active Directory. The client then sends the value of the designated attribute to the server. The server then searches for a user by matching the value of the designated attribute against the Mapping ID field. If a match is made, the client is connected to the user record in the system and the user can then receive the alerts that are targeted to them.
  • If the LDAP attribute values have not been synchronized into the mappingID field, or if the value is not matched to an existing user in , a new user is created.
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  • If the client cannot query Active Directory, it waits until it can. The client also caches the designated attribute and uses the cached version if the lookup fails.
: Before the Mac 1.5.0 release, the Mac client did not recognize if it was connected to a domain. The Mac client would create user accounts with no domain name. For example, /username. This caused issues in customer environments with both Windows and Mac clients. The server could incorrectly create multiple user accounts in
BlackBerry AtHoc
for the same user, if that user logged in from both a Mac and a Windows client. Additionally, the server could not differentiate between two users with the same username used in two different domains.
MacOS must be connected to a domain, and the user must sign in with a network account before sign-on with domain/username can be used.
Mac Client 1.4.0 is compatible with IWS 87CP1 and above.
  • BlackBerry AtHoc
    : The nine supported languages and locales are English (US), English (UK), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), French (France), French (Canada), Dutch (Netherlands), German (Germany), and Italian (Italy).
  • can now be installed on non-English versions of Mac.
  • Support for macOS Sierra version 10.12 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • :
    BlackBerry AtHoc
     icons change when the user is in Dark Mode
  • Support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks was removed.
Mac Client 1.3.0 is compatible with IWS 6.1.8.85R3SP1 and above.
  • Support for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Support for Client Manual Registration through organization code
  • A welcome message to the new user upon new client registration
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • End of support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Blackberry Work App

  • Support for Mac OS X 10.5.5+ Leopard