MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Mobile Design and Administration Guide Administering MicroStrategy Mobile 3
Receives reports and documents from Intelligence Server, and
delivers them to the iPhone, iPad, Android device, or BlackBerry
Enterprise Server (BES).
The BES handles all interaction between MicroStrategy Mobile Server
and the BlackBerry devices, and may encrypt the data transmitted to
the devices.
Installing and configuring Mobile Server
To install MicroStrategy Mobile Server, select the MicroStrategy Mobile
Server component of MicroStrategy Mobile during your MicroStrategy
installation. For system requirements and specific instructions on how to
install or upgrade MicroStrategy, see either the MicroStrategy Installation
and Configuration Guide or the MicroStrategy Upgrade Guide.
MicroStrategy Mobile affects several specific areas that may require an
administrator’s attention. These include:
• Authentication settings for the Mobile Server application, page 115
• Privileges and permissions, page 116
• SSL encryption, page 117
• Client authentication with a certificate server, page 117
• Destination folder for the Photo Uploader widget, page 122
Authentication settings for the Mobile Server application
The
following instructions apply only to authenticating the Mobile
Server application on the machine that it runs on. For instructions on
setting up user authentication for your MicroStrategy environment,
such as LDAP or single sign-on authentication, refer to the
MicroStrategy System Administration Guide.
If you are using the ASP.NET version of Mobile Server, make sure that you
configure the IIS authentication settings for the Mobile Server application.
Otherwise certain reports and documents may display incorrectly or fail to
execute.
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