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Hotaru
Level 1.5: Cupcake
11 days ago

Impact of Intune's NFC restriction setting on IC card reading and Nearby Share

Hello, I'm managing Android Enterprise devices via Intune and would like to confirm the behavior of a specific device restriction setting related to NFC. ■ Device: AQUOS wish4 (Android), enroll...
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Moombas
Level 4.1: Jelly Bean
11 days ago

First of all, be aware that the Wish 4 seem not to be AER (i only see Aquos Wish without a number) which can cause problems in management possibilities.

 

I want to add here a description from the MS sides related this setting:

"Beam data using NFC (work-profile level): Block prevents using the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to beam data from apps. When set to Not configured (default), Intune doesn't change or update this setting. By default, the OS might allow using NFC to share data between devices."

So, apps can't share data via NFC Beam, which doesn't mean they can't read it or it in general is turned off.

 

I also see no option in our MDM to do so, only for (COPE (guess) and) fully managed devices if you have an OEM config app that has this option available for your devices (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.sharp.android.shoemconfig&hl=de).