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Creating and configuring VPN profiles, Create a VPN profile

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Administration Guide Creating and configuring VPN profiles • If the Wi-Fi network includes a captive portal, verify that you changed the WLAN Enable Authentication Page option to True to permit users to access the captive portal using the WLAN Login browser on their BlackBerry devices. • To update the BlackBerry device information immediately, resend the IT policy to the BlackBerry device. Creating and configuring VPN profiles Wi-Fi® enabled BlackBerry® devices have built-in VPN clients that supports several types of VPN concentrators. To create a VPN profile, you configure the VPN configuration settings (for example, the IP address of the VPN concentrator, user names and passwords, and cryptographic methods that the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server uses) on a BlackBerry device or using a VPN profile or IT policy. You can assign one or more VPN profiles to a user account or to a group. If a user account has a VPN profile, you can associate the VPN profile with the Wi-Fi profile for the user account. Depending on your organization's security policy, you can save a user name and password to a BlackBerry device to prevent the BlackBerry device from prompting the user for the login information the first time (or each time) the BlackBerry device connects to the enterprise Wi-Fi network. Create a VPN profile 1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the BlackBerry solution management menu, expand Policy > WiFi configuration. 2. Click Create VPN profile. 3. In the Name field, type a name for the VPN profile. 4. Click Save. After you finish: Configure the VPN profile. Create a VPN profile based on an existing VPN profile 1. In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the BlackBerry solution management menu, expand Policy > WiFi configuration. 2. Click Manage VPN profiles. 3. Click the name of the VPN profile that you want to copy. 4. Click Copy profile. 5. Type a name for the new VPN profile. 6. Click Save. After you finish: Configure the VPN profile. 204

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If the Wi-Fi network includes a captive portal, verify that you changed the WLAN Enable Authentication Page
option to True to permit users to access the captive portal using the WLAN Login browser on their BlackBerry
devices.
To update the BlackBerry device information immediately, resend the IT policy to the BlackBerry device.
Creating and configuring VPN profiles
Wi-Fi® enabled BlackBerry® devices have built-in VPN clients that supports several types of VPN concentrators.
To create a VPN profile, you configure the VPN configuration settings (for example, the IP address of the VPN
concentrator, user names and passwords, and cryptographic methods that the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server uses)
on a BlackBerry device or using a VPN profile or IT policy. You can assign one or more VPN profiles to a user account
or to a group. If a user account has a VPN profile, you can associate the VPN profile with the Wi-Fi profile for the user
account.
Depending on your organization's security policy, you can save a user name and password to a BlackBerry device to
prevent the BlackBerry device from prompting the user for the login information the first time (or each time) the
BlackBerry device connects to the enterprise Wi-Fi network.
Create a VPN profile
1.
In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the
BlackBerry solution management
menu, expand
Policy > Wi-
Fi configuration
.
2.
Click
Create VPN profile
.
3.
In the
Name
field, type a name for the VPN profile.
4.
Click
Save
.
After you finish:
Configure the VPN profile.
Create a VPN profile based on an existing VPN profile
1.
In the BlackBerry® Administration Service, on the
BlackBerry solution management
menu, expand
Policy > Wi-
Fi configuration
.
2.
Click
Manage VPN profiles
.
3.
Click the name of the VPN profile that you want to copy.
4.
Click
Copy profile
.
5.
Type a name for the new VPN profile.
6.
Click
Save
.
After you finish:
Configure the VPN profile.
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