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Old 11-04-2009, 04:04 AM   #1
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Hey there, I've been doing some research on getting Google Maps on our company's Blackberries via BES. I'm BES Admin just to make sure you don't tell me to talk to the BES Admin ;).

In our corporate IT Policy under "Service Exclusivity policy group" > "Allow other Browser services" is set to false. We figured out that changing it to true solves our Google Maps problem (not receiving the map).

But in turn it enables Video-Streaming and MMS capabilities. We don't want our workers to be able to stream videos and send/receive MMS, but we also want them to be able to use Google Maps. Is there a workaround or a proper solution to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 11-05-2009, 10:26 AM   #2
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I set the policy you specified to false on my development BES. I am able to get the Google maps. It would seem the issue is that your network is not allowing browsing out from the BES/MDS server to the Google servers. Perhaps setting the policy back to false, and modifying your firewall/traffic filtering to allow outbound connections from the MDS server to the appropriate web services would meet your needs.
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Old 11-05-2009, 11:09 AM   #3
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I too have google maps working through the MDS browser, other browser services are blocked and it works fine. it just worked, didn't have to do anything special.

could be firewall or something else on box running the MDS.
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Old 11-10-2009, 02:40 AM   #5
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Okay, I'll see what I can do with the Firewall .

Thanks for helping me
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If you still need help with this ...doesnt it help to set "disable mms" to "yes" in "common policy group" ? . Regarding the mms problem, no idea about the video streaming. would be interesting if you found a solution meanwhile.
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