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messaging server continues to receive, deliver, and store all corporate email messages, while the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server acts as a conduit to transfer these messages to and from the BlackBerry device.
BlackBerry configuration database
The BlackBerry services that do not connect to the messaging server directly access the configuration
information that a SQL database (the BlackBerry configuration database) stores. BlackBerry services that might
otherwise require access to the messaging server can access encryption keys and passwords through the
BlackBerry configuration database to perform many tasks.
The BlackBerry configuration database stores the following information:
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server names
• unique SRP authentication keys and unique SRP IDs, or UIDs, that each BlackBerry Enterprise Server uses in
the SRP authentication process to establish a connection to the wireless network
• IT policy private keys of the IT policy public and private key pair that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
generates for each BlackBerry device
• PIN of each BlackBerry device
• read-only copies of each unique BlackBerry device master encryption key
• user lists
• information contained in the message header that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server sends, for example,
message ID, date, and message status, (BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino only)
• a semi-permanent reference to user data using the GroupWise MessageID in the MBMailSync,
MBCalendarSync, MBPIMSync, and MBFolderSync database synchronization tables (BlackBerry Enterprise
Server for Novell GroupWise only)
Protecting the BlackBerry configuration database
Your environment might benefit from configuring the Microsoft SQL Server for optimal security of the BlackBerry
configuration database and protection of the stored user encryption keys.
Configuration option Recommendations
shield your Microsoft SQL
Server installation from
Internet-based attacks
• Require Windows Authentication Mode for connections to Microsoft
SQL Server to restrict connections to Microsoft Windows® user and
domain user accounts and enable credentials delegation.
Note: Windows Authentication Mode eliminates the need to store
passwords on the client side. However, if you are running BlackBerry MDS
Services, your SQL server must support Mixed Mode authentication.
• Use Windows security enforcement mechanisms such as stronger
authentication protocols and mandatory password complexity and
expiration.
password-protect the service
account
• Assign a string password to your sa account, even on servers that
require Windows Authentication.
Note: A string password is designed to prevent exposure of a blank or weak
sa password if the server is ever reconfigured for Mixed Mode
Authentication.
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