During the installation of our BlackBerry Enterprise Server in Chapter 1, Introduction to BES 5, we chose to install the MDS components. We need to ensure that the MDS service is running in our environment. This can be checked by going to services on the server that hosts the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and ensuring that the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and BlackBerry MDS Integration Service are started, as shown in the following screenshot:
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