Thanks Matt. It's good to know I'm not missing anything here and my understanding was indeed ok.
In terms of DO enrollment, it's the management of the Play Store that comes as the issue. We've always allowed the Play Store to be open and to suddenly close it off to approved apps only, along with the admin overhead of dealing with user requests for apps to be approved going forward, is the biggest deal breaker for DO. It's certainly not a full deal breaker of course but it does swerve us away from it somewhat.
Again am I missing something with DO, and could we effectively open the store up fully?
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Matt Wilsher
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed January 13, 2021 09:18 AM
From: Matt Shaver
Subject: Android Enterprise - Profile Owner enroll
Hi Matt,
PO is really targeted towards a BYOD demographic, so the Google account-to-Play Store workflow is a fundamental part of the process. You could have them sideload our agent, but that would probably be even more confusing if the user base isn't very technical.
Another option is what's called Work Profile on Corporate Owned (WPCO) - at a very broad level this is PO experience running on DO devices - it's a more streamlined enrollment process but the downside is that it's only available on Android 11+, which is still not available to a majority of the devices on the market.
Since you are enrolling from a factory reset state - are there any specific concerns that we can address as to why DO isn't being leveraged instead?
As for the DA to PO migrations - since the app is already installed on the device they won't have to go through any of the manual Google Play workflows, but it does require a bit of user interaction on the device. It's not something that can be done silently.
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Matt Shaver
System Architect
IBM
mshaver@us.ibm.com
Original Message:
Sent: Wed January 13, 2021 07:30 AM
From: Matt Wilsher
Subject: Android Enterprise - Profile Owner enroll
Hi folks - I'm working on the Android Enterprise roadmap for my business and looking at enrolling a device into Profile Owner from a factory reset, instead of Device Owner.
I'm comfortable with the process however the issue is having to use a Google account for the Play Store to download the MaaS360 app. While we could have an account per device/user, this gets clunky from a support and users perspective.
Is there any way to "silently" associate the AFW / AE account with the enrolment in the same way as enrolling as Device Owner achieves, so it's transparent to the user?
Also considering whether this will be an issue for us migrating DA to PO.
Thanks!
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Matt Wilsher - Head of Service Delivery
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