tOMPSON's blog » facebook http://dertompson.com some personal, more technical - by Thomas Einwaller Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:24:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Facebook 1.6 application and BlackBerry Enterprise Server http://dertompson.com/2009/07/07/facebook-1-6-application-and-blackberry-enterprise-server/ http://dertompson.com/2009/07/07/facebook-1-6-application-and-blackberry-enterprise-server/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:13:37 +0000 tompson http://dertompson.com/?p=778 color blackberryI am using the Facebook application on my BlackBerry Bold now for a long time … I think since the first version came out. Lately I upgraded to version 1.6 and I noticed that suddenly some of the features that were new in version 1.5 did not work anymore. I was not able to sync the contacts of the BlackBerry device with my Facebook friends and it was not possible to add events from Facebook to the BlackBerry calendar.

After some research I found out that there is a setting in the IT policy of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server named images“Disable Organizer Data Access for Social Networking Applications”
 that controls if applications like the Facebook application are allowed to access the calendar or the contacts of the BlackBerry device (see KB18427 for details).

We are using BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1.6 and this version does not include this setting so I had to use the instructions of KB15535 to import that policy direction into my server. After explicitly allowing the access to organizer data my Facebook application version 1.6 is now again able to sync my contacts.

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