MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

Mobile Design and Administration Guide Administering MicroStrategy Mobile 3
Installing the application on multiple devices simultaneously
If you have administrator access to your company's BlackBerry Enterprise
Server (BES), you can use the BES to push the MicroStrategy Mobile
application to the devices that require it. This is the recommended method of
installing the application for several reasons:
• The application can be quickly installed on multiple devices
simultaneously, instead of having to be installed on each device
individually.
• Updates to the application can be easily distributed to all users.
• Control over which users have installed the application is fully in the
hands of the administrator.
• IT policies that control Mobile Server, authentication information, and BI
applications can be configured and enforced without requiring end-user
interaction. For information on configuring IT Policies over the BES, see
Configuring multiple devices automatically, page 164.
Distributing the application to users by means of the BES takes between
three and four hours. For detailed instructions on how to deploy an
application using the BES, see the documentation provided with the BES.
Installing the application from a website
If you are unable to install the application by means of the BES, you can set
up an internal website containing the MicroStrategy Mobile application
installation package. Mobile device users can then individually download
and install the MicroStrategy Mobile application by pointing the BlackBerry
Browser to the website.
The files for browser-based deployment are stored in a subdirectory of the
default installation directory: \BlackBerry Client for Browser
Deployment. Multiple versions of these files are available for various
BlackBerry operating systems. Each version consists of several Java .cod
files and a .jad file. In addition, the directory contains two web pages,
installMSTRMobile.aspx and installMSTRMobile.jsp. The user
opens one of these files in the BlackBerry Browser to install the application.
To configure the MicroStrategy Mobile application for browser-based
deployment, the web server administrator places the application files on the
web server and installs either installMSTRMobile.aspx (for a
.NET-based web server) or installMSTRMobile.jsp (for a J2EE-based
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