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[Announcement] Launching Android Enterprise Insiders & Registration

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Lizzie
Google Community Manager
3 days ago

Hey everyone,

We're pleased to announce a brand new initiative built exclusively for you, the members of the Android Enterprise Customer Community: Android Enterprise Insiders!

What is the Android Enterprise Insiders Program?
In short, it’s your opportunity to get hands on with Android Enterprise features before they are generally available or when they are hot off the press.

As an Insider, you will:

  • Get hands on with new functionality.
  • Share your feedback to help us identify improvements to the feature or documentation.
  • Collaborate with your peers, exploring the new features of Android device management.

 

Why Are We Launching This Program?
You are the experts on the front lines, managing mobility for your organizations every single day. Your insights and real world experience are invaluable. We want to build a stronger partnership with you and create a direct channel for your feedback on specific features.

The Android Enterprise Insiders program is our way of moving beyond traditional feedback collection. It’s a dedicated board within the Customer Community designed to give you early access to new features and a seat at the table as we refine them. Together, we can ensure that the future of Android Enterprise is powerful, practical, and perfectly suited to your needs.

What Can You Expect?
In early September we’ll be launching a dedicated space right here in the community for our Insiders. Here’s a high-level look at how it will work:

Access to Insiders: Once you are an Insider you will have access to a dedicated Insiders discussion area, which will act as your home for the programme and you can meet other members there.

Apply for Initiatives: When a new feature is ready for testing, we’ll post about the opportunity. You can then express interest to participate in that specific initiative.

Get Hands On: Approved applicants will be granted access to a private project area. There, you'll find everything you need to get started, including onboarding guides and testing instructions. Please note: Depending on the feature, an NDA may be required.

Share Your Voice: You can create posts to share feedback and report issues. We may also host office hours and other online sessions to discuss the features in more detail.

Who Is This For?
We're looking for any IT admin who manages an Android Enterprise deployment. While the overall program is open to everyone, specific testing opportunities may have certain requirements (e.g. using a particular EMM partner, a specific device type, or enrolment method).

This is why keeping your community profile up-to-date is important! It will help us match you with the Insider opportunities that are most relevant to your deployment and interests.

Ready to Become an Insider? Here’s how to get started

  • Update your community profile! Critically, we need your Android Enterprise Org ID. This is the most important step to ensure we can invite you to relevant programs down the line.
  • Like or comment on this post. This way we’ll know you're interested in participating.


We hope this sounds like an exciting initiative and thank you for being a part of this community, we look forward to further collaborating with you!


The Android Enterprise Team

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8 Comments

  • mattdermody's avatar
    mattdermody
    Level 2.3: Gingerbread
    3 days ago

    VERY Interested. 

     

    Not sure if it matters but I have ~150 Org Ids across all of the different environments I manage. I can put an Org Id from one of my test EMM environments but I don't think that's going to be representative of the scale of environments that I interact with. 

  • jasonbayton's avatar
    jasonbayton
    Level 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich
    3 days ago

     

    • jasonbayton's avatar
      jasonbayton
      Level 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich
      3 days ago

      To echo Matt, I have all the EMMs across a bajillion orgIDs, so for me it'd be easier to decline some explicitly than opt for an invite based on a limited input in the profile.

  • Moombas's avatar
    Moombas
    Level 4.1: Jelly Bean
    2 days ago

    Very interested in it, OrgId already in profile.

    One question just coming up in my mind. We use an MDM, do these new functionalities depend on MDM able to support those new features as well in order to use them?

  • Lizzie's avatar
    Lizzie
    Google Community Manager
    2 days ago

    Great to hear your responses to AE Insiders mattdermody​, jasonbayton​, Moombas​

     

    Regarding your question Moombas, each project will be different, and on the whole we hope that anyone who is an Insider and is interested in the feature will be able to test it. But, some projects may be more suited to specific setups for testing/roll-out and so this might be EMM/MDM specific. These requirement details will be outline when the project is announced in the Insiders area. 

     

    Hopefully that helpful, but feel free to ask more questions. 

     

    Thanks,

    Lizzie

  • Rakib's avatar
    Rakib
    Level 2.3: Gingerbread
    23 hours ago

    Is Org ID something thats viewable for other members of this community or only for Google, it isn´t something we want to share to everyone.

    • Moombas's avatar
      Moombas
      Level 4.1: Jelly Bean
      22 hours ago

      You can check it yourself ;)

      Open for ex. my profile and I'm pretty sure you won't find mine there and i would wonder if something like that is not private.

      • Rakib's avatar
        Rakib
        Level 2.3: Gingerbread
        20 hours ago

        I just saw that you used Soti :)

        Have added Org ID now :)